Pray for Haiti

Please remember to pray for Haiti. This is where our pastor and 3 other church members were supposed to be flying into on Tuesday morning, but the airlines were shut down. We are thankful for their safety, and pray for the safety and well being of all affected by hurricane Gustav.

Here are few blurbs I found in the news:

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Hurricane Gustav triggered flooding and landslides that killed at least 5 people in Haiti before weakening to a tropical storm.

Gustav's immediate threat to Haiti's 9 million people was heavy rainfall. Haiti is vulnerable to deadly mudslides and flash floods because its hillsides have been stripped of trees by residents who use the wood as cooking fuel.

Rising water threatened Haiti's crops amid protests over high food prices, and oil prices rose on fears the storm could batter oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.

The storm lingered into the night over Haiti's poor, deforested southern peninsula, and water levels were rising in banana, bean and vegetable fields. One man was killed in a landslide in the mountain town of Benet, civil protection director Marie Alta Jean-Baptiste told Radio Metropole.

Cars pushed through standing water in the streets of Port-au-Prince, as fallen trees and landslides blocked a major road out of the capital.

Please remember Haiti!