2014
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My Poor Truck & Motorbike
The rainy season is upon us. Haiti has two rainy seasons: April-June and October-November. The rain nearly always comes at dusk or night. My truck was in the shop last weekend getting the clutch replaced so I had to drive my motorcycle around in the…
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My Life in Haiti Feels Kind of Like Camping Out
I love camping, and Haiti is a lot like camping. Here are some similarities: First off, we are out of electricity. Apparently the Port-au Prince electricity tree ran out of fruit. Never were many power outlets in the great old outdoors either, unless you’re closeby…
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The Funeral Which May Never Happen
I have a friend I met in Ravine Seche last summer. His name is Noah and he is 20 years old. He has a “wife” who is 18 years old. Her name is Berlin, and together they have a child who is 2 years old.…
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Work Injury
We have a machine called a dough sheeter. It has two big rollers that spin and the dough is passed between them to flatten it out. It’s a heavy duty contraption ran by a 13hp diesel engine. Our model was built here in Haiti and…
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I Visit an Orphanage
I visited an orphanage today. This orphanage has thirty-three kids ages 3-11. Here are some pictures. The poverty really affected me. This is the entrance. Walking into gate there is a little path you can see below. The orphanage is the building in the picture. …
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The Current State of the Discipleship and Bakery Programs (from my perspective)
A you may (or may not know) I am working within Heartline’s bakery/discipleship program. The first discipleship class finished on May 10th. We had a big graduation event and the guys were pretty excited! Looking back at how the first class went, we were a…
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Chikungunya & Air Conditioning
A new virus has swung into town. It is spread by mosquitoes, so you have to get bit to contract it. (full story on Fox) People who come down with chikungunya get a fever, rash, terrible body aches, etc. for about a week, though the…
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More Bank Fun
At one point I was having a hard time finding change, and I went to the bank to exchange large bills for small ones. I wrote a post about that. Now I’ve been having the reverse problem: I have too much change and small bills…
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My Brush With Hatian Healthcare
We were getting ready to start devotions when one of the young guys came in holding his hand and obviously in pain. I asked what the problem was and he said his little finger had got stuck in the door of a van and had…
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What is Rest? Harder than you’d think!
Rest. I’m thinking about it today. Rest is one of the 10 commandments, and is given in the Bible more than once: “Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the plowing season and harvest you must rest.”…