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Sunday, 14 February 2010 00:00

This is going to be short as it is close to midnight and we just finished what we could of the water system at the orphanage with the help of the other men on the team. Needless to say it was another long day for Team Haiti.

The medical folks held a clinic for the towns folks today and the Canadian Military came by with food boxes for about four hundred families which we were able to distribute as well.

It is remarkable how many countries are helping in this effort. I have seen Peru, Canada, Cuba, Switzerland and Argentina to name just a few. One thing new I learned today is that the US's OSHA is the governing body in disasters all over the world when the country will accept outside help...and they seem to opperate quite efficeintly.

We have been hearing from several different sources how the American media is spinning the Haitian call to fasting and prayer. One report we heard was that it is three days of morning for closure. Another said it is an effort by the "religious types" to impose an opportunistic revival.

Let me set the record straight in no uncertian terms. This is a call by Christian Haitian leaders to turn toward God and the country is listening. First of all the country has already gone through it's three days of mourning a few weeks ago. Secondly there is no way enough Creole speaking American evangelists could get down here and get this organized while this country is in this level of chaos. Finally, I witnessed with my own eyes the TENS Of THOUSANDS of people in full contact-hands-raised-dancin'-in-the-streets-singing-at-the-top-of-their-l
ungs worship. The pastors here laugh at the notion that it is anything other than what I have told you. You go God!

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I am copping out here because it is almost 12:30am and I forgot to interview sombody else. I have a beautiful wife (happy valentines day, babe) three children that I am very proud of and own my own business in my home state of Indiana. If you want to know anything else, check my website- I'm going to bed.(told you I was copping out:-)