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January 9, 2008
Off to Haiti
Filed under: Abare News
Jamaica and I take off on a red-eye flight tonight with my brother Mark. The three of us are flying to Miami where we will meet up with the rest of my family. There will be nine of us flying from Miami to Port-au-Prince tomorrow. We'll be in Haiti working with an indigenous organization that was originally started by some family friends who live in Canada. For the next eight days we'll be serving in a medical clinic, orphanage, schools and churches. This Saturday we'll get to witness a Haitian wedding.
What brings us here is a dream we had about 11 months ago when we decided as a family to give up our Christmas presents and presence this past year and instead pool our resources together for this trip.
This won't be an easy journey for us spoiled Americans, but I love starting off the year in an intentional way! These short-term trips usually do more for the people going than for the people there.
Because of Haiti's third world conditions, I'll be going off line for the next 10 days.
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