It has been a good last four weeks back in Haiti but there have been some tough stuff and disappointments. One the biggest being that the team from our home church (Faith CRC) in Holland, Michigan and some good friends were not able to come due to the continuing Level...
We are back in Haiti after a two and a half week unplanned exit from Haiti due to violent protests and civil unrest in parts of Haiti. We did not want to leave but agreed that it was the best decision at the time given the situation and other circumstances. We are now...
Returning from our furlough in mid January was kind of a big deal in the sense of how it would “feel.” After all we had lived in Haiti for only two months and then headed back home for the holidays. Would we be ready to come back? Would we enjoy being back in our new...
After a wonderful furlough, we are rested and ready to return to Haiti and resume our participation in the great work God is doing through organizations like Many Hands for Haiti. Our blog this month will be shorter and simply highlight some of the things that we were...
The Haitians have a word that we have really come to appreciate. The word is degaje and it is best defined as, figure it out/do whatever it takes to keep going. It is problem solving at its best and we have witnessed some great examples of ingenuity, such as the...
Living in Haiti for four weeks now can literally and figuratively be describe as a new “season” of life for us. Haiti does not have the four seasons of Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter that so many parts of the world have (we did miss seeing the Autumn...
