A wind of heaven

Mark McLeod, who is coordinating logistics for the Samaritan's Purse medical team in Haiti, writes from the Baptist Haiti Mission hospital.

Three nights ago, one of the young nurses and her friend, a surgeon from Quebec, began a sing-along in her ward. It took about 15 minutes for every mobile person in the hospital to find their way to the music ... people in wheelchairs, on crutches, with broken arms and broken bodies. Other staff began to carry people in.

The nurse began to pray and then to cry and it was like a wind of heaven moved across the room.

Every night since then, the whole hospital has gathered in a different ward for those who can't get out of their beds. They sing and they pray and it is like an old-fashioned revival is happening. You have to see it to believe it.

It lasted for almost two hours tonight. Little ladies with broken arms were praying at the top of their lungs. A little boy carried in by a nurse was singing at the top of his lungs. A young man depressed because his leg was amputated was laughing and singing and high-fiving everyone he could reach.

You should hear them pray ... and of course sing. This is really an amazing story. The whole hospital is singing and praying. There is incredible harmony with the staff, and the new team from America. We are all up there singing along as best we can. And the tall young nurse and surgeon from Quebec pray and cry and pray again—in French. I’ve never seen anything like it. All these battered and broken and hurt people … brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

Best of all, several have made decisions to accept Jesus as Savior. Nobody has prayed or asked them, they just smile up at you and say I asked Jesus into my heart while you were singing.

Brilliant.