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Continue reading →: Scenes from Our School Lunch Program
These pictures are from our church plant’s school across town from us in Ste-Philomène, Haiti. They are also benefiting from the school lunch program. As you can see in the last pictures, teachers get to eat, too (and they deserve it)!
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Continue reading →: Time to Eat!
Great news! The long-awaited school lunch program has begun! Two days a week, 1,250 students will be eating lunch at school because of your generous giving!
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Continue reading →: Rise and Build!The first gathering place we ever had was an old army tent given to us by a fellow missionary. After the tent was ripped to pieces by the hurricane winds that frequent Haiti, we built a structure made of concrete blocks and covered it with a thatched roof. After years…
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Continue reading →: Fighting Poverty
In Haiti, the telltale signs are everywhere. There are babies with protruding stomachs that cry excessively; crying for food that isn’t there. Their anxious mothers hoist them up and down on their knees and coo in their ears, trying in vain to provide some kind of empty solace. Many young children sit quietly. Their…
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Continue reading →: Speaking at Fort Bragg
Last night we met with the group of believers that meet at Fort Bragg’s Airborne and Artillery Memorial Chapel. Lt. Col. Tim Atkinson serves as their chaplain. We shared the testimony once again concerning Prit’s healing and were warmly received. It was obvious that many of them had faced trials of their own…
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Continue reading →: We Made It!
Dear Readers, We are very happy to announce that our feeding goal for this school year has been met! Thanks to everyone who had a part to play in this endeavor. And guess who’s the happiest of all? Max, our “status update” dog!! P.S. Don’t worry! If you wanted a…
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Continue reading →: Changes
The last few weeks have gone by like a whirlwind! We had a great Christmas with two of our children (John & Deb) while Gabriel worked through the holidays in Portland. Gabe came in on January 11 and we celebrated Christmas again! Last Wednesday, we took off and met John…
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Continue reading →: Earthquake Anniversary
Dear Readers, I have been reflecting on the travesty of Haiti’s earthquake on January 12, 2010. Wanting to post something in its remembrance, I have come up dry. Frankly, there are just no words to capture all the vivid memories and sounds racing through my mind of that fateful day.…
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Continue reading →: It’s Not the End of the World
Guest post by Rev. Rollie Simmons. Well, here we are in another year where the world is apparently supposed to end according to the ancient Mayan calendar. Did you know that there is an official 2012 end of the world website? (Please don’t go find it.) I noticed that it…
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Continue reading →: Twenty-Nine and Counting…
Twenty-nine years ago today, Prit and I left Tarboro, N.C. to move to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Following the call to missions, we said goodbye to our Rock Church family and left the familiar for the unfamiliar. Leaving the peaceful, lazy countryside, we later landed at the Maïs Gaté airport in the…
