3 National Days of Prayer Bring Rejoicing

Thousands have gone. Thousands are still standing to Praise God.

2/13/10 Pictures courtesy of Carel Pedre

Did you wonder about the 3 days of prayer and fasting in Haiti? Well, here's an account I captured from a missionary's blog:

We did not have school today, February 12, because today has been declared the first of three National Days of Prayer. Haitians are fasting for 30 hours - from 6 am this morning to 12 noon on Saturday. And believe me, they are out in force in church. This morning we went to a hospital to serve, and they had just a handful of patients - anyone who can be is in church. We woke right at 6 am because the church outside our window (just across the street, over the school's perimeter wall) started with prayer and singing at top volume. They were still worshiping at 12:45 when we had returned from the hospital. We heard them on the drive to the hospital, and we heard them while at the hospital - different congregations, blanketing Haiti in hymns.

Source: www.benandkatieinhaiti.com

An aid worker wrote, "Yesterday [Feb. 12] was a day of mourning and fasting that is supposed to last the whole weekend. In the downtown plaza by the National Palace the streets were filled with hundreds and thousands of people singing and praising God! Dancing with their hands lifted up and singing "Hallelujah" as their chant, singing a song about God's greatness and how He washed away their sins. It was a sight to behold.

"The tents and sea of humanity that are now forced to live in utter suffering were rejoicing with hallelujahs on their lips. Even now as I write this journal entry, I hear the singing of the people singing at a church down the street from where I am staying in the mountains above Port-au-Prince. I am undone by this; the people and their love for God. People sleeping on the street using scraps of debris for walls and a sheet for a roof multiplied by thousands, side by side; all having lost loved ones, personal belongings, their livelihood, everything, yet they stand and sing praises.

How can we not be moved to action? What are we going to do? How am I going to respond to this? How will we respond to what is happening here?

Follow the link below to watch and hear the sounds of Haitians singing and praising God everywhere they could find a place to gather. If you look closely, you will see some people bowed down completely, with their faces to the floor, in deep worship to God.

Haitians Rejoice (Five One Films)

Haiti - A Call To Fasting and Prayer

Funny I don’t remember the people in New Orleans responding that way, do you?

The last aftershock was on Tuesday (February 9). It measured 4.0 magnitude and was centered 25 miles west of Port-au-Prince.