So it looks like this is our last post from Haiti. We hope to fly from here to the Dominican Republic sometime tomorrow and then make our way home over the weekend.

Today was the last day in the clinic. I had to call the helicopter in to fly a lady out who needed leg amputation. They were actually talking of doing it in the clinic in order to save her life but we were afraid she would not survive without follow up and we were short some of the tools we needed. It would have been like operating in a MASH set up but in alot worse conditions. It was a challenge to get the helicopter and it made me appreciate the red phone at the hospital that we just pick up and they come.

This afternoon we went into downtown Port Au Prince. I can't even begin to describe the destruction. Just take what you have seen on TV and multiply it farther than you can imagine. Where they will even begin to clean up yet alone start over is difficult to figure. The number of buried dead and unaccounted for has to be in thousands. The thing that struck me was the pride that the Haitian people that we had with us still had in their country. They have lost all but still have a hope and a determination to rebuild. We are not talking a few days or years to rebuild but probably decades. There is no place to even clear the rubble let alone to rebuild.

While sitting on the roof tonight enjoying the quiet we could hear a man give a very deep and long belly laugh. In the midst of living in absolute destruction he could still laugh.

Our verse for this trip was Isaiah 40:31 " he will lift you up as on eagle wings" We have really needed that this trip and especially today. We are both tired and a little down today but we know that we have been here to do the work that God called us to do.

If we don't post tomorrow we will make sure we do when we get home. We know that you all have many questions but I think it will take us sometime to process to all of