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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.”…
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Haiti Can Bring Things Down to Their Common Denominator
One thing about life in Haiti is that life often seems boiled down to common denominators. Take food, for example. Are not rice and beans two “building block” foods? Are not beans supposed to be put into burritos along with guacamole, lettuce, tomatoes, finely grated…
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A Few Frustrating Anecdotes from My Life
Sometimes I feel like my life is one big computer game with the difficulty level set on, “Hard.” Visiting the bank today felt that way. There were around 50 people in line in front of me, and I waited there an hour and a half…
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Baptism
Awhile ago, three of the guys in the bakery/discipleship program made decisions to follow Christ with their lives (Richemond, Wilson, and Manno). As a result, they wanted to get baptized. Moise and I started looking around to find a place where we could do a…
