This is from one of my friends, Gordon Zubrod. Gordy and I went to medical school together and were room-mates for a year. Gordy is now on the faculty at York Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program--where I did my residency!
Gordy felt God calling him to take time off work and go to Haiti. He just got down there yesterday, I believe, and he is heading out to the big island that sits in front of PAP (Gonave).
We had a smooth departure and journey yesterday. Left from Fort Pierce, Florida on one of the jets that Hendrick Motorsports (the owner of many of the big Nascar drivers) had lent to MFI to use in Haiti relief around 8:30 AM, stopped to refuel in the Bahamas and then continued on to Haiti. Arrived around 11:30 and had no problems through customs and immigration. We traveled north about an hour to our host Ben's house. This area was not the hardest hit and I was surprised to see how life seemed to be returning to a normal routine--exchanged money, filled up gas at the gas station, drove by road pavers back to work on the roads. Our Haitian driver pointed out the mass grave sites as we drove. We did see piles of rubble that had been moved to the side of the roads in many places. Had a quiet evening planning out our steps from here.
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Today we will head up to a local pastor and his church. They have a dispensary there and apparently there are a number of refugees that have been staying there. This afternoon we will hitch a ride with some Wesleyan missionaries that are sailing over to the island of LaGonave. They have asked our host, Ben, to help them with negotiating with the military and relief organizations about getting food to the island. 7,000 refugees per day are leaving Port au Prince and taking the ferry over to the island. The island has little capacity for food production and is largely dependent on shipments from Port au Prince which have stopped. The food shortage is the most critical problem the island is facing. Please pray for wisdom and relief to this situation. We would also like to visit the churches on the island to see how people are doing. Finally there is a Wesleyan hospital there we plan to visit and have some antibiotics and wound care supplies to give them. We will be there for 3 nights. I'm not sure what communication we will have from there.
Thank you for your prayers!
Gordy
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http://haitimedical.blogspot.com/
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