Unexpected phone call...

Going to Haiti just got a step more real for me today. Not just because I have spent the past two days taking the Critical Incident Stress Management workshop, a two day training program that prepares you to provide basic crisis intervention services ("psychological first-aid") to individuals in acute crisis using a structured system, but because of a call I got on my cell.

Well, maybe not because of a call I got (my cell was turned off after all - I, mean was in class) but because of who it was that called and left a message - Pastor Erimus Bernadin, of Église Taberable du St. Ministère.

That's right, not even two days ago I was matched up with a church, given information (posted below), and asked to pray for this group of people, when today I go to check my voicemail and hear a message I can barely understand the first time except for one word (or name, rather) - Erimus.

I knew AIM would tell the church that they had been "matched" with me for prayer, but I did not realize that they would be able to contact me. So, I was definitely caught off guard. The message was very brief. But, hearing a human voice, who I have a face and very specific needs to match with, has taken my trip to Haiti and my relief involvement to a whole other, much more personal, level...

If you're reading this, I would love you to partner in prayer with me for these people with very, very real needs. I would love to be able to tell them that you and I are praying for them, specifically, and that Église Taberable du St. Ministère is not forgotten.