I also don’t deny that Haiti is in terrible shape.
But I do take issue with an earlier poster saying NOTHING GOOD has ever come out of Haiti. Kind of broad isn’t it? There are good people in Haiti.
As I said in my earlier post, I did mission work there and I met some amazing people in churches there. People who lived on a cup of rice a day were offering us their food. The love these Christians showed to others was tangible and unmatched by anything I have seen since. Perhaps because it has to be, because on the opposite extreme, right outside their doors, the voodooists were as active and evil as you could imagine.
One of my husband’s managers is a son of Haitian immigrants (yes, LEGAL). His dad is currently in Haiti. He just called hubby and asked for prayers.
The people in Haiti have lived under a corrupt and self serving dictatorship for generations. I guess I don’t understand why that would make them worthy of being “flushed down the toilet”? God in Heaven have mercy on us all.
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I have a sister-in-law that works for a Haitian charity (here, not in Haiti.) She has one of the bedrooms in her house done in a really cool Haitian art theme.
I was merely noting that the factual claims in the post were largely true, not agreeing with the conclusions drawn. I certainly don’t think Haiti is irrelevant or deserves the many disasters inflicted on it, whether natural or man-made.
The hurricanes and earthquakes are merely geography; it’s a bad location for that.
Where did you do mission work? Agree about the voodoo. The north side of the island was beautiful and most of the people there very nice. Port Au Prince, wow.
Amen. A high school girl from our church, who intends to be a missionary full time, went to Haiti on a short term trip a couple years ago and it changed her life. She came back overwhelmed by the difference in life there vs here and the pictures she showed were just incredible and heartbreaking. But the people were lovely and giving, despite their utter poverty.
Another friend is in the process of adopting a young Haitian orphan, has been going through that process for going on 2 years now. His orphanage is just outside Port-au-Prince and who knows how he is right now, and I’m sure my friend is distraught with worry.
These are precious human beings, and many of them died today because they happened to live in one of the poorest nations on earth.