A MAJOR EARTHQUAKE HAS HIT Haiti; Magnitude 7.0. Sister Evelyn Dick, Church of the Brethren member and director of The Vine Ministry in Haiti, e-mails:
I cannot get a phone call through to Pastor Joel [St. Amour, pastor of the Vine Church in Port au Prince] so I don’t know about their safety nor the condition of the church building. My main concern is that on Tuesdays at 5:00 PM there is always a church service at Vine Church so I pray especially that the church held up particularly if there were people in it.
I was able to get a call through to the people I live with and they are all at home and fine.
Thank you so much for your prayers and concern.
On her Facebook page, Evelyn writes:
hearing from lots of my friends and they are OK but have had walls collapse and lots of things broken.
Sister Evelyn is planning on returning to Haiti on January 20 to be a chauffeur and interpreter for a Brethren Disaster Team that will be building houses in Gonaives. Looks like they might have more acute work ahead of them than planned.