This past week I was in Guatemala with my good friend and pastor of Thomas Road Baptist Church Jonathan Falwell.  He led a group of ladies from Thomas Road to serve at Hope of Life, our partner in Guatemala.

When Jonathan was a student at Liberty University I was leading mission trips. He and I traveled to many countries together back then. It was great to travel with him once again and for him to lead this time.

The ladies that traveled to Guatemala were instrumental in raising the funds for clean water wells.  They were incredibly excited to see the wells that they provided and to watch as they were dedicated.

One village where these wells were dedicated is different than many because it stretches along both sides of a railroad track for over a mile. It is incredibly poor. There is no electricity ...

Cristo para Cuba (Christ for Cuba).  I actually saw this on a bumper sticker on an antique car in Havana.

It is God’s time in Cuba and something incredible is about to happen.

There are still Cubans who, believe it or not, don’t know who Jesus Christ is. I’m not exaggerating. When asked, some Cubans will actually reply that they have never heard of Jesus Christ and that the only Jesus (“Hey-soos”) they know lives in their village.           

Think about it for a moment. It’s heartbreaking to know people who live as close as 90 miles from America don’t know there is a God who loves them and sent His Son to die for them.

But I have spent the last week in Cuba with over 700 church planters and pastors who are dedicated to changing that.  They gathered together in one place for church planting training.  ...

There are times when God can open your eyes so clearly to a need, that there is no doubt action is needed.

100 miles northeast from Port-au-Prince lies a border town. The Haitian side is called Ouanaminthe.  Here, the Massacre River divides Haiti from the Dominican Republic. I walked across this border and river just last week. The name of the river seemed to sum up what this city resembles.

Only rickety wooden stalls and massive piles of garbage break a barren dry landscape. Acrid smoke from burning trash consumes the air.  Hundreds gather at the shores of the river to bathe, wash clothes, and gather water for cooking and cleaning. Over 80 percent here live in abject poverty. It is desperately poor, unsanitary, and so in need of compassion.

Danita Estrella recognized this need over 10 years ago.  A Puerto Rican living in Orlando, Florida, she ...

She never thought that surviving the earthquake would be the easy part. But now, as the temperatures rise to the upper 90s with intense humidity, dehydration is slowing taking her life.  She has survived days with intermittent food, but she can’t last much longer without a sustained supply of clean water.  Her tongue is swollen, her throat is on fire, and she has no energy to work or even move.

This is the story for thousands and thousands of Haitians and their critical need is clean water.
  
For those trapped in tent cities with nowhere else to go, the only running water is in the gutter that flows with trash and raw sewage. I saw children filling empty bottles with this water and cringed at the thought that they would be drinking filth and disease.
 
Water is also needed in the outlying areas of Port-au-Prince ...

I just returned from Haiti last week. I came back to a nation still digging their way out from the devastation. Every Haitian bears the scars of the earthquake. Many walk the streets on crutches, missing a leg.  Bandages, casts, and slings are as common as the collapsed houses.

All have suffered emotionally. Hundreds of thousands are overwhelmed with grief.  They have no advocates, counselors, or assistance. An entire city suffers from Post Traumatic Stress.

The voices of Haiti are still crying out.

This week World Help delivered another 40-foot container loaded with supplies. It drove straight into Port-au-Prince with hundreds of large family tents, cots, wheelbarrows, shovels, and other tools. Our team personally delivered these right into the hands of our partners, needy families, and orphaned children. So far we have shipped or airlifted more than 20 containers and 14 more waiting to go out.  ...

I have spent the last couple days with our team on the ground in Haiti overseeing the distribution of the food, water, medicine, and supplies we have sent.  We went to our warehouse and confirmed that these supplies had arrived and are being distributed to the people who need them the most.  We also spent an entire day at the airport to make sure all the shipments we airlifted had also arrived and were distributed.

The devastation is unbelievable.  Yesterday I saw a hospital that had caved in during the earthquake and killed 400 people.  300 of those were children.  Witnesses told me that for days, they could hear their cries and could do nothing about it.  It made me thankful that we are helping to provide for 400 newly orphaned children.

Today, I was invited to a meeting with the Haitian President’s Chief of Staff, some of his Cabinet ...

I spoke at Liberty University's Convocation on Friday morning. We showed World Help's video on Haiti to thousands of students. I also challenged them to do something for the desperate nation. 

If you click on the following link it will take you to a full length article. Liberty has already pledged to support 17 Haitian orphans and that is just the beginning of their support.

http://tinyurl.com/ycdnh96

I walked the streets of Port-au-Prince and all I saw was the utter destruction of an entire nation—a nation that has lost everything.  The latest estimates are that 150,000 people are dead, 1.5 million people are homeless, and 3 million have been affected by this earthquake.

But as I looked around me, amidst the devastation, I saw a people who are trying . . . a people who want to rise up and rebuild their nation.  In fact, on each city block, I saw people digging with their bare hands.  Some were using plastic plates to dig.  They are desperate to help.  They are desperate to find the bodies of their loved ones.  And they are desperate to rebuild.

One man told me that as thankful as he was for the food and water we were sending, there is just as great a need for tools and small equipment ...

I wanted  to email all of you and give an update on my trip to Haiti.
 
I traveled there with four other men and we returned late on Friday.  I am physically and emotionally exhausted from everything  I experienced there.
 
The death, destruction and chaos were overwhelming.  Although I have been many times to poverty stricken countries and have responded to other natural disasters, I have never experienced anything that can compare to what I saw last week in Haiti. The smell of death was everywhere. I saw bodies being loaded into a dumpster and others loaded into a dump truck.  Everywhere I looked there was death and destruction.  It was like a war zone.  I was prepared for it to be bad, but not that bad.  
 
I witnessed so many children who are now orphaned, many of them badly injured.  Other children were ...

 I hope this story impacts you as much as it did me.

Trapped beneath the remains of her home, a nine-year-old girl could be heard begging for rescue yesterday as neighbours clawed at sand and debris with their bare hands.

It had been two days since the earthquake collapsed the cinderblock home in Port-au-Prince, trapping Haryssa Keem Clerge inside the basement. Friends and neighbours braved aftershocks to climb over the rubble, one of hundreds of toppled structures teetering on the side of a ravine.

The city is full of people desperate for more help than neighbours can muster, and it never came for Haryssa.

Just hours after her screams renewed the hopes of rescuers yesterday, her lifeless body was finally pulled from the mass of concrete and twisted metal. It was wrapped in a green bath towel and placed in a drawer. There was nowhere ...