orphan care

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  three reasons to follow the @helponenow haiti bloggers

  activist faith, haiti, missions, orphan care, poverty, SERVE, the unlikely missionary 10 comments

    I’ve had some very mixed emotions as I prepare for this trip with Help One Now’s Haiti Bloggers. At times I can hardly contain my excitement as I think about traveling to the place I’ve grown to love. Not to mention the people… some are Haitian friends who I [...]

   
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  here we go… @helponenow haiti bloggers 2012

  activist faith, haiti, missions, orphan care, poverty, SERVE, the unlikely missionary 26 comments

  I feel like I just woke up from one of those awesome dreams… you know the kind, when you wish you didn’t wake up. And in that moment of fogginess you’re not sure what’s reality and what’s part of the dream. So you spend a moment praying that what might [...]

   
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  how to build a playground… in haiti

  activist faith, haiti, missions, orphan care, SERVE, the unlikely missionary 10 comments

  It starts with a boy with a heart to do something special for others. “I want to send Christmas to the orphans in Haiti. I want them to have a playground,” says the 7 year-old who loves the children he’s never met. So we scramble to hold a garage sale [...]

   
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  tis the season for garage sales!

  orphan care, poverty, SERVE 8 comments

  We went yard sale shopping last weekend. It seemed like there was a different sale on every corner. People selling all sorts of stuff they no longer want or need. Nice things, ratty things, all sorts of things … after all, one person’s junk is another person’s treasure! I wanted [...]

   
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  haiti [micro]blogging for 2012-02-16

  activist faith, haiti, missions, orphan care, poverty, SERVE 1 comment

  RT @helpendpoverty: NEW POST: Haiti Trip Journal: When Your Sponsored Kid Doesn’t Show Up by @bibledude http://t.co/bzDflSFz # @samo4prez… @chrismarlow just confirmed that @lamarstockton and family will be moving to #capetown # last full day in Haiti, and as expected part of me doesn’t want to leave while the other [...]

   
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  my child sponsorship story: samuel saul of haiti

  activist faith, haiti, orphan care, poverty, SERVE 2 comments

  We finally did it! Our family just sponsored a child, and we couldn’t be more excited! It’s something that we’ve wanted to do for a long time. The only reason we haven’t done it sooner is because we just wanted to be very prayerful and intentional about who we sponsored. [...]

   
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  the #haiti diaries 2012 [a @helponenow trip]

  activist faith, haiti, missions, orphan care, poverty, SERVE 15 comments

  Since my last mission trip to Haiti, I couldn’t wait to get back. That was August 2010, just eight months after the earthquakes that shattered an already struggling nation. I’ve even made it down to the other side of the island, but my heart ached to be just across the [...]