Posts by Denny Bain

                    (Written by Lynn) Every other Saturday the widows are invited to the Church for food distribution.  Pastor Francois instigated the program because, as he likes to remind us, the Bible says, “Pure religion and undefiled is this, to care for the fatherless and widows in…

                    (Ecuze’ this posting is tardy, but “We are in Haiti, Yes?”) Pastor Francois woke us at 3am this morning because when Haitians do an Easter Sunrise service, they do the service first, then greet the sunrise!  I discovered a HUGE advantage to 3am in Haiti…

                    Haiti is horn happy. There’s a honk for everything. One honk if you want to pass by. One honk to warn others you are coming around a corner. There is another honk to see if anyone is coming around the corner. A series of 3…

              I have so many experiences I want to share with you…and I’ve started on writing a dozen of them. But something happened today that I need to tell you about. Sista Este’ (Esther) and I were out under the trees, showing the kids how to braid bracelets and I…

                      DAY 5 Good Friday I’ve told you about the background of praise we’ve been going to sleep to each night. Pastor invited us to join them tonight for service. The church is white-washed stone like everything else in the Philadelphia compound. Simple wooden benches,…

                          Day 5-written by Esther Life in Haiti is hard.   Everything takes immense effort.  I’m not complaining rather want to portray how much of the world lives in comparison to American’s abundance.  Life in Haiti is vastly different than life in America.  The…

                  DAY 1 Hello All -Esther and I arrived safely yesterday afternoon. Flying to Port au Prince was uneventful (except for zero sleep Sunday nite)…trying to get though customs and out the front door of the airport was an adventure. We had been pre-warned to not let…

                          DAY 3 Wednesday – I have started to write at the end of each day but I am having Internet problems, battery problems, and more importantly writer’s overload – the opposite of writer’s block. I have written pages and pages. There is…