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Haiti Eathquake: January 22 Update

The devastation and need in Haiti to this point has been overwhelming and unimaginable. To hear stories of children's voices fading in the rubble, earth mover operators trying to relay in words the toll that burying tens of thousands of bodies in mass graves in the hillsides outside of Port Au Prince, countless children now orphaned, wives and husbands who lost their entire families, and doctors and nurses laboring on the ground around the clock with no resources doing whatever they can to help, is all beyond any despair that we can comprehend.

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January 25, 2010 | 0 Comments | View or add comments
Some Supplies Reaching the Need, Others Not

I just spoke to our partner in Haiti, Espior Por Haiti (Living Hope Mission) a ministry based in Cap Haitien, for the first time since the earthquake. They have already sent one truckload of supplies down to Port Au Prince. The truck was able to make it down safe and is on its way back to Cap Haitien at this time.


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January 15, 2010 | 0 Comments | View or add comments
November 8th - 11th Haiti Hope Adventure

The whole time I was in Haiti, even just walking around Ounaminthe, I felt God saying to me over and over, "These are my people who I love." It made me cry on more than one occasion.

"Will I answer the call?"

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February 25, 2009 | 0 Comments | View or add comments
August 2008 Haiti Construction Trip

The recent trip of one of our Hope Adventure teams was a resounding success. Find out how God did a wonderful work through this team to help repair a school building despite an impending hurricane and other trip surprises.

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September 16, 2008 | 0 Comments | View or add comments
Haiti Update

What a neat thing it’s been to see the progression of the work here—especially seeing the improved health of the kids in just over a year of good diets, care and medicine. Many of whom were underweight, and quite twirl-able/throw-able on our first trip back in August ’06, are now far too big for successive rocket-ship rides.

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February 4, 2008 | 0 Comments | View or add comments
First Haiti Experience

A lifetime of travel has brought me to thousands of places in some 52 countries. Ouanaminthe, Haiti is the most desperate I have ever laid eyes on...

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December 5, 2007 | 3 Comments | View or add comments
Haitian Holiday

This was a very special trip for me, because I was traveling with legendary folk singer, little league coach, movie writer, putt-putt golf course designer and optometrist extraordinaire, Dr. Benji Brumberg aka Horrell McGann. This would be our first trip to Haiti together, and the thought of uniting two Brumberg's on the same trip promised great adventure, excitement and the possibility of a major international incident.

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December 3, 2007 | 0 Comments | View or add comments
Looking For Life in Haiti

phil_100pxBeing human, having the right to exist, is the beauty of creation. God in his infinite mercy created humanity with the utmost dignity and worth. And when that's rejected, when human life is cast aside as just a means for survival, then leaving a 2 year old-HIV positive-little boy in the woods is normal. This is your end. Look around the world. When humanity isn't seen as the culmination and ultimate wonder of God's creation...Things get really ugly.

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August 22, 2007 | 0 Comments | View or add comments
Rebuke the Slump!

haitipiggyback_250pxDespite my silliness and general discomfort with intimacy, I wish I could sit down with each one of you and share how I've been forever changed by the pastors, orphans, widows, leprosy victims etc. I've met and the things I've seen during my time here at HG. Haunting isn't quite the right word to describe these images I have in my brain, it's something more intense and urgent than that. I don't know what to say other than I feel really close to these folks who have given their lives to serve the 'least of these'--namely orphans, widows, the sick, downtrodden or anyone else in need.

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July 27, 2007 | 3 Comments | View or add comments
Dis(Comfort) in Haiti

denise_haiti_blog_2007_100px As a Project Manager by trade, I am accustomed to having a plan and critical path for every significant task I undertake, therefore giving me some semblance of control in a situation. My recent fact finding trip to Haiti really tested my resolve and the ability to relinquish my usual “white knuckled grip” of a situation and let God’s purpose shine.

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July 10, 2007 | 0 Comments | View or add comments
OK, So I'm Not a Good Travel Guide...

When we finally got to the hospital, we got Denise admitted quickly and some much needed meds came her way. After taking said meds, she felt much better and became an instant hospital classic—providing some much needed levity for our weary team by naming her bug bites, wheeling around the hospital with a big smile, and cheerily befriending other patients and doctors.

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June 17, 2007 | 0 Comments | View or add comments
Her Peace was Other-Worldly

In the end, it wasn’t kidnappers, bandits, malaria or even an auto accident that got us, but a slippery floor. Denise, who is a cancer-survivor and one of the toughest, bravest people you’re likely to meet, took a horrific spill our second night in Haiti. Unable to move and in unbelievable pain, Denise suffered as we wondered what to do. Though she was able to pull herself up into bed for the night, she was almost completely incapacitated and suffering in terrible pain as there was no doctor, no ambulance, and no hospital to be had. Trever, a war-hero and former paramedic, became a hero one more time as he spent the night with Denise, praying for hours, calming her and being there for her through the seemingly endless night. He diagnosed her as probably having a broken tailbone, but there was a possibility of spinal chord damage.

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June 16, 2007 | 0 Comments | View or add comments
Our Troubles Were Only Beginning

haiti_gals_100 Relieved to be cruising through cotton-ball cumulus clouds en route to the US of A, I replayed in disbelief the events of our tumultuous week in Hispaniola. True, you kinda had to be there to appreciate the depth and magnitude of the impact this trip had on all of our lives, but believe me when I tell you that the four of us will never be the same.

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June 15, 2007 | 0 Comments | View or add comments
Interview With a Pirate

Greetings! We have arrived safely in the Caribbean on our way to see Hopegivers' Haiti work. Already, I've had a great stroke of good fortune. As fate would have it, I ran into a living legend today-the last living Pirate of the Caribbean-right at our own Hope Home in Haiti. Fortunately for us, Bottle-Nose Bob renounced looting, killing, and general pirate naughtiness when he became a believer in 2005, and has since spent the last two years as a helper at the home.

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June 10, 2007 | 0 Comments | View or add comments

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