Regulars here will know the amazing providence of God in forging a partnership with an indigenous network of church plants in Haiti under the direction of Odanis Joseph, whom God placed in our church family after the devastating earthquake in 2010. Over the past two years, we have provided immediate relief to orphans, formed partnerships [...]
Archive for the ‘Haiti’ category
Libere 2012: A 40 Day Opportunity to Bless Haitian Orphans
November 22, 2011Reflections on Haiti Mission (June 2011)
June 29, 2011This past week, I had the privilege of taking a team from Bowling Green, KY to Haiti to partner with a church in Saint-Marc, Haiti (here’s a satellite image of the mountain village where the church gathers). This was my third trip to Haiti in the past 9 months since we started our mission work [...]
Haiti Bound
June 20, 2011This morning, I’m leaving for my third trip to Haiti. In case you’re wondering about how my relationship with Haiti got started, these posts will give you a good idea. I’m particularly excited about this trip for two reasons: 1. This is the first trip where I will be leading a team from another church [...]
Off to Haiti
January 3, 2011For the next ten days, I will be with 8 other men from Grace working in Haiti to train 50 Haitian pastors in a gospel conference and rebuild a church building destroyed in the earthquake. For those of you not aware of the back story, read these blogposts (here, here, and here). Pastor Joseph, our [...]
How NOT to Help the Poor
November 18, 2010One of the biggest dilemmas right now in places like Haiti is the unintended consequences of crisis relief without long-term vision for indigenous empowerment and cultural revitalization. For example, see Exhibit A from this past week. A book that I have been reading that is incredibly helpful (and a manual for our work in Haiti) [...]
This Picture Tells It All
September 28, 2010I did not realize that I had captured this shot until I got back to the states. Since then, I have been unable to get it off my mind (click on the image to see a larger version). The expressions are gripping. Prayerful faith. Confident trust. Transcendent joy. Further back there is expressions of uncertainty, [...]
Can Anything Good Come Out of Haiti? Part 3
September 27, 2010–> Part 1. –> Part 2. While in Haiti, I learned some things that made a big impression on me, some of them I want to share with you. But before I do that, I want to mention that I am giving a 2-part report to my church on my experience in Haiti. The report [...]
Can Anything Good Come Out of Haiti? Part 2
September 23, 2010–> Part 1. You know about those emails from pastors or church leaders in another country asking for help? I get them all the time. Call me skeptical, but I’m pretty sure that most of them are not legit. So when I got an email from a pastor in Haiti in town looking for a [...]
Can Anything Good Come Out of Haiti? Part 1
September 22, 2010I’ve been back from Haiti for four days now. It hasn’t been easy to get back into the swing of things, and I’m not sure that it is supposed to after the sights and sounds of being in a third world country. I have been to numerous countries on short-term mission trips, but going to [...]
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