around the world with Jesus

Thoughts from Haiti, day 1

(With no internet access in Haiti, I’ve returned to share a number of blog posts over the next few days…)
I’ve been a few really sad places in the world, Auschwitz, slave ports along the West African coast, various slums and other deprived areas. I expected I’d have the same dark and depressed feelings here in [...]

From deep within, THANK YOU!

Thursday of this week, we’re having a gathering at the Convoy of Hope home office where I hope to convey thanks to friends and family for the prayers, encouragement, financial support, friendship and for being nice to us throughout this journey! With the same spirit, a quick thank you to from my recent trip to [...]

Heading to Haiti

This week we confirmed that our Summer ‘10 Convoy of Hope intern team will serve in Haiti. Humbled. Excited. I’ll go there next month to begin setting things up for our work there.
 
Before the earthquake, few places on earth struggled like Haiti. Lack of infrastructure, extreme poverty, mudpies for lunch, corruption, disease, lack of clean [...]

With some precious children in Haiti…we’ll return

I spent some time with some of Haiti’s precious children. Here we discuss potential opportunities for the interns to be a part of what Convoy of Hope is doing at this school.

Fear & no fear in Kathmandu

In addition to the Buddhist temples referenced yesterday, we visited one of the world’s most famous Hindu temples, Pashupatinath Temple, the most famous temple to lord Shiva.  Thousands of people from around the world pass through these 1500+ years old temple grounds on their pilgrimage to find enlightenment, peace, and answers to prayer. Holy men live [...]

10 things Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution can teach us about serving around the world

We watch Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution. We love this new show (2 episodes so far) where a famous chef from the U.K. comes to the most obese city in USA with hopes to transform the food culture of the people. He cares about their health and the health of the USA and hopes a revolution is starting there in Huntington, WV.

As [...]