January 13, 2010
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Thank you for everyone’s concern. Most communication is down. We have not been able to contact our Haitian administrator, Lussade Eugene, and we are concerned for the schools. Unfortunately the schools are in the worst areas and the buildings are not much. Pastor Mark’s school is within a mile of the earthquakes center. Pastor Peti Noel’s school is in a very poor section of Petionville. All reports from Petionville are not good.
We have received only one e-mail from some friends that live up the mountain, close to our old home and sort of close to Lussade.
We feel very helpless at this time. There is not much we can do, even at best. We are also in Mexico right now.
We will try and update when we can
Thank you and pray for Haiti!
Because of Christ, Ken
e-mail from our friends, David and Ann Farquharson
We are all OK and those who are close to us are also fine. There is a LOT of
damage and will undoubtedly be a great many casualties. My assistant Desir
arrived here a few minutes ago and said he saw Caribbean Market (the
largest, fanciest store in the country) had been flattened. He passed it a
few minutes after the main shock. It is ALWAYS packed at that time of the
afternoon so will have many deaths and injuries – almost all will be in the
elite classes and the UN people here in the country. We were near the sand
mines below our place at the time of the main shock and it looked like the
whole two mile length of the cliffs collapsed. There are many hundreds of
people working there.
Lots of rumors but not much we can confirm at the moment. Cannot get through
to anyone on the cell phones as they are jammed solid. No electricity
anywhere except for people like us who have inverters and generators. Shock
happened just before dark so things are proceeding in pitch black – solid
cloud cover as well. Many aftershocks – they had been coming every ten to
fifteen minutes but just a little bit ago we had three almost one after
another. Ann is the fastest one among us at jumping and running for a door.
Just had the biggest one yet – 4th in about 5 minutes. Most unsettling.
Pray for us, and in particular, pray for those who surround us and have much
greater problems than we do.
David and Ann Farquharson
