Over the last week I’ve been preparing for our trip back to Haiti. For some reason I was unsettled about coming back. There was some anxiety and I NEVER feel anxiety about coming home. It was 2am and I had the TV on in the background while I was booking tickets for a brand new […]
There Will Be A Day
I found myself in tears today. I know – shock of all shocks! LOL! I was driving back from the mission office today and this song came on the radio. When I first listened to the chorus I found peace thinking that one day all of the pain in Haiti will be gone. All these […]
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We Are The World….
Love the new version of this and how they incorporate Haiti into it.
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His Personal Assistant….
Jose and I met with a psychologist this morning. We wanted to talk about how to deal with what has happened in Haiti and how it’s affected our family, the staff, and the Haitians. I won’t go into a lot of details but did find some comfort in talking to him. There was something that […]
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Our Adventure to the States…
My family started our adventure on Friday, February 5th at 6:30am. We got on the bus and headed to Port-de-Paix. We loaded Tortuga Air at 8am and flew to Cap Haitian. We then loaded another plane to Turks and Caicos at 3pm. We spent the night there. The hotel was nice. Some of the medical […]
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Search Continues at Hotel Montana
January 31, 2010 – 5:04 PM | by: Michael Sorrentino We had a brief trip to the Hotel Montana site today. Of all the recovery efforts I’ve seen so far, this is the most productive and well organized. There was a constant flow of trucks carrying out rubble that has been sifted through and then […]
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Who Will They Light Their Lamp For?
Whenever you really look hard enough – you can always find beauty in the midst of tragedy. As thousands and thousands of refugees make their way north (we are the 2nd largest zone to receive refugees) the churches here are swelling. People are looking for answers to this tragedy and so they’re coming to the […]
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Tragedy of individual Haitians risks overshadowing chronic health problems
By Alfred Sommer Special to The Washington Post Tuesday, February 2, 2010 For the first two weeks, we watched the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake with a combination of horror and hope: horror over the widespread devastation and hope whenever one more living soul was retrieved from the rubble. Captivated as we’d been by the […]
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God Is The Same Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow….
Today has been one of those days where you feel like there is too much going on to absorb everything. My day actually started late last night. There was wailing happening outside my house. It was so loud that it scared the children. It was coming from right inside the gate. So I put my […]
Filed Under: NW_Personal Ministry Update, Personal Stories
