My heart aches. I have a massive lump in my throat and feel like crying. I’ve been transported from a place of incarnate misery and oppression to a place of incarnate joy and love. I remember when I was a kid we lived in this house where every time someone flushed the toilet the shower …
Monthly Archives: September 2011
Bon Bagay! A Missionary Interview
“Haiti is known as a missionary graveyard. The burnout rate here is high.” I was talking with a long-term missionary about what he found most discouraging working in Haiti over the years. He continued, “When the going gets rough, people often bail. It’s discouraging to see fellow workers beat down and ‘run out of town.’ …
The Power of a Smile
Here in Haiti there is so much need everywhere it is overwhelming… hard to know what would truly help. Not sure if I helped much during my time at the orphanage, but at least I helped put a few smiles on their faces. I taught the kid sitting next to me in the picture above …
Quick Update From a Different World
Today is my 9th day in Carrefour, Haiti. This is the first day I’ve had internet, and amazingly, on my laptop no less. I’m on wi-fi in a small internet café now. Creole music is blazing, it’s quite warm (i.e. blazing hot), and I’m sitting at a rustic table. The internet is veeeery slow. Like …
To Inf-haiti and Beyond
I’m in the Chicago airport. Turns out they have 20 minutes of internet here for free. And more internet if you want to pay for it. On a serious note, at times recently I’ve wondered if this trip to Hispaniola was all my initiative or if God was in it at all? On my flight …
Tumblr-ing through Cyberspace
I prefer this blog be kept mainly for original content rather than reposting stuff I find online. However, I’m always finding cool little tidbits online so the decision was made to branch into yet a new foray of internet publishing: Tumblr. Check it out here: http://simplefollower.tumblr.com/ Now I have Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, a Blog and …