Monday, March 22 Report from Haiti DR Team #3

Dear Friends,

Hello. I am sending you information regarding Haiti DR - team #3 members are:

Jerry Legg, Team leder - 1st Baptist- Dyer, Tennessee
Roger Mason - Hermitage Hills Baptist Church

Don Kohonski - Hermitage Hills Baptist Church

1st Day - arrived 2:30 pm - hot and windy - met with the previous DR team - informed us of what to expect - Jack was right - if you need to lose weight -come to Haiti. Worked picking up garbage off the floor of the medical warehouse. It had rained 2 days ago and the cardboard had disintegrated into the mud and the tarp that they had placed on the dirt floor to keep from wading in mud.

Everything is dusty and dirty - boxes of medical supplies are protected by just a tarp that makes up the sides of the warehouse. They have had to put a deterent (barbed wire in rolls) to prevent Haitians from stealing the supplies.

Let me tell you that cold shower sure was a God send - I felt like a million dollars for about 1 hour. Ha ha!!! I did eat a meal from the food mobile and it was ok - I think it was spaghetti and I hope the meat was chicken - but who knows.

There was a breeze last night - it is hard to sleep when airplanes are coming in and out of the airport all night - the doctors and nurses have a place they can relieve some of their tensions of the day and guess what, it is outside my tent. (but that is ok) I know why they have such stress. I saw it first hand today (2nd Day) at the hospital the Haitians are in a tent - no dividers and you see amputees, people with AIDS, tuberculosis and one young girl had a broken back - she could not move her legs. Jerry and I stopped to talk with a lady whose mother was in the hospital and she shook our hands and said God Bless you for coming to help us. Very few could speak English - there were interpreters to help. Jerry prayed and I shook hands and hugged those that were sitting with their families in the hosptial. Jerry said that one Haitian had accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior yesterday. That Gentleman was All Smiles Today!!

We are down to 1 meal a day - but the other team members said that we could go to the UN to purchase real food - I might try that one day when I am not so tired. (the heat will zap you)!

I will send more information in 2 days - please continue to pray for all of us here - and especially for the Haitians.

Pray that God will send these supplies - they are in great demand:

• Ensure
• heel warmers
• diaper scale to weigh premies
• white foam for KCI Vacs
• Y Connectors for KCI Vacs
• Pediatric feeding tubes SFR 8FR
• Adult Diapers.

Well that's all for now -

God Bless All of You,

Gail Hudgens