The following article was published recently in the Boston Globe. Haiti’s ongoing disaster By Donna J. Barry and Kimberly Cullen November 24, 2008 THE DUST has settled around College La Promesse Evangelique, the Haitian school that crumbled down on hundreds of students and their teachers earlier this month. The death toll of about 100, and the grief, helplessness, and anger of the affected...

Psalm 100 (The Message A Thanksgiving Psalm  1-2 On your feet now—applaud God!  Bring a gift of laughter,       sing yourselves into his presence.   3 Know this: God is God, and God,God.       He made us; we didn’t make him.        We’re his people, his well-tended sheep.  4 Enter with the password: “Thank you!”        Make yourselves...

We had to go into the nearby town of Cabaret yesterday morning to do some business and came face-to -face with this event. The school is down the street from the place we were visiting and there was a hege crowd as parents were gathering to try and make sure their children were OK and take them home. The police had the school on lockdown, not letting anyone in or out. We were told that one child had...

Spending time at the Bercy orphanage is a life-changing experience, to say the least.  People come to Haiti with all sorts of agendas … hoping to make a change of some sort, wanting to do something that will last, wanting to CHANGE Haiti.  That won’t happen.  What will happen is that your eyes will be opened to things you don’t understand … things you don’t want to...

We from South Jacksonville Baptist Church have been blessed abundantly for the opportunity given to us here at the orphanage. Some of us have gained a passion for the mission field and others have a passion to teach Christians in the US what true humility and contentment really looks like. Jesus’ message was purely wreckless abandonment– that we might sell all we had to purchase the field...

I love having kids underfoot when I’m working in the kitchen. I find it’s a great time for conversation and teaching. I’ve always had the children do homework, projects, whatever at the kitchen table, so I could oversee and lend a helping hand while I cooked and cleaned… and involved them in those projects, too. Now, my family is a bit larger… just a bit This afternoon...

We spent the last couple of days at the Florida Baptist Convention in Lakeland, Florida. “Beautiful Eyes” is an amazing gallery of portraits of individuals who live in our village of Bercy, Haiti. Susan Michal, an award winning portrait artist, visited the mission in 2006 and was enamoured with the haunting beauty of Haiti and her people. Susan created the portrait gallery to share their...

9 injured in 2nd Haiti school collapse Send Share Print By JONATHAN M. KATZ, Associated Press Writer – Wed Nov 12, 12:55 pm ET Play VideoAP  – Collapsed school demolished in Haiti Slideshow: School collapses in Haiti Play VideoVideo: Hope lost for survivors in Haiti school collapse AP Play VideoVideo: Owner of collapsed Haiti school arrested CBC.ca AP – Residents...

Please pray for the families involved in the tragic school collapse disaster in Port-au-Prince and for the rescue workers who have arrived from around the world.  We have been to Trinite Hospital- a trauma center operated by Doctors without Borders several times to take people in for emergency care. We have been told that the severely injured survivors are being transported there for assistance....