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Day 6 Haiti: It had to happen

August 30 2010 by Norman Jameson, BR Editor

It had to happen, I suppose. After a week of mass numbers, gross results and overwhelming needs assaulting every sense — 230,000 killed in 30 seconds; 1,300 refugee camps; 3,000 helping agencies at work among victims; 80 percent unemployment; 50 percent literacy; only 40 percent with access to clean water — I thought I'd grown heart callouses hard enough to deflect any emotional tugs while I w...

Day 5 Haiti: Rain at last

August 27 2010 by Norman Jameson, BR Editor

We’re in Haiti’s rainy season, which means “it rains sometimes,” according to Scott Daughtry, who coordinates the N.C. Baptist Men’s disaster relief effort here. Outside of the rainy season, it hardly ever rains and what you might think would be a tropical, lush paradise is more like the foothills above Colorado Springs — arid and dusty. But tonight it rained, dropping the temperature below 90...

Haiti Day 4: Shoes on orphans

August 26 2010 by Norman Jameson, BR Editor

We returned with a medical team to Victorious Kids Orphanage today where we delivered cots, blankets and toys yesterday. The children greeted us with genuine joy — new friends who had returned already to say hello. They did not make a show of it, or even mention it, but they all were wearing the colorful flip flops Chad Hodges’ wife, Amy, had packed and sent with him, along with a suitcase ful...

Day 3: Haiti shelters

August 25 2010 by Norman Jameson, BR Editor

At the end of the day I peered into a just completed 12 x 12 shelter to see Klely sitting on the table in the center of the shelter, three children by her side, a smile of pride and joy on her face no less luminescent than if she had just been given the keys to the city. She will share that shelter with her husband Jeanlues Macenat and their eight youngest children. Volunteers mostly fro...

Day 2 in Haiti: Gimme; Go

August 24 2010 by Norman Jameson, BR Editor

From the constant chorus of “Hey you! Give me” sung by every child who came to the clinics or construction sites in our first day ministering in Haiti, to the angry shout by a woman of “Allez, Allez" (Go, Go) as we drove away our first long day ministering in Haiti was a steady stream of adventure. It continued as we drove to the compound when we stopped with two doctors on board our ren...

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