From Voodoo to Christ

I am posting the YouTube video from Loving Hands Ministry of their coverage of Haitian President René Préval's call to fasting and prayer in Port Au Prince on February 12th. If you have ever been to Haiti, you will appreciate how incredulous was the of canceling the annual Mardi Gras celebration, which actually lasts for weeks on end, starting during January of every year, and stretching out until March. I have been in Haiti twice during the month of January and have witnessed some of these 'celebrations'. They are headed by painted witch doctors and voodoo priests, and are nothing more than drunkenness, drug and sexual orgies. Crowds chant and dance down the streets, and like a rolling snowball picking up more snow, more crazed people press into the moving crowd and join in. I was once caught in one of these crowds with 4 others in a car. That's another story....... but boy was it an hair raising adventure! I could literally hear and feel the oppressive evilness crackling through the air. To have the president make such an overt call to the true God is nothing short of phenomenal. Hit the 'pause' button on the Tinker Tunes music player to the right, and enjoy this video..............

Haiti

Our hearts go out to the thousands of hurting, grieving Haitians after the Tuesday evening 7.0 earthquake that devastated Port au Prince. Already a struggling country, the capitol and largest city of Haiti collapsed, leaving an estimated 45-50,000 people dead in its wake, with an untold amount injured.

This photo was taken on my first medical trip to Haiti in 1993. Though the good folk of that country always hope for better, they struggle daily just to stay alive. That is a successful day for them. Ill health, starvation and gunfire claim many lives every day. Our hearts should go out to them even without this added tragedy of unspeakable horror.

Let's count our own blessings, as we remember the survivors in our prayers.