Haiti
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Haiti: Idyllic Isle with a Few Worrisome Woes
Travelling Again! So once again I’m travelling, to wit: in Haiti – with all that implies. Upon arrival last Thursday I hit the ground running and have been until today, which is being used to catch up: doing laundry (by hand in a bucket, using…
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Goals for this 10-Day Trip to Haiti
Today I’m heading off to Port-au Prince, Haiti. Should be back next Friday. Goals for this trip include: Trying to find and meet with various children from the now-defunct Son of God orphanage to see how they are doing and encourage them in some way.…
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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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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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Pastor Pierre Wilnord
Adventures in Missions (AIM) has contacts with 650 churches in Haiti. That’s a lot of contacts! AIM has a program called “Church to Church” that facilitates churches in the US sponsoring churches in Haiti. So far they have about 35 American churches signed up to…
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Haiti–Jumbled Impressions
Wow. So much has happened in this last week. The trip to Haiti has really been amazing and eye-opening. I recommend for everyone go visit Haiti! Just arrived back in the U.S.A. a short bit ago and will be in Florida several days longer so…