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Our blogs will be the latest of what we know in Haiti. [Above the children of Christ Compassion Orphanage with our team from Brandywine Community Church including Pastor Mark Wright and World Renewal-Haiti Field Director Max Wright]. We believe all should be fine for Pastor Luc and the Orphans. However, we have had no direct contact. We have set up a Haiti Relief Fund where you can donate for Pastor Luc to distribute where needed. You will find that fund at www.w World Renewal is accepting Haiti Relief Funds at any Star Bank.

orldrenewal.org on "Give" page just type in "Haiti Relief" as "Gift Recipient" or in the "Memo". Luc will have quick access to these funds.

[This photo, left, provided by Medecins Sans Frontieres shows wounded people gathered at the office of Medecins Sans Fr ontieres in Port-au-Prince, Haiti Wednesday Jan. 13, 2010.}

You can also see the

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Renewal-Haiti blog by our Haiti Field Director Max Wright. [Link to your left]

Here is the latest from Ass ociated Press:
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Haitians piled bodies along the devastated streets of their capital Wednesday after a powerful earthquake crushed thousands of structures, from schools and shacks to the National Palace and the U.N. peacekeeping headquarters. Untold numbers were still trapped.

President Rene Preval said he be

lieves thousands of people were dead from Tuesday afternoon's magnitude-7.0 quake.

"Parliament has collapsed. The tax office has collapsed. Schools have collapsed. Hospitals have collapsed," Preval told the Miami Herald. "There are a lot of schools tha

t have a lot of dead people in them."

Even the main prison in the capital fell, "and there are reports of escaped inmates," U.N. humanitarian spokeswoman Elisabeth Byrs said in Geneva.

The Roman Catholic archbishop of Port-au-Prince was among the dead, and the head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission was missing.

The international Red Cross said a third of Haiti's 9 million people may need emergency aid and that it would take a day or two for a clear picture of the damage to emerge.

No phones are working in Haiti at this time only satellite sites. Thanks for yo

ur prayer. Luc is about 100 miles from the epicenter of the quake. All reports of that distance from the quake list hard shakes and aftershocks (24 at last count) but little damage. Thanks for your prayer.

Thank you for having this up date on the earthquake in Haiti. It's so hard to imagine how difficult life is for them already, let alone now with this new crisis. Everyone involved is in my prayers and I'm sure many more will be said for their safety, and everyday needs.