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Lessons from #Haiti

Final day in Haiti…and I’m wiped out. We just took the longest hike of my life (7 hours) and spent time with some incredible kids and one really wonderful pastor. The progress on the school being built was great to see, too. What I took in the most was very similar to the themes of [ READ MORE ]

2 Pencils and a Lot of Love in #Haiti

This morning after we ate oatmeal and had coffee, we headed over to one of the schools that we built in Marfranc, Haiti. We went there to connect with the children and also to bring them school supplies and vitamins. We take these things for granted but Haitians certainly don’t. In a country where the [ READ MORE ]

Grateful in #Haiti

Last night we were all sitting on the porch of the Kay Bo Rivye (our house in Haiti) we started talking about poverty. Now when I speak of poverty I’m not talking about poverty that most of us in the US have EVER seen. This is not poverty that the Occupy Wall Street movement understands [ READ MORE ]

Ranpli enpuisans an #Ayiti

Nou te gen yon vwayaj étonant kalm an Ayiti. Sa se yon bagay ki ra! Vwayaje nan yon nasyon nan mond twazyèm (peyi ki pi pòv nan Emisfè nan Western) se pa yon bagay fasil fè. Sekirite an se diferan ak avyon yo pa sou orè ak pis aterisaj yo pa egzakteman menm jan ak [ READ MORE ]

Complete Helplessness in #Haiti

We had an amazingly uneventful trip to Haiti. That is a rare thing! Traveling to a third world nation (the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere) is not an easy thing to do. Security is different and planes aren’t on schedule and runways aren’t exactly like runways at ORD (think grass, gravel, and a goat [ READ MORE ]

Haiti, Pat Robertson, and Following Jesus

Yesterday, Port-au-Prince, Haiti experienced their worst earthquake in 200 years.  It registered at 7.0 on the Richter Scale, and there have been many aftershocks since that have further terrified a shaken and already deeply impoverished nation.  The scope of the earthquake is frighteningly vast, having been felt all over Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and in [ READ MORE ]

New Life for Haiti

Just yesterday I got back from a week long odyssey to Haiti.  I went with a group named New Life for Haiti, headed up by my friend, Pastor Fran Leeman.  We flew from Chicago to Miami, then on to Port-au-Prince.  We stayed overnight at the Matthew 25 house, which is run by a great couple, [ READ MORE ]

Hope for the Holidays 2009

At NCC, we are always talking about how our actions need to line up with our words.  Words without action are devoid of power.  Words without action are just lip-service.  Words without action are just empty promises. We are so excited to announce that we are hosting the 2nd annual fair-trade bazaar.  Actions, matching words! [ READ MORE ]

A Dangerous Faith

What is the “American Dream,” anyway?  I think somewhere along the way someone decided that the best thing in the world would be to have a nice house, of course, incomplete without the obligatory white picket fence.  The house would be in the suburbs with unlimited rolling green grass (not too long though, or your [ READ MORE ]

“Just” Ideas

I came across this article and I would like to share it with you. NCC’s Bluff Park Experience is still relatively fresh in my mind and this only stokes my fire. What would happen if we did something like this? Makes my heart leap at the possibility. Peace, Neil Just Ideas: Be A Home for [ READ MORE ]

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