Haiti and Cuba

Better than sending aid, we're sending in a team of carpenters. We go atleast once a year to help build a Bible institute. They'll be going in early spring next year. I'm not sure what we're doing directly about the hurricane stuff - I'd have to find out from our missions pastor how the Cuban church is doing.

 

I'm not sure exactly where in Cuba it is. I haven't seen the missions pastor since Sunday so I haven't had a chance to ask him about how they fared. It's so sad to think of a country that's so poor would experience that kind of devastation.

 

OK - Found out the deal. Information is hard to get out of Cuba because there's no good phone system and it took a long time to get out to all the different Christian churches on Cuba to see how they fared.

The good news is that no one involved with any of the ministries we work with were injured or killed. A number of churches were damaged as were people's homes. They lost a number of buildings on the property that we've worked on but none of the buildings we've actually had a hand in were damaged. Our missions pastor sent an e-mail yesterday but he said it could be a while to get an e-mail back because of the bad communications there.

Thank God no one was hurt or killed. Buildings can be repaired.