Rood Awakening (Part Two)

Here's the second video about Rood. Can you imagine seeing your family crushed under this building?

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Rood Awakening (Part One)

Here's a video from Haiti about a remarkable young boy, Rood, who was orphaned by the January earthquake. You'll be absolutely shocked and amazed by his story.

Come back for part two later tomorrow!


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Inside the Tents (Haiti Video Blog – 9)

Would you like to live here as the rains and winds and sewage come? . . .

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Intensities in Tent Cities (Haiti Video Blog – 8)

Please remember them during this rainy season . . .

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Love Your Neighbor (Haiti Video Blog – 7)

A pretty enduring image, to say the least. A church stood tall while the house next to it collapsed during the January 12th earthquake in Haiti. During our visit, this particular church was serving as a makeshift school and was filled with children as we entered. As one of our team interviewed the pastor, I made my way into the alley between the church and house. Like many of the crushed homes in Port-au-Prince, I was able to peer into the layers of everyday life – beds, pots and pans, board games, and a TV – all compacted down into ribbons of debris.

Two of the children who used to call it home were now in the church, occupying seats before a dilapidated blackboard. When they lost everything, the church was there for them, to answer the call to literally "Love your neighbor."

They are your neighbors. YOU can be there for them also.

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Living on the Streets (Haiti Video Blog – 6)

The Haitian church here serves as a gathering place for hundreds of children, as well as a good number of adults, who continue to seek food, water, shelter, and hope while living on the streets.

YOU and your church can make a difference. Partner with Haitian churches like this to help the children that gather daily on their grounds.


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Stand with Them (Haiti Video Blog – 5)

These two cuties are double orphans, clinging to life on the streets of Port-au-Prince with surviving relatives who are struggling to keep them. I met them at one of our partner churches – a church that was packed with 400 homeless children. When you stand beside a church like this, you stand by extended families who are desperately trying to care for children such as these.


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