A Haitian Prophecy

Water will gush in the wilderness and streams in the desert. Gladness and joy will overtake them and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
Isaiah 35: 6b, 10b.

Poverty, disease, starvation and then on January 12th 2010 the earth shook. Now death, destruction, loss and grief join the brokenness that is Haiti.

On February 21st we step out of our cocoon into the devastation of Port Au Prince. Hungry people and collapsed buildings line the streets. Fragile tent cities arise amid the rubble. The entire country is in shock and grief.

Who can rebuild the rubble? Who can heal the brokenhearted? Can there be streams in the desert? Can the prophecy of Isaiah 35 be fulfilled? Will there be renewal?

We arrive at Marchand Desalines and we join a team of four doctors and one nurse for a week of ministry at the Claire Heureuse Hospital. Our assignment is to minister to the emotional and spiritual needs of the patients. We are at ground zero.

We move through the wards patient by patient:
• A five year old girl in the midst of an epileptic fit is healed through prayer.
• A woman who lost four children in the earthquake is comforted and converted.
• Many others are converted throughout the week.
• A 9 month old baby who had been drinking only sugar water for 3 days is
given milk to drink. The mother is converted.
• A woman dying of cancer is prayed for & comforted as Jesus takes her home.
• A woman dies as we pray for her. Several others die.
• The gospel is preached as the patients gather in the outdoor chapel at
6:30am each morning waiting for the clinics to open.
• An alcoholic repents and is given food for the first time in several days.
• Many patients receive grief counseling due to losses in the earthquake.
• Food is distributed at the hospital to about 80 people.
• A two month old baby whose mother died in the earthquake is adopted by her
aunt who was converted.
• The week ends with a funeral service for a young woman who died in the
earthquake and the family receives closure and the healing process begins.

As we pray and give sacrificially and go the prophecy begins its fulfillment. Healing and renewal come to the broken and grieving. Then suddenly one day the prophecy will be complete: Jesus will return and the desert of this world will become a spring eternal and sorrow and sighing will flee forever away. Renewal will be complete.


Crossroads Free Methodist Church: Team Haiti 2010
Pastors Willie & Daisy Kirchhofer, Carlos Rodriguez & Matthew Saldarini