The day of the earthquake they went into PAP, which they weren't supposed to do until Friday. They tried to go to an orphanage and so Steve P said to keep going, they weren't supposed to be there. Then shortly after he said we have to leave, we need to go home, we aren't supposed to be here. Emily said they had just passed the UN and they heard a loud noise and the car dropped and she thought a tire blew, and then everything started shaking so she thought maybe the UN was bombed and they were feeling the aftershocks. She said they were with one of Steve P's family members and he pulled the car over and they could see the power lines shaking and falling and buildings moving.
They made it to the compound of at pond Parisian. Lloyd was able to text me (Elissa) miraculously. We hadn't had any telephone communication since they'd crossed the border into Haiti on Sunday.
She said people started pouring in. There wasn't power in most of the country, but they had it. She said one of the first injured to arrive was a four year old boy who had half of the skin torn from his head. She went upstairs to pray and said the screams were horrible. Shortly after that the power went out, so she started praying intensely about God being the light of the world, After a bit it came back on.
She said food and water started to run low, they've been eating cold hot dogs for breakfast. They were with part of group from Kentucky who contacted Go Ministries. We had met a prominent member of that organization last time we were there and his son helped the team find a bus and a hotel in Santa Domingo for the night.
Elissa
