Messages From Haiti; Compassion Advocate Dave McCormick

TheCypressTimes.com ^ | 01/15/2010 | Staff

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During the quake, our three-year-old grandson told his mom that he thought a train was coming through their house. Our son’s reaction was that he knew something bad had happened but not until Wednesday morning did they know that something REALLY BAD had happened.

Indeed, something REALLY BAD had happened. Having served on many mission trips to Haiti the area of the REALLY BAD was a very familiar place. I have walked on those streets, shopped in the stores and visited the Compassion country office that was right in the midst of the devastation. I could mentally picture these houses and buildings built on top of one another just crumbling into piles of wreckage on top of thousands of our Haitian friends.

I received the following e-mail from Pastor Jean Kely Piard,

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PS – As I finished writing I had a call from a Haitian friend. He had spoken to his brother in PAP. He said the pictures that you are seeing on TV are nothing. The reporters have not been able to get into the worst areas.