The Presidential Palace that was flattened during the January 12th earthquake.                        Talking to some locals in front of the Presidential Palace.  They shared with us their experiences since the earthquake.  Many are looking for jobs and of course, food and more permanent shelter.             Signs of revival are everywhere in Port Au Prince.  This crisis has brought thousands of Haitians to God.  They can be heard singing his praises daily.                         Coming...

Mark Oestreicher has gone on trips with Adventures In Missions for years. Most recently he has been working with AIM in Haiti and he recently wrote this post on the work he is doing with AIM. He allowed us to re-post it. The original article can be here. I think I miscalculated something. Please hear me on this: what I’m about to explain is not an attempt to guilt anyone or manipulate. I thought about how I should write about this, and realized that my blog isn’t about spin, and that I should just say what’s on my mind. So here it is, my miscalculation… I...

Ktadb, one of the hundreds of tent cities in Port au Prince, is at once the poorest place I’ve been, as well as the richest. It’s an ugly, sad place filled with beauty and joy. This community of 3,500 should be drowning in despair, but instead, there is faith. When my AIM team arrived, four and a half months had passed since the January 12th earthquake. As far as we knew, no one had been to Ktadb to distribute supplies during that time. There were almost 600 shelters there, but not a single tent or any tarps in sight. All of the shelters were built with sticks lashed together and...

Pastor Wilnord Pierre is one of the many pastors in AIM’s Church-to-Church Initiative. He also runs a school under a tarp where about 90 children attend each day.  He shares about his church in the aftermath of the earthquake To find out more about how your church can be a part of rebuilding Haiti by supporting a Haitian church community, go here.