THE HAITI EARTHQUAKE

Crisis Intervention through Intercession

hosted by James W. Goll | Jan 19, 2010
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Did you know that History Belongs to the Intercessor? Did you know it is an honor to come into your home, campus, or work place each week? Thanks for partnering with me in another week of “the hour that changes the world” through the power of intercession in our Global Prayer Storm. Last week we honored our Civil Rights Movement in the U. S., as we directed our attention to the crisis message of THE CALL CRISIS HOUSTON being shouted by our forerunner Lou Engle. Thousands gathered in Houston to stand for Life! Thanks for remembering the theme of “God’s Justice in the Earth” this past week in prayer around the world in it’s various applications.

This week we will direct our Crisis Intercession attention towards the tiny nation of Haiti and it’s 9 million resilient people. This nation, on the Island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean, experienced its worst earthquake in 200 years this past week. The death toll has surpassed 50,000 people. It has torn my heart as I have watched the various coverage of this historic disaster. This touches me in a very personal manner.

In the 1980’s I made 14 missions trips to Haiti. I did up front work for Mahesh Chavda for a crusade that was held right in the location of where the epicenter of the earthquake took place – Pettionville. I prayer walked the slums of the City of So Lei, taught pastors for a week on the themes of Spiritual Warfare and the Gifts of the Holy Spirit, led a team to show the Jesus Film and then helped build a church building among the poor, and raised support for orphans. I wept in intercession over this nation with Michal Ann as we carried our first-born son, Justin, into a land of lovely people. I learned the power of travail as the Spirit of the Lord gripped my heart for the over throw of a grievous dictatorship so that democracy would be ushered in. 

Will you join me in intercession for Haiti this week? Watch the new web cast on God’s Heart for Justice and the Poor. It will complement this week’s prayer theme.

People ask me what to do? Where do we give?  Well, knowing that there has been a history of corruption in this nation, it is all the more important you direct your giving wisely. I am doing some investigation of some of the smaller ministries and contacts that I personally have. But until I have been able to sort through this, you need to be guided by a few basic guidelines.

1) Give to an organization or ministry that already has history in the land
2) That has infrastructure already in place
3) That a small percent of your finances goes into administration and most
     of it into actual on-sight relief work
4) Into an organization or ministry that will release a clear testimony of Jesus!

With all this in mind, we have chosen the Salvation Army Haiti Relief Fund as a reputable ministry to direct our giving into until. They have had a presence in the nation for over two decades, they have infrastructure in place and they give a cup of water in the name of Jesus! We will keep you posted if we choose to engage in some additional direct manner. But we can all pray for God’s mercy!  Join us in prayer this week!

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So let’s release God’s Intervention through the Power of Intercession this week. Always remember, together in Jesus, we make a great team.

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A REPORT ON THE
HAITIAN EARTHQUAKE

Haiti earthquake: Day by Day - by the BBC

Estimates of the numbers killed in the Haitian earthquake range from 50,000 to 200,000. This is how events unfolded after the quake - with a magnitude of 7.0 - struck at 1653 local time (2153 GMT) on Tuesday, 12 January.

The leading US general in Haiti Lt Gen Ken Keen said it was a "reasonable assumption" that up to 200,000 people might have died in last Tuesday's earthquake.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he would recommend that the Security Council boost UN troop numbers in Haiti by 2,000 for six months, and UN police numbers by 1,500.

Meanwhile, almost a week after the earthquake violence and looting have broken out in parts of Port-au-Prince. Police fired shots to disperse looters in parts of the capital.

THE NUMBERS

• Death toll feared to top 200,000
• By 18 January, more than 70,000 dead had been buried
• An estimated 300,000 people left homeless
• One in 10 homes in capital Port-au-Prince destroyed
• 3,000 UN troops and police are on the ground - 3,500 more to come
• 2,000 US Marines are set to join 1,000 US troops
• 26 search and rescue teams are hunting for survivors
  Source: UN/US government (19 January)

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More U.S. Troops, U.N. Peacekeepers Flow Into Haiti ~ Fox News

Monday, January 18, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti —  Troops, doctors and aid workers flowed into Haiti on Monday even while hundreds of thousands of quake victims struggled to find a cup or water or a handful of food.

European nations pledged more than a half-billion dollars, with $474 million in emergency and long-term aid coming from the European Union alone and $132 million promised by member states.

But help was still not reaching many victims of Tuesday's quake — choked back by transportation bottlenecks, bureaucratic confusion, fear of attacks on aid convoys, the collapse of local authority and the sheer scale of the need.

"We don't need military aid. What we need is food and shelter," one young man yelled at U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon during his visit to the city Sunday. "We are dying," a woman told him.

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Haiti earthquake relief is stifled by chaos in Port-au-Prince

By Mary Beth Sheridan and William Booth Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, January 19, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -- Security has emerged as one of the most formidable challenges in this earthquake-shattered capital, officials said Monday, limiting the ability of the United Nations and relief officials from elsewhere to distribute the food and medicine beginning to pile up at the airport.

