“It looks like hell on earth.”

Photo cred: CrossInternational.org

“It looks like Dante’s inferno. There are dead bodies everywhere. It is hell on earth,” said Mike Henry, one of our Cross International project officers who experienced yesterday’s 7.2-Magnitude earthquake in Haiti.

Mike was at our Port-au-Prince office when the earthquake hit. He told us there was damage to water pipes, the power is out, and he could hear screams throughout the city, but thankfully none of the staff inside the building was injured.

Mike has moved to a different location to work with our ministry partners to assess the need and provide whatever help he can. He is living out of his car and he says they have plenty of water right now but food is running short. He is nearby the destroyed Hotel Montana and he says that, by the looks of things, it is one of the hardest hit areas.

The current picture is grim, with scores of people wandering the streets, wailing for dead or missing relatives, and seeking medical care in makeshift tent clinics because the hospitals have been crushed. No numbers yet on casualties, which are expected to be in the thousands, but news is trickling in from our ministry partners.

• Check the Cross Field Blog (www.crossfieldblog.com) for regular updates from Mike in Haiti.
• You can hear audio from Mike here.
• To give to our Haiti Disaster relief effort, go here.

And please pray.