I have been asked all too often since my return from Haiti, “How was the trip”. What do you say? My response is; “it was intense.” How else do you respond to this question? The devastation was incredible. The need was and still is enormous, but of all the presence of God was just absolutely awesome! So how does one answer such a question with this dichotomy?

The intensity was in every aspect. Even getting to our work sites was arduous and dangerous. With all the acrid dust blowing up in the air one could not see the car ahead us and, more dangerous, the huge holes in the road left by missing manhole covers were also invisible.

Everywhere we went we saw the effect on the people, most seemed to expect that no real help was coming. But in getting down to work we witnessed a transformation. What seemed like, at a distance, a hopeless situation, up close and personal we saw God at work. He has taken this tragedy and has used it to break the devil’s hold on this nation.

We treated 1622 patients in ten days. 282 came to a saving knowledge of Christ. We watched God miraculously heal hundreds. And we watched as He transformed the hearts of thousands, maybe a nation, from one of total despair to one of hope and peace. An elderly man came in wheelchair bound from a stroke he suffered in the quake’s aftermath. He left walking only with the occasional use of a cane. A blind woman regained her sight. A deaf man regained his hearing. Our Lord performed one miracle after another.

The most awesome was the transformation of us. We went into this totally devastated city, struck by what appeared to be unmanageable needs, thinking there is just nothing we could really do. Then we witnessed what God could do and He was using us to do it. What a transformation. What an awesome God we have.