Christi Gabhart speaks pointedly into two questions that are on different sides of the same coin. The first is, “How does one manage simply to live in the dire poverty seen across Haiti?” Followed by, “How does anyone working in humanitarian aid cope with poverty...
While the title of this month’s blog are words used at Christmas time the thoughts of cooler temps and even some snow on the ground are just that….thoughts. It’s hot in Haiti right now! The temperature range in Haiti does not vary much year round. It typically gets in...
Hi, I’m Tom Johnson, the Spiritual Development Manager/Missiologist for MH4H and a Reformed Church in America career missionary. My responsibilities are to assist the spiritual component of Many Hand’s transformational activities in Haiti. One aspect to my work is...
Author Robin Moore said, “Inside each of us is a natural born story-teller, waiting to be released.” A picture may be “worth a thousand words,” producing raw emotion in the viewer but do not be fooled – it is the words of a carefully crafted story that shape...
On Friday the team was helping with a concrete floor. Throughout the morning, we had seen a few women going back and forth from the house to a water source somewhere, coming back with jugs on their heads full of water for the concrete. I decided to go with the women...
Boarding the plane to Haiti It has been 12 days since I wrote our first family blog on July 10. Twelve days of transformation and change, of highs and lows, and all the joys and messiness of life. It is amazing to me how time, which is constant, seems to speed up or...
