tvanderwell Don't Forget Haiti, Quisqueya Christian School, The Poor Corruption, Election, Haiti 0 Comment
Sit a Spell Haiti:::Delma 75:::11 a.m. – 12 p.m. I once sat in on a film writing workshop. I’m not a film writer. I was an English major at Texas A&M. All my classes were in one building. I seemed to live among those freezing cold halls. I saw the sign that announced the [...]
tvanderwell Don't Forget Haiti, Quisqueya Christian School, The Poor Corruption, Election, Haiti 0 Comment
Sit a Spell Wednesday, December 08, 2010 Haiti:::Delma 75:::8-10 a.m. When people are in the street setting things on fire, it’s a relief to see the police arrive on the scene. My sense of American justice came rising up in my chest. “Oh good. They are here. They can stop this tomfoolery.” We watched [...]
tvanderwell Don't Forget Haiti, Quisqueya Christian School, The Poor Corruption, Election, Haiti, Protests 0 Comment
Heather has wrote a moving series of posts today about the view from their window. They have had (and still have) a seat right across the wall from some of the protests. Read, marvel, pray and give the Haitians credit for standing up against corruption. Sit a Spell Haiti:::Delma 75:::7-8 a.m. While people back [...]
tvanderwell Don't Forget Haiti, The Poor Foreign Aid, Haiti, Paul Farmer 1 Comment
Paul wrote the following op-ed piece about Haiti and what to do… FEATUREPRINT | TEXT SIZE | EMAIL | SINGLE PAGE 5 Lessons From Haiti’s Disaster What the earthquake taught us about foreign aid. BY PAUL FARMER | DECEMBER 2010 1. Jobs are everything. All humans need money — they need it to buy food and [...]
tvanderwell Don't Forget Haiti, The Poor Franklin Graham, Haiti, Thanksgiving 0 Comment
Tom here – Franklin Graham wrote a thought provoking and disturbing editorial in the Washington Post last Thursday for Thanksgiving. I’d ask you to do three things: 1) Read what he wrote. 2) Pray for the people of Haiti and 3) Out of your thankfulness for all God has given you, ask what you can [...]
tvanderwell Don't Forget Haiti, The Poor Bill Frist, Cholera, Haiti, NGO 1 Comment
I found this article on Sen. Frist’s website. I’ve never met him, but I have memories of some people I know who said he was down in Haiti working side by side with other medical personnel trying to save earthquake victims. As a Senator who’s also a Doctor, he’s in a unique position. Any way, [...]
tvanderwell Don't Forget Haiti, The Poor Cholera, Haiti, Samaritans Purse 0 Comment
November 14, 2010 TREATMENT CENTER OVERCROWDED: 257 CHOLERA PATIENTS, ONLY 125 BEDS Samaritan’s Purse doctors and nurses working to save lives as cholera spreads in Haiti’s capital city Cholera is spreading at an alarming rate among earthquake survivors in Haiti. The death toll has reached 917, including 27 in the capital city of Port-au-Prince, where [...]
tvanderwell Don't Forget Haiti, The Poor Haiti, Short Term Missions, When Helping Hurts 0 Comment
Haiti has a way of doing that – it changes your thinking about a lot of things. Aaron and Heather wrote a very compelling article that presents a different view of mission trips. I haven’t read the book yet, but it’s on my Christmas List! Read it, take a few extra minutes and ask yourself [...]
tvanderwell Don't Forget Haiti Cholera, Haiti, The Poor 0 Comment
The Faces of Cholera Today was a full day in the fight against cholera. The reality is hitting us…. this is big. As the numbers climb in the reports and more statements come out over the concern of how this thing could really mushroom, i cant help but think what an even bigger tragedy it [...]
tvanderwell Don't Forget Haiti, The Poor Better is One Day, Haiti, Heather Hendrick 0 Comment
Better is One Day Church in Haiti is always emotional. It’s hard to pinpoint why. All I know is there are many days when I leave the building with a headache from constantly blinking back the tears. There are some days when I am so overwhelmed by emotion I want to run out of the [...]