Category: haiti
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A Hodgepodge
This week I’m in Les Cayes, Haiti working alongside Praying Pelican Missions, a local church, and three North American churches– one from South Carolina, one from Connecticut, and the other from Windsor, Ontario. I was walking with Caroline, the trip leader, earlier this morning and we described this as a “hodgepodge group.” There’s not a…
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Little Old Me
Do you ever have any concept of how small you are? We aren’t even dots on a map. In the course of human history your 72 years are nothing. Not even a waypoint in the 21st century. I barely know my own culture, what kind of arrogance do I have to have to think I…
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Off to Haiti
Tonight, I’m catching a flight that’ll have me back on the ground in Port-au-Prince, Haiti by Saturday morning. For the next week I’ll be tagging along with three teams to a more remote area of Haiti than I’ve ever been, Les Cayes. After arriving in Port-au-Prince in the morning I’ll spend a few hours at…
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What Haiti Taught Me About Nepal
Tony Jones wrote this: A standard issue in theodicy has been an attempt to protect the sovereignty of God. Consider that theological shorthand for the omni’s: omnipotence, omniscence, and omnipresence. Combine that with God’s benevolence and immutability, and you’ve got a divine being who’s a lot closer to Plato’s Nous than to Moses’ Yahweh. What if, instead, God…
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Trip Friends
In my experience we tease people we like. By that measure the Haiti Vision Team really likes one another. Wrapping up my third vision trip with PPM is bittersweet. It’s bitter because I love the people. It was so awesome to see a lot of pastors I’ve visited before, to catch up with them about…
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The hammock, the wind, the silence
Relaxing in my hammock after a long day of travel and getting to know our group, including meeting with a Pastor over on the opposite end of Port-at-Prince, cool breezes wash over me… Relaxing me as my mind wanders in every direction at once. I’d never take a cold shower at home but I love…
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More than a “missions experience”
Late tomorrow night I board an overnight flight for Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Once there I’ll spend the next four days with a dozen pastors and youth pastors from across the United States who are coming to explore bringing a team to Haiti with Praying Pelican Missions. I have a confession to make: Going to Haiti doesn’t…
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Come build partners in Haiti with me
Today’s Throwback Thursday reaches all the way back to April 2014. And it comes with an invitation to join me on a trip in April 2015. Backstory of this picture The gentleman in this photo is the pastor of the church located in the mountains above the city of Jacmel in southern Haiti. He and his…
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Haiti Vision Trip 2015
I made my first trip to Haiti in February 2010, shortly after the earthquake that devastated much of Port-au-prince and it’s sister city Carrefour. In that first trip, amidst all of the devastation and loss of life, my life was forever changed by the undeniable sense that God was at work in Haiti’s darkest hour.…
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The Christmas Cows Have Arrived
Over the past couple of years I’ve visited Good Shepherd Orphanage several times. And at each visit, usually as I helped show teams of youth workers around her compound, Sister Mona has told groups about her annual Christmas party. The party is simple… they invite every kid in the neighborhood who wants to come, to…