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Seeya

We are getting ready to go back to the Bay (we have been in St. Louis for the weekend.) With groups and the lack of internet/electricity in the Bay we may not be able to get to emails as quickly as we would like. However, the internet should be up and running soon [...]

Some More Articles

Article #1: About American Funding to Haiti- Whether or not this articles is true, too many times foreign aid comes with many strings attached.
Article #2- A New Prime Minister Nominee- Haiti desperately needs to appoint a new PM.
Article #3- About the State of the World’s (including Haiti’s) Children.

A Great Idea

We spent some time in a place called Chansolme the past week. We went there with a group from Northside Christian Church in New Albany Indiana. While we were there they had the kids from the area paint pictures that they will then sell in the States to raise money to build a [...]

A Busy Few Weeks

Check out the pictures on the Filckr site, to see what we have been doing the past few weeks. We have spent some time in a new town for the mission and Curtis was the best man in a wedding. Click the picture link below on the left.

Another Prime Minister Got Rejected

We do not get to check the news as often as we would like to anymore, so this comes a little late. Read this article about Rene Preval’s second nomination for the PM position getting rejected and the devastating affect that not having a Prime Minister has on the country.

New Pictures

We put some new pictures up on the Flickr site so check out the link on the left.

Oh Well Hey Guys

Ok, so I (Curtis) am sitting in a Port Au Prince hotel lobby and the song “Sexual Healing” by Marvin Gaye is playing in the background, which is awesome. Anyways, I am in Port Au Prince with Jacques and Jose to pick up the group and as we drove around today I realized something. [...]

Our House

We came back to find our house had doors and windows! Some of the guys from the group also volunteered to make us a bed and some bedside tables to go in it. We will be working on getting everything together in the house for the next month or so but so far [...]

Another Food Article

Read this one from the BBC, it talks a lot about Haiti. We leave in a few hours so do not expect emails to be responded to very quickly.

Back To Haiti

It has been a busy month, but we are ready to head back to Haiti tomorrow. We have been all over the place, from Huntsville, Alabama to Rockford, Illinois, from St. Louis to Louisville, and all over the place in Lexington. We want to thank everyone who took the time to talk with [...]