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Tom
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Date Joined Jul 2001
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Posted Today 9:24 AM (GMT -6)

Isn't the Haiti group due back in today? This weekend? Well, after they unpack and sign in to check out the site, here's a welcome home sign for 'em:

WELCOME HOME ALL!

Tom

"No one's ever eaten a donut hole because they don't exist." Starkman

Edited by - TGB on 11/09/2002 2:28:56 PM

churchmouse522
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Posted 11/11/2002 1:02 PM (GMT -6)

Thanks Tom!

It was a very intense trip. Thanks everyone for your prayers.

I'm very very very busy, so I won't have a chance to check in very much. Just know that I appreciate you all.

Churchmouse

Electra
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Posted 11/12/2002 6:44 AM (GMT -6)

Thank you for your prayers.

I am a very slow processor and spending a week in Haiti was a very intense experience, so I'll be ready to describe it sometime next year.

I will just say this: I gained three pounds in Haiti. In spite of their poverty and hunger, the Haitian people we visited overflowed with generosity toward others and gratitude toward God. I was very humbled.

Electra

Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons. Matt. 10:8

whasssuuuppp
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Date Joined Aug 2001
Total Posts : 210

Posted 11/13/2002 5:13 AM (GMT -6)

Hi Tom,
Thanks for remembering us! I had an incredible couple weeks. It's been hard to be back "home" in the U.S. because I consider Haiti to be home, too. Thanks for all the prayers.

And for Electra and Mouse: Are you serious?

*****************

Springs
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Posted 11/18/2002 5:38 PM (GMT -6)

Thanks for the welcome home Tom. And thanks to everyone who kept the team in your prayers. The trip was a great heartache and a great blessing at the same time.

I give thanks to Providence Ministries for the honor of sharing their burden. I am amazed at the huge work God has created out of their faithfulness in small things. I praise God for the love he pours through Providence to a forgotten people in a scarred and broken land. The bones of Haiti will always cry out to my soul. May the hills rise up in new life and stop the mighty waters from turning the land to stone and dust.

Springs

Springs
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Posted 11/18/2002 6:33 PM (GMT -6)

As our plane descended on the island we could see miles of brilliant blue water. It was breathtakingly gorgeous till we got to the coast and the color turned dark and polluted along the shores. The first vista the land revealed to our eyes were the roof-tops of rusted tin shacks as far as the eye could see. The were stacked side by side, front to back, without a crack for anything green. They spoke of heat and despair without respite. Beyond them lay the city, broken down and dusty.

Our land rovers jostled for position on a road barely big enough for two vehicles side by side, yet accommodating that, and so much more. There were people everywhere. People, three deep on both sides of the road, coming and going from tin shacks and busted cement buildings. Going to work, coming from school, selling their wares, and everybody on the move with a purposeful step. It was mind boggling. It wasn’t just the way they walked with dignity, it was the clothes they wore. Women in neat dresses, men wearing suits and ties, girls in party dresses, and boys in chinos, all looking very crisp and clean making their way along the road in the dirt. How does a city whose streets are filled with garbage and brackish water produce people like these? This was the first of many questions that plagued my mind, distorted my sense of reality, and tore at my heart.

I am not surprised that those who returned couldn’t find the words to express what they experienced. I have been haunted all week since coming home.

Pray for Mouse who returned home to as much sadness as she left behind. I don’t think she’ll mind if I share what she wrote of Haiti:

I am never reminded so much of heaven and hell as when I am here in Haiti. It is a country of jarring contrasts. I never cry as many tears or laugh as often as when I set my foot here. I have never seen more beauty or such amazing horror. It is the home I long for and yet it is unbearable to stay.

PotOnWheel
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Posted 11/18/2002 6:56 PM (GMT -6)

(My wife's home denomination is very rural, spread through small towns in PA, OH and IN. But they now have churches in NYC and Brooklyn, NY. The Haitians to whom they have sent missionaries have hit shore. "What goes around comes around.")

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