Rescue efforts have officially ended and the task at hand is recovery.  Soon CNN will pack up its cameras and go off to the next important story.  The glare of the international spotlight will dim.  Haiti will be left alone in its struggle.  Alone except for those who were there before the quake, who remain today, and who will continue to help the Haitian people in the name of Christ.

Heartline Ministries is on the front line of such help.  John and Beth McHoul have been in Haiti for nearly 20 years serving as “God’s hands in Haiti”. 

Beth McHoul posts updates and observations in her blog.

“I've always thought the Haitian people were tough.  This week I stand amazed at their resilience and how they cope with pain and tragedy.  I'm also pretty impressed with the Americans working with us.  Some are missionaries and I already knew they were tough but our visitors - doctors, nurses and  support staff who flew in to help have been tireless in their efforts to make a difference.  A difference is being made every minute, every hour, every day.  People who have not been treated in over a week are finally getting treatment.  The pain they come in with is incomprehensible.  As we question them while they are being treated we find they have lost family members, houses, everything.  Everything.  They had so little to begin with.

“Our lives are changed.  Two weeks ago I was running marathons and working at the women's center.  Today there is no women's center - it's morphed into a hospital and my marathons are of another kind.  A rumbling of the earth has changed us forever.  My life as I knew it is gone.  I have a life.  I have a house.  It is full of extra people sleeping everywhere.  This won't change any time soon.

“Everywhere I look I see strong people. Amazing medical people working on tough patients who withstand enormous pain.  I marvel at them both.

“I am witness.  I have seen suffering, I have seen people work long hours under intense stress and act like it was no big deal. 

“My camera clicks non-stop to capture all this.  Smiling children with injuries beyond belief.  A crushed hand that means a crushed house.  But not a crushed spirit.
God lives, miracles are happening and I am reminded of Corie Ten Booms words ‘There is no pit so deep that God is not deeper still’.  He is here - we see Him at every turn. -Beth McHoul”

Clinic photos, many of which are of a very graphic nature can be seen HERE

A list of Heartline Ministries needs and video from their medical clinic can be seen HERE

To help support Hearline Ministries click HERE.  100% of all donations are spent in Haiti.