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My Heart is Hurting
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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:…
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What’s Been Happening, Not Neccesarily How I Feel About It
I’ve been eating fumes this last week so finally made a run to the grocery store. It was down to the last crumbs at my apartment. Literally, I had crackers and chocolate chips for my mandatory snack last night. I’ve been living off Taco Bell,…
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Home Is Where Your Toothbrush Is
That’s what my brother Luke always says, and I think it’s true. When I got back to Wichita after five weeks of being gone I first went by my parents house because I had given them the key to my apartment. But then I got…
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Got Mud?
So this is what we looked like before leaving on our cave adventure: And this is what we looked like after exiting El Cavo de Muddo: And this was taken at a scenic overlook on our way back: I know this blog is…
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Joseph As A Figure of Christ
The message last night was on Joseph. In particular, the message was on self-control and the life of Joseph was used as an example. Some people would debate whether Joseph is a “type” of Christ so we will use the term “figure” instead because there…