The U.N. Security Council on Monday unanimously endorsed a proposal from Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to send 3,500 more peacekeepers to Haiti to assist in the humanitarian relief effort, but it was not clear how soon they would arrive. Pentagon officials, meanwhile, said they had about 1,700 troops in Haiti, the vanguard of an estimated 5,000 American soldiers and Marines expected to be in the country by midweek.

"Security is the key now in order for us to be able to put our feet on the ground," said Vincenzo Pugliese, a U.N. spokesman. He said a lack of security had limited peacekeepers' access "to the operational theater" -- the city beyond the U.N. compound's walls.

The acknowledgement came as the streets here filled with people scrambling to survive six days after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake destroyed the Haitian capital. The European Commission, the executive body of the European Union, estimated that 200,000 people were killed in the earthquake, far more than the 50,000 estimated over the weekend. The new figure is based on information from the Haitian government, but officials cautioned that it was still only an estimate.

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Latest Updates on the Crisis in Haiti ~ The New York Times New Blog

By ROBERT MACKEY - January 19, 2010

Update | 4:26 p.m. On Tuesday, a Haitian police official told Reuters that he needs reinforcements from the international community to deal with the problem caused by prisoners who escaped from city jails after the earthquake. The news agency reported:

Haiti’s Police Chief Mario Andresol said his depleted force needs the help of U.N. peacekeepers to maintain law and order, noting that 4,000 criminals escaped from damaged prisons. “Yesterday, downtown the looters simply outnumbered my guys. They could not control them,” Andresol told Reuters. “It will be very difficult to get the bad guys back into jail,” Andresol said. “We were in control of security before the earthquake, but now we do not have the conditions to fix the situation. That is why we need outside help.”

U.N. officials said the security situation had not hampered distribution of food rations to 270,000 Haitians so far and that hundreds of thousands more would benefit in coming days.

A U.N. official in Geneva told the news agency that the situation in Port-au-Prince was “tense but calm.”

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U.S troops deploy as Haiti aid operation picks up

By Tom Brown and Joseph Guyler Delva PORT-AU-PRINCE, Jan 19 (Reuters) -
19 Jan 2010 21:45:04 GMT

Source: Reuters

* U.S. helicopters land troops at presidential palace
* U.N. officials say humanitarian crisis under control
* Potentially fatal infections pose severe risk
* Obama's approval gains due to handling of Haiti crisis (Adds U.S. troops spreading outside the capital)

U.S. Black Hawk helicopters swooped down on Haiti's wrecked presidential palace to deploy troops and supplies on Tuesday as a huge international relief operation to help earthquake survivors gained momentum.

The airborne troops in combat gear moved to secure Port-au-Prince's nearby General Hospital, where staff have been overwhelmed by patients seriously injured in the 7.0 magnitude that destroyed much of Haiti's capital one week ago.

Their deployment brought crowds of quake survivors camped out in the park opposite the palace rushing to its iron railings to gawk and beg for handouts of food.

It was one of the most visible and potentially sensitive deployments so far by the U.S. military, which is spearheading international efforts to assist millions of injured and homeless Haitians.

At least one Latin American leader, Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez, a fiery critic of what he calls U.S. "imperialism," has already accused Washington of "occupying" Haiti under the pretext of an aid operation.

The commander of the U.S. troops in Haiti, Lieutenant General Ken Keen, said their primary purpose was humanitarian assistance and providing food and water to Haitians. But, he told CNN at the hospital protected by his men, "Security goes hand-in-hand with our mission".

Watching the soldiers, quake survivor Gille Frantz said: "We know the world wants to help us, but it has been eight days now and I have not seen any food or water for my family."

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Prayer Points for Intervention in Haiti

• Pray to the Lord of the Harvest for Laborers to be released into the field in Jesus Name!
  
  
• Pray for a testimony of the Good News of Jesus Christ to come forth. Pray that the nation turns away from witchcraft and runs into the arms of a loving God. Prayer for a revival to break forth.
  
  
• Pray for coordinated efforts in the area of humanitarian relief and the rebuilding of every area of life.
  
  
• Pray for the re-establishment of a Godly Government in every sphere of influence in the nation of Haiti. Prayer for leaders across the nations to unite for such a time as this.
  
  
• Prayer that the body of Christ awakens to our call as ambassadors and that we become repairers of the breach.
  
  
• Pray in the Gift on Tongues or other forms of Praying in the Spirit as you ask God to give you His heart for these people. Your prayers can save a life! Your prayers can multiply food!  Your prayers can help find someone who is lost…
  
  
• Pray for angels to be released into Port au Prince and the entire nation of Haiti. Ask for Heaven to come down in the midst of darkness for the glory of God!

Thanks for standing with me for “the hour that changes the world.”

James W. Goll

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