An afternoon in Peris

We weren’t even supposed to be there. If I still weren’t struggling with communication problems, I’d have heard the slight difference between “Peris” and “Carries” when our ministry team was making plans for the week, and instead of telling our guests — 16 young adults from Adventures in Missions’ World Race — that we were going to help with a house build, I’d have told them we were dropping into a community we’d never visited before to gauge their interest in the Gospel’s message of love and hope. At the very least, I’d have left my gloves back at home. … Continue reading An afternoon in Peris

I must decrease

Communication turns out to have been the first tool that God has used to break me in Haiti. For some reason, it never occurred to me – a guy who spent most of the past 32 years as a journalist – that it would be so hard here to do the thing that I have done so easily for so long. Whether in print or face to face, I rarely struggle for what to say or how to say it. And then I got to Haiti. Where they speak Kréyol. And I do not. It probably says something about me … Continue reading I must decrease