June 17, 2010 -11:05am – Thursday (Eastern Time) – Melbourne, FL – Report submitted by Joe Hurston – Air Mobile Joe

Take a look at the image above. Do you see the large disturbance on the right hand side approaching the Windward Islands? Please pray that this system does not strike Haiti! They are simply not ready for this!! We are working on returning to Haiti as soon as possible. We have a plan for setting up a “HURRICANE EVACUATION CENTER”. We have located a large abandoned hosptial just outside of Port-Au-Prince. It was originally built by Michelle Bennet Duvalier back in 1984 (if my memory serves me correctly). It is huge facility that has withstood hurricanes and most importantly, earthquakes. Many of the structures are still standing and quite solid. We recently became aware of a desperate “tent-city” on the grounds of this abandoned facility. I have written about it in earlier blogs. As a matter of fact, we were just there on Tuesday (6-15-10) and brought them over 2,000 servings of food. These folks DO NOT have any on-site water. The sickness and infection is extremely high in this community. Some of our medical staff treated several of the children during our Tuesday food deployment. 

One little boy had a terrible infection on his mouth. When I visted the community on our motorcycle, I snapped this shot to bring back to our nurse, Lauren, to get identify the best medication for him. When we returned an hour later, Lauren treated the young man. Praise God for technology! Because this community lacks clean water such infections and fevers are very common. We are searching diligently to help find a water source, before we donate a Voyager to the community. Please pray we are successful! In the meantime, we are speaking to various organizations about “outfitting” these old abandoned buildings as an Evacutation Center. There is a lot to be done and just a little time to do it. Again, there is so much more that I want to say, but time has run out. Cindy and I have a critical appointment with a large hospital network that has a very special interest in Haiti.

Please pray our meeting goes well and….THANKS FOR YOUR LOVE & PRAYER!!

Air Mobile Joe & Cindy