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January 20, 2010 ***Update***
Conversation of Linda Hollinshead with Jean Eney ...
Wednesday 01/20/2010 6:10AM
I was at home when the phone rang. It was John. We had just starting talking when all of a sudden I heard
people in the background screaming and crying. John said, "Mom were having another earthquake." It lasted
what seemed minutes, but was only seconds when he said it had passed.
I asked if it was another tremor and he told me, "No, it was much stronger this time. Almost like the first one."
I asked where he was at? He said he was in his car outside where he had been staying in the yard. He had
just went to his car because his phone battery went dead, and he was using his car battery to charge up his
phone so he could stay in touch with us.
I told him we received the pictures from Villejeune and asked if he could get pictures of his house and any other
picture he could share with us. He said he will try to borrow a camera and send some. When I spoke with him
about Villejeune's house, I mentioned to him that when I first looked at the pictures I thought there wasn't much
damage. That is until I looked at them a little more in detail, and realized the top of the house now sits where
the bottom of the house used to be. The entire bottom of the house had collapsed as if it was never there. The
bottom half of the house is where Jo Jo was when the quake hit.
(To make a correction concerning JoJo injuries and entrapment, a huge piece of cement had come down on him
trapping his arm to the point that he couldn't move. John, Pastor Villejune, and others tried to free him, but
darkness set in and without any light they were unable to get him out until the next morning.)
This morning, I asked about JoJo arm and he told me that it is looking a little better as it had swelled up real big
when they had first got him out of the rubble. His arm is broken. But despite his injuries, JoJo talked about his
desire to organize and hold the Mission Par la Foi Clinic at Jeremie during Convention next month. Of course
this is as long as he has medicines to do so. Jo Jo expressed his prayers that we can find a conduit with which
we can work through to get the medicines needed to treat the many people who will be needing our clinic next
month at Convention.
Please continue to pray for Pastor Villjuene, Jo Jo, and Jean (John) Eney and their families. Also please keep in
your prayers the countless others of Haiti that need the basic necessities of life.
Marlin had just called shortly after my conversation with John saying that he heard that Haiti just had another
earthquake. I told him I was talking to John when it happened.
How much more will these poor people be able to handle? Please keep praying as they strive to keep their
families and themselves alive.
From Junior Eustache
Hi, pastor Craig I went to bonbom I took some pictures, I can say that the house which that pastor living in, if
no intervention it will fall. The ceiling and the wall of pastor Nelson house cut many places. the wall of the
center, and the house you used to stay is the same.I' trying to send you some pictures
January 13, 2010:
Praise the Lord I'm OK!
But my house break of and the wall fall down in many places! my sister ,she is in the hospital in port au prince
and so far I have five of my family died!. many friends died too in port au- prince. to tell you the truth I'm not
feeling to good I have headache and I can from time to time feel my body shake Please keep me in your
prayers.
From Pastor Villejeune
Dear brother Marlin and Linsa I wanted to speak to you but impossible. Time is very difficult for us specially for
me. My house felt down, my garnder die under the wall,Jojo come out very badly, we have nothing, no
communication, no water to drink, no food, what I'm talking about nothing works.I think we're living the last
day, I don't know what to do, every body is in the same situation. We're sleeping under the stars, it's
impossible. Write to me by mail....
...some pictures sent by pastor Villejeune...
January 16, 2010 ***Update***
From Linda Hollinshead ...
Saturday evening about 8pm I tried to call John on the number he gave me last night when he called to let us
know he is ok. It rang and John answered and he told me the government has opened the lines and the call
would not cost me anything to talk to him. He has a little trouble talking as he has an awful cold.
I asked him if he could tell me about the earthquake.
He had just picked the boys up from the school and had taken them home and had them inside the house. He
then left to go into town. As he was driving he felt his car shake very badly and he didn't think too much about
it as that has happened before, but this time it kept shaking and then he thought some one had hit his car, but as
he looked he saw all these houses and building falling down and he turn as fast as he could to get back home to
his children as he knew by this time it was an earthquake. He drove fast and came to a bridge and it had
collapsed. He couldn't get through, so he walked through the water to get to his boys.
Guerda was at work so the boys were alone except for the neighbors who helped look after them. He ran as
fast as he could thinking the whole time the boys were probably dead.
