Recently, a pastor shared with me an interaction he had with someone as he prepared to go with us on a mission trip to Haiti. He told the man he would be unavailable because he would be out of the country for a week. The man asked him where he was a going. “Haiti”, the pastor replied. The man looked at him seriously and asked, “Haiti? Is that still going on?”  The stories...

 For first timers, this mission trip is eye-opening on so many levels and at times reveals and exposes our individual stress points of being out of our own familiar world.  Our team of 12 has taken on several projects throughout the week from scrubbing walls and painting bathrooms to sorting and organizing shoes, clothes and supplies.  The most rugged among us took down chain link fencing and dug...

Last Friday we had a medical team run a clinic in a massive tent city named Obama Village.  They served over 200 people per day for two days, and one of the patients they had was 9 months pregnant and her water broke while she was standing in line.  Our doctors checked her out and said she wasn’t in labor and needed to go to the hospital to deliver the baby.  They came back the next day and she...