Back home safe and sound, Dr. Frank Garlock and Sarah Bennett are still shake from the worst scare of their lives. "It just kept getting worse and worse," Bennett remembers. Now that they've returned to their homes in Greenville, the minister and missionary are reliving every moment of the disaster in Haiti. "The trees were shaking," Garlock says. "It felt like the wind was blowing, and I thought, this is a tornado!" Garlock and Bennett say the 20 second quake felt like forever. With buildings buckling everywhere, they managed to make it. "I turn to my left and a house fell down right there in front of me," Garlock says.
It wasn't for an entire day, they realized the depty of the destruction. Garlock captured it all on his camera. "Everywhere we went you just saw more and more devastation," Garlock remembers. "There was a school with 200 students, and only four escaped." Underneath the rubble, though, they got a reminder why they were there in the first place. "You could hear prayer meetings going on," Bennett says. "You could hear people singing."
That faith kept them strong for days, while family back home wondered whether they were alive. A stranger from a nearby orphanage came looking for them, and delivered the good news. "She gave them our and addresses and they said there they are," says Garlock. "Otherwise she would have never found us, and no one would know where we are," he says through tears. Grateful to be home, they'll never forget the experience. "I figured the Lord was going to work it out for us."
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