The neighbor saw him running and he told John the boys were ok. By that time he got there, they were outside
and when they saw John, they ran into his arms and knocked him down. All he could say was, "Thank-you
Jesus; Thank you, Jesus; Thank you, Jesus" over and over again. The boys had tried to call him on the cell
phone and when he didn't answer they thought he was dead.
The hospital where Guerda works did not collapse, but is not able to be used. So all the employees sat in the
park beside the hospital and they spent the night there with some friends.
The next day she walked all the way home. She too thought she lost her family.
They are now living outside in the yard as they are still having tremors about every 6 hours and they are afraid to
go inside. I asked him again about Pastor Villejuene and he said he and his family are ok and they too are living
in their yard.
He went to Villejunes to help him and crawled on his stomach through a hole to get some of their items for them
and found Jo Jo trapped. They made a hole for him to get air, so he could breath. It took almost 12 hours
before they were able to get him out. Thank God, he is ok. No broken bones but badly bruised.
I asked about if they had received food or water yet. He said so many people are fighting to get to the food and
water that he was afraid to get out and go to the airport for it. He lives about 1 mile from the airport and is so
close to the aid, but he said it is unsafe to go get it. He was able to buy a few vegetable and some water, but he
said it was very expensive.
I asked if he could make it to Jeremie to stay and he said he would talk it over with Guerda and let us know
when I call him Monday night. He said the school where the boys go was not damaged, and there was talk that
they may open the school next week. But he doesn't think that will happen. (Very unlikely.)
The new church of Pastor Villejeune's is ok and was not affected. Praise God!!
He said the odor is very very bad because of all the dead bodies throughout PAP. He also said there are no
large or tall buildings left in Port au Price at all. He said it is completely ruined and predicted that it could take as
long as 50 years to rebuild what has been ruined.
I asked him to write all of this information down, but would go ahead and write what he has given me tonight.
Most of all, he wants ALL of you to know he is very grateful for your PRAYERS for him, his family, Pastor
Villejuene and his family, and their country of Haiti. Please don't quite Praying. There is a long road ahead.
Report update from Pastor Saint Louis ...
Just a little while, I just speak to Pastor Bonhomme, he says that the personnage at Chambellan has many splits,
fissures in the walls; so his wife is living now in the little church across the big church, but in the town of Jeremie
nothing bad at this time.
Pastor Saint-Louis Jean
Conversation of Linda Hollinshead with Jean Eney ...
Wednesday 01/20/2010 6:10AM
I was at home when the phone rang. It was John. We had just starting talking when all of a sudden I heard
people in the background screaming and crying. John said, "Mom were having another earthquake." It lasted
what seemed minutes, but was only seconds when he said it had passed.
I asked if it was another tremor and he told me, "No, it was much stronger this time. Almost like the first one."
I asked where he was at? He said he was in his car outside where he had been staying in the yard. He had
just went to his car because his phone battery went dead, and he was using his car battery to charge up his
phone so he could stay in touch with us.
I told him we received the pictures from Villejeune and asked if he could get pictures of his house and any other
picture he could share with us. He said he will try to borrow a camera and send some. When I spoke with him
about Villejeune's house, I mentioned to him that when I first looked at the pictures I thought there wasn't much
damage. That is until I looked at them a little more in detail, and realized the top of the house now sits where
the bottom of the house used to be. The entire bottom of the house had collapsed as if it was never there. The
bottom half of the house is where Jo Jo was when the quake hit.
(To make a correction concerning JoJo injuries and entrapment, a huge piece of cement had come down on him
trapping his arm to the point that he couldn't move. John, Pastor Villejune, and others tried to free him, but
darkness set in and without any light they were unable to get him out until the next morning.)
This morning, I asked about JoJo arm and he told me that it is looking a little better as it had swelled up real big
when they had first got him out of the rubble. His arm is broken. But despite his injuries, JoJo talked about his
desire to organize and hold the Mission Par la Foi Clinic at Jeremie during Convention next month. Of course
this is as long as he has medicines to do so. Jo Jo expressed his prayers that we can find a conduit with which
we can work through to get the medicines needed to treat the many people who will be needing our clinic next
month at Convention.
Please continue to pray for Pastor Villjuene, Jo Jo, and Jean (John) Eney and their families. Also please keep in
your prayers the countless others of Haiti that need the basic necessities of life.
Marlin had just called shortly after my conversation with John saying that he heard that Haiti just had another
earthquake. I told him I was talking to John when it happened.
How much more will these poor people be able to handle? Please keep praying as they strive to keep their
families and themselves alive.
