Author: Adventures

In Haitian Creole Marassa means “the twins”. It is also the name for a couple of tent communities residing side-by-side on the outskirts of Port-Au-Prince, each containing approximately 2,500 residents in a low lying riverbed area. Thursday we took enough supplies to the twins to provide 15,000 meals of rice and beans. The load weighed so much that the machine bearing this precious cargo suffered two flats and a double blow out while trying to traverse the city, leaving us stranded for hours on the roadsides of Port-Au-Prince with a temperamental truck determined to no longer...

His forsaking occurred before the nation was shaken to its core but because of his disowning an orphanage full of girls had their lives spared. Charlie is just an infant. Logically he should have never been brought to the Fleury Foundation: he is too young. Normally the girls who live there would not be found outside in a field under the blazing sun but that is where the happened to be when the earthquake destroyed their home, their church, their school, their hospital and their bakery. They were learning how to care for their new baby brother. All 46 girls were spared that day, in a city...

“It was like walking through the book of Acts” is how one of our participants recently described his day of ministry here in Haiti. At Pastor Mercy’s church American men worked alongside Haitian men to lay a foundation for their new building. In another spot on site a team member shared his testimony with several interested listeners. Another participant was surrounded by children and the joyful sounds of Papa Abrahim reverberated across the land. Others worked hand in hand with a medical team from a different organization to see physical needs being met. And still others...