Help in Haiti

In my comfortable home with heat, water, food, clothing, and a bed I realize that I have absolutely no idea what it means to have no home, no medical care, no running water, and no hope. It's hard to watch the images in Haiti. The news said it's the worst earthquake in 200 years.

Would you commit to help? We decided to help by donating to Compassion International because we sponsor children through them. It would be heartbreaking to turn on the news and see that something this terrible happened to Wendy in Colombia or to Mbonigaba in Ethiopia.

We received this email from Compassion International:

Compassion sponsors and donors serve more than 65,000 children in Haiti. At least a third of them live in the areas that were hardest hit.

I am asking you to please send a generous gift today to help precious children and their families, and to encourage others to give to Compassion International through your blog, Facebook and Myspace pages, Twitter account and e-mail. Please utilize every on-line tool you have access to. The people of Haiti desperately need our help and hope.

Compassion International is working rapidly to assess the situation and determine the full extent of damage:
• Sadly, we anticipate there will be many deaths.
• We anticipate thousands of children and families will have lost everything.
• We anticipate many of our church-based child development centers will have been destroyed.

You can provide immediate relief today.
• $35 helps provide a relief pack filled with enough food and water to sustain a family for one week.
• $70 gift helps care for their needs for two weeks.
• $105 helps provide relief packs filled with enough food and water to sustain two families for two weeks.
• $210 gift helps care for two families' needs.
• $525 helps provide relief packs filled with enough food and water to sustain 10 families for two weeks.
• $1,050 gift helps care for 10 families' needs.
• $1,500 helps rebuild a home.
• $2,100 helps supply 20 families with the basics for three weeks.

You can make a difference. Please visit Compassion to make a donation or donate $10 by texting "Disaster" to 90999.

To donate to the Red Cross you can text "Haiti" to 90999 to send a $10 donation or visit them here.

If you text the charge will show up on your next phone bill.

It amazes me to see the different countries on the news arriving to bring help to Haiti and while we can't go we can do something to help. Will you please help today?