As you read this, I will just be getting my bearings in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, a place brought low by poverty—then crushed by last week’s earthquake.

On the way over, I was pretty apprehensive. The closest I’ve been to a major disaster was the Asia tsunami. I visited affected countries a few months after the crisis, and although the grief there was still fresh, stability and order reigned. In Haiti, I don’t know what to expect. The situation on the ground is highly fluid.

I hope to convey a simple message to suffering families—that World Vision, faithful donors, and the international community are all ready to help them as they climb from the rubble and rebuild their lives. World Vision has worked in Haiti for 30 years, and we’re not going anywhere. We will help communities recover over the coming months and years.

Please continue to pray for Haitian families who are grieving, for children separated from their parents, for exhausted relief workers toiling around the clock. I’ll write when I can to share what I see and experience.