Merry Christmas!
December 23, 2009 Haiti Partners wishing you a Merry Christmas with a quick song from Haiti Partners Youth Choir.
HAITI PARTNERS Celebrates Birthday
December 4, 2009 We celebrated Haiti Partners birth last evening! Members of our board, supporters and other friends joined us for a fun evening that we hope was also informative. Click here for a write-up and photos in local Vero Beach News
“I WANT”
December 4, 2009 Here’s author and Haiti Partners co-director reading from his new book in a two-minute Haiti video titled “I WANT.” A couple ways to get a copy of Kent’s book right away: Sign up as a Change for Haiti Partner on our website ($1 a day), and we’ll send you a signed copy. […]
Cite Soleil Community School
November 29, 2009 Haiti Partners is privileged to partner with Cite Soleil Community School.
Who Holds the Microphone?
by John Engle Several months ago someone broke into the church near where I live when I’m in Haiti and stole the sound system—a speaker and a microphone. Of course, my immediate reaction was disappointment. (Who would rob a poor church?) Yet I couldn’t help thinking it might also be a disguised blessing for the […]
The People Brought Children to Jesus…
by Kent Annan They brought children to Jesus hoping he might touch them. The disciples shooed them off. But Jesus was irate and let them know it: “Don’t push these children away. Don’t ever get between them and me. These children are at the very center of life in the kingdom. Mark this: Unless you […]
The Hope of Faith
By Shelly Satran Sunday worship at our local church is scheduled to start at 10:00 a.m., yet we never know when the service will actually begin. Sometimes my husband and I show up on time…and wait two hours. Other times we arrive just a little late…and the sermon is already finishing. For me, a time-and-schedule-oriented […]
Sharing God’s Living Words
By Kent Annan Ten young men and women, all in their twenties and thirties, arrive on foot or by bike and sit in a circle of chairs arranged on the dirt floor of a pink elementary school building in Dabòn, a town a couple of hours outside Port-au-Prince. The walls don’t go all the way […]
Security Beyond Walls
By Shelly Satran As political tensions here rise, I have been asked a few times whether I live in a compound in Haiti. It isn’t a bad question; many government and nonprofit organizations here operate and/or live inside a compound. However, Beyond Borders and its sister organization, Limyè Lavi, have chosen to seek security in […]
Right Heart, Wrong Technique
by Kent Annan The recent scene started harmlessly enough. A woman visiting Haiti from North America brought a small bag of inexpensive gifts (candy, key chains, etc.) to hand out to those she met. A crowd formed around her, and soon the reaching hands grew more numerous than her gifts. With her bag empty, she […]
