My heart is drawn to children and youth. I love spending time with them - playing and teaching. Especially the very young children. They are just so cuddly and will just reach out and love you. I used to look forward to my time working in the nursery every week because I knew the kids would make me feel better.
It is the pictures and stories of children hurting that reach out and touch our hearts the most. This week our world is hurting from the terrible disaster that has happened in Haiti. Disaster relief and volunteers have been working to help those injured, homeless, and hungry to simply survive until lives can begin to be put back together. Here are some stories, but think about them along with Jesus's words "and whoever welcomes a child in my name, welcomes me" 
One patient is a 2-month-old baby with severe burns over 50 percent of her body. She's really not drinking that well. She's at risk for dehydration and infection. One second she's up, and then not responsive and listless the next - she need better care. This is a baby that would be in an intensive care unit in the United States.
We're here with 15-year-old Lovely. Two days ago she was found under rubble, three days into the disaster - she had a corpse on top of her. The Miami Search and Rescue Team actually went in and had to amputate her arm in the field.
We then operated on her and resuscitated her on a folding card table under a tree. She's alive, but infection is setting in - we're going to the operating table to clean out the wound and hopefully she'll do OK.
Better news today for a two month old who was trapped beneath rubble for four days. We spent an hour resuscitating her and then she was airlifted out to Miami's Jackson Memorial hospital where's in critical but stable condition.
With prayers for all those suffering and grateful for my own blessings,
your sister in Christ~Erin
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