From Junior Eustache
Hi, pastor Craig I went to bonbom I took some pictures, I can say that the house which that pastor living in, if
no intervention it will fall. The ceiling and the wall of pastor Nelson house cut many places. the wall of the
center, and the house you used to stay is the same.I' trying to send you some pictures
January 13, 2010:
Praise the Lord I'm OK!
But my house break of and the wall fall down in many places! my sister ,she is in the hospital in port au prince
and so far I have five of my family died!. many friends died too in port au- prince. to tell you the truth I'm not
feeling to good I have headache and I can from time to time feel my body shake Please keep me in your
prayers.
From Pastor Villejeune
Dear brother Marlin and Linsa I wanted to speak to you but impossible. Time is very difficult for us specially for
me. My house felt down, my garnder die under the wall,Jojo come out very badly, we have nothing, no
communication, no water to drink, no food, what I'm talking about nothing works.I think we're living the last
day, I don't know what to do, every body is in the same situation. We're sleeping under the stars, it's
impossible. Write to me by mail....
...some pictures sent by pastor Villejeune...
January 16, 2010 ***Update***
From Linda Hollinshead ...
Saturday evening about 8pm I tried to call John on the number he gave me last night when he called to let us
know he is ok. It rang and John answered and he told me the government has opened the lines and the call
would not cost me anything to talk to him. He has a little trouble talking as he has an awful cold.
I asked him if he could tell me about the earthquake.
He had just picked the boys up from the school and had taken them home and had them inside the house. He
then left to go into town. As he was driving he felt his car shake very badly and he didn't think too much about
it as that has happened before, but this time it kept shaking and then he thought some one had hit his car, but as
he looked he saw all these houses and building falling down and he turn as fast as he could to get back home to
his children as he knew by this time it was an earthquake. He drove fast and came to a bridge and it had
collapsed. He couldn't get through, so he walked through the water to get to his boys.
Guerda was at work so the boys were alone except for the neighbors who helped look after them. He ran as
fast as he could thinking the whole time the boys were probably dead.
The neighbor saw him running and he told John the boys were ok. By that time he got there, they were outside
and when they saw John, they ran into his arms and knocked him down. All he could say was, "Thank-you
Jesus; Thank you, Jesus; Thank you, Jesus" over and over again. The boys had tried to call him on the cell
phone and when he didn't answer they thought he was dead.
The hospital where Guerda works did not collapse, but is not able to be used. So all the employees sat in the
park beside the hospital and they spent the night there with some friends.
The next day she walked all the way home. She too thought she lost her family.
They are now living outside in the yard as they are still having tremors about every 6 hours and they are afraid to
go inside. I asked him again about Pastor Villejuene and he said he and his family are ok and they too are living
in their yard.
He went to Villejunes to help him and crawled on his stomach through a hole to get some of their items for them
and found Jo Jo trapped. They made a hole for him to get air, so he could breath. It took almost 12 hours
before they were able to get him out. Thank God, he is ok. No broken bones but badly bruised.
I asked about if they had received food or water yet. He said so many people are fighting to get to the food and
water that he was afraid to get out and go to the airport for it. He lives about 1 mile from the airport and is so
close to the aid, but he said it is unsafe to go get it. He was able to buy a few vegetable and some water, but he
said it was very expensive.
I asked if he could make it to Jeremie to stay and he said he would talk it over with Guerda and let us know
when I call him Monday night. He said the school where the boys go was not damaged, and there was talk that
they may open the school next week. But he doesn't think that will happen. (Very unlikely.)
The new church of Pastor Villejeune's is ok and was not affected. Praise God!!
He said the odor is very very bad because of all the dead bodies throughout PAP. He also said there are no
large or tall buildings left in Port au Price at all. He said it is completely ruined and predicted that it could take as
long as 50 years to rebuild what has been ruined.
I asked him to write all of this information down, but would go ahead and write what he has given me tonight.
Most of all, he wants ALL of you to know he is very grateful for your PRAYERS for him, his family, Pastor
Villejuene and his family, and their country of Haiti. Please don't quite Praying. There is a long road ahead.
Report update from Pastor Saint Louis ...
Just a little while, I just speak to Pastor Bonhomme, he says that the personnage at Chambellan has many splits,
fissures in the walls; so his wife is living now in the little church across the big church, but in the town of Jeremie
nothing bad at this time.
Pastor Saint-Louis Jean
