Prayer Update For Haiti!

Port-Au-Prince, Haiti -- The death toll this morning rose to at least 1,344 in the cholera outbreak in Haiti that has sickened almost 57,000 people, the Haitian government said Monday.
This information came as international health officials predicted that the scale of Haiti's cholera epidemic will exceed initial estimates of 200,000 over coming months.
"Having seen how the bacteria is behaving in this environment with these people, having seen just how poor and how hungry the people are, we know we have to revise our numbers up," said Nyka Alexander, a spokeswoman for the World Health Organization, in a phone call with CNN.
Health workers say the Haitian population lacks immunity to cholera and Haitian medical workers lack experience treating the infection because the bacterium has not been detected on the island in more than a century.

With the violence spreading across Haiti and the impoverished country's weak health and sanitation systems are only compounding the problem. The perfect storm for cholera in Haiti. "Another factor why this epidemic has spread as far as it has and why it will continue to spread, is dirty water, poor sanitation, no toilets, malnutrition and poor access to health centers," Alexander said. "People have to walk five hours to a health center and if you have diarrhea you're not going to make it."

PLEASE PRAY FOR THE HAITIAN PEOPLE! CHOLERA OUTBREAK!

I know I have asked for prayer earlier this month regarding cholera epidemic sweeping through the populace.  Now there are at least 1,200 Haitians that have already died from the bacterial disease and there are more than 19,500 cases countrywide, according to the Ministry of Health.  As the mortality rate for cholera patients edged up from 7 percent to more than 9 percent in recent days, graves on the outskirts of the capital were being filled with multiple white body bags near where the earthquake victims were buried.  Some relief that had been held up has been released to help with this outbreak.  However, with 1.5 million people still homeless after the quake, plus an ongoing cholera epidemic this nation and the people really need our prayers.  I am asking you to really make it a mater of prayer.

YOUR PRAYERS ARE EFFECTIVE!

There are special areas of prayer for several areas, people and places that could use your prayers worldwide.  YOUR PRAYERS ARE EFFECTIVE!
"Jas 5:16-18 … The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.  Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.  And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit." NKJV


Pakistan:  The people of Pakistan will feel the effects of the flooding more months.  This country and people will have been hit hard by the loss of life, homes and shelters, crops and their way of life.  It has been said that the disaster in Pakistan is greater than most of the disasters for this year, including the earthquake in Haiti, all put together.  With all these things going, then there is the persecution of the Christians and the withholding aid for them on top of all this.


Haiti:  Although the earthquake was so many months ago, there is so much that still has yet to be done.  There were three groups that went down to the Southwest part of Haiti this year associated with Youth Quests and there has been success in starting the sustainable agricultural projects, improving a couple of homes and ministering to, evangelizing and showing the Jesus Film to many people within the village and surrounding areas.  There are also mission trips to Haiti planned for two areas of Haiti for 2011.  Contact us for more information if you are interested.


Peru:  There was an earthquake in Peru south of Lima that woke up a missionary in Piura, several hundred miles away in the northern part of Peru.  The epicenter was near the city Chincha which lost all phone and cell phone communication to the whole city among other things.  Youth Quests has a missions trip to Peru this summer in Piura and much was accomplished through Jesus Christ working through us.  Youth Quests is currently planning to return to Peru for a medical missions trip in January of 2011 and then another work/evangelism missions trip for the summer of 2011.


Africa:  This year Youth Quests has donated to help with feeding the hungry and ministry outreaches to a ministry in northwestern Kenya.  We would love to continue help with the less fortunate and ministry outreaches in this area.  Also, it is our desire to take a Kenya missions trip team there this coming summer of 2011 to help out with these efforts.  Please pray for these requests for Kenya.


Please pray for these several areas and requests, as well as, the several other areas of outreach and missions that Youth Quests is working with.  This is your chance to be a partner with us in these successful outreaches and the vision to touch many lives for the gospel of Christ.  Contact us for more information at Youth Quests International.

Floods Continue In Pakistan!

More than 21 million Pakistani children and women are affected by the worst monsoon flooding ever in northern Pakistan. Over the past four weeks floods have damaged, destroyed or cut off thousands of villages and communities and caused extensive damage to roads and bridges. Tens of thousands of children and families remain marooned in villages without clean water, adequate shelter, medical care and dangerously low supplies of food.
According to current update by Pakistani TV channels, India has released more water towards Pakistan which caused new destructions in many areas.
They still need our prayers!