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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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  how to break the cycle of poverty in haiti with art

  activist faith, haiti, missions, poverty, SERVE, the unlikely missionary 4 comments

  I wonder what went through his mind when he got the cash in his hand the first time. After all, the $500 microloan that he got was the equivalent of about 3-4 months worth of typical income for a man in his position. But along with this huge influx of [...]

   
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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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  there’s haiti mud on my shoes

  activist faith, haiti, missions, poverty, SERVE 12 comments

  Is it bad that I don’t want to wash the Haiti mud off of my shoes? Most of it is already gone anyway, but the thought of washing the rest of it off just breaks my heart. I should probably be a little embarrassed walking around in public with dirty  shoes. It’s [...]

   
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  book review: when helping hurts [how to alleviate poverty without hurting the poor ... and yourself]

  activist faith, book reviews, missions, poverty, READ 17 comments

  It was all starting to make perfect sense. I listened to stories about communities who didn’t seem to care about maintenance as I stood there in Haiti looking at a broken (and now unusable) well. I also heard stories about American missions teams coming to visit well projects they’ve funded, [...]

   
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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 [...]