Post-traumatic stress training

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Dear Brothers and Sisters,

The Dominican Baptist convention is working together with Baptist Global Response in strategies for meeting the Haitian disaster with promptness, efficiency, and practical aid.

Our first water trailers and relief trucks left today for Jimani, where refugee camps are being established to handle the massive exodus from the fallen Capitol.

My team-leader for Santo Domingo, Steve Flook, is heading up the disaster relief team. I have asked to be placed on the front lines. I am young, strong, and single, so have nothing to lose. I can sleep short hours and am an efficient translator. During my summer internships in college I worked in impoverished squatter cities, did community organizing, translated in emergency rooms and cared for orphans, and even helped in the delivery of three babies. I know that God has prepared me for such a time as this.

Today I begin training in how to counsel victims of disaster and will learn to deal with post-traumatic stress disorder. The training is today and tomorrow.

Please pray for me as I join the Lord among the Least of These, our brothers.
Pray for my emotional health.
my spiritual health.
my physical health.

Pray that the Lord would use me as the hands and feet of Jesus among a broken people.
Pray against spiritual attack.

Greater love has no man than this...than he who lays down his life for his friends.

allison