Hello and thank you for your prayers, concerns, and support.
(For those who I haven't spoken to in a long time and don't usually receive these emails, I now live in the Dominican Republic and an earthquake hit our island so I'm writing anyone I can to help the people here - please see below to help)
Today we spent the day tuned into emails and reports from NPH Haiti, and it appears they were affected much worse than I had thought.  The 8 story NPH hospital (which was also a school and therapy center for the special needs kids) that had collapsed, housed not only patients, but also the volunteers, visitors, and staff of the NPH orphanage.  So far, they found the body of one American who was visiting his brother who is volunteering and he was dead, and the volunteer coordinator from Haiti is in very critical condition and unable to speak, but all the other volunteers, visitors, and staff are still yet to be found - including volunteers we know who had come here to visit and hang out with us, and many close friends of volunteers here, so needless to say everyone is extremely emotional here.  There are 3 Haitian staff here who have not been able to reach any of their friends and family yet, but also many of the kids here have family in that area of Haiti and pretty much everyone has friends there and no one is able to locate them.  Rosalin, our sponsorship coordinator, talked to a friend in Haiti and was informed all the friends she knew there are dead or missing.  Our former Haitian roommates and close friends, Fritznel and Antoine (from our dance videos), also lived 10 minutes from where the hospital came down and are missing.  It is predicted at least tens of thousands of people have died, and up to 3 million people have been affected.  The borders are closed and only aid planes and helicopters are being allowed in and it is very dangerous to go there as we have been told.  Our American friends who live in the capital and often visit us, pooled all the money they could to get a helicopter out tomorrow to send over our Haitian staff as well as the director of the Haiti orphanage and hospital, who had been out of the country visiting his dying mother.  But, needless to say, things there are very very bad.  Dave was trying to go to help, which he was a little nervous about knowing the streets are stacked with dead bodies everywhere and he would be helping to collect more, but space is very limited so the helicopters are only allowed to those who are missing family or are medical staff.  Some connections from NPH have asked the first lady of the DR to open the border tonight so we can start to get people over there to find bodies of the NPH volunteers that are missing and to care for those that are found in critical condition, but not sure yet if they can get across.  NPH Italy is sending helicopters with 13 doctors and Kieran is pooling money from all other budgets to go straight to Haiti, but the need is so great.  We will definitely be taking out money from the donations that were made when we were home, but please consider giving what you can to help with the extreme need to find those missing and keep those we can alive.  Every little bit counts.  Please pass this on to all the people you can to pray and give what they can.  Andrea and Dawnette please forward this to all of Owosso staff and everyone else please inform your friends, family, workplaces, and churches to start praying!  Please try to imagine this as your own close friends, roommates, loved ones.  Almost all of the volunteers here have stayed in the housing there, and that easily could have been Dave and I staying in the building that had collapsed.  Please also pray for our family Tim and Paola as I can't even imagine what they are going through there.  Please see this website for more information and pictures of the NPH building that collapsed:
http://www.friendsoftheorphans.org/s/769/inner.aspx?sid=769&gid=1&pgid=252&cid=1903&ecid=1903&crid=0&calpgid=61&calcid=719

You can donate online (on the website above), or if you would like it to go straight from our hands to the Haitian volunteers here you can contact my mom 248-705-2198 or my dad 248-408-6342 to have the money deposited directly into our checking account.  If you choose to go this route, I promise that 100% of the money will go directly to the people who can provide support and relief to those in Haiti.  We are going to have fundraisers in town to raise money, which won't be too much from the Dominicans here, but every penny counts.  If you can't give, please pray and pray and pray and pray and tell everyone else you know to do the same.  Forward this email to everyone you know please.  I will keep you posted with what we find out.

For more pictures, please see this website http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-381632 - the last 4 pictures are of the Padre Wasson Center (hospital) - notice our logo on the gate in front of the collapsed hospital. :(

Love and prayers,
Kristin