Kirk Franklin & friends for Haiti
Very emotionally affecting song via YouTube (also below), cast as a message to the victims of the Haiti earthquake. To find out about progress in Haiti, go to CrossInternational.org/Haiti.
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Very emotionally affecting song via YouTube (also below), cast as a message to the victims of the Haiti earthquake. To find out about progress in Haiti, go to CrossInternational.org/Haiti.
Here is a powerful example (stream audio) of God’s Kingdom breaking out…this time in the midst of incredible suffering from the Haiti earthquake. Here’s the description from the Miami NPR station’s website: This piece reconstructs an inspiring moment amid tragedy...
Island Time is one of the best radio pieces to illustrate what is going on in Haiti and worth 60 minutes of your time (especially if you like good radio). Here’s the promo blurb: Unprecedented amounts of money have been...
By John Piper of Desiring God Do you consider safety, or your health, A sign from me? I am not awed by might, nor struck by wealth, Or poverty. O, I am struck! And crushed. Buried, I wince, And dying,...
The Chronicle of Philanthropy provides this short video (also below) on what is being done by several charities to ready Haiti for the annual rainy season this year. To see what Cross International has done in Haiti, go to: www.crossinternational.org/relief....
Below is video of Haiti relief supplies being unloaded and now being distributed to earthquake victims in Les Cayes. Because the southern seaside town has only a small harbor with a wharf that cannot accommodate large vessels, small boats were...
From the WSJ: Acts of homespun ingenuity characterize much of the Haiti fund raising. Jeff Winton, a seventh-generation North Harmony, N.Y., dairy farmer, says he sold four cows and two bull calves and donated the proceeds, $4,000, to the Coalition...
Michael W. Smith gets it. So do a lot of other Christian artists. Click above or here to view video. Lyrics: There is hurt there is trouble – there are tears on the ground from the ash and the rubble...
Good overview below and here by Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church/Seattle on the damage done by the Haitian earthquake. He and pastor James McDonald from Chicago spent 32 hours after the quake on-the-ground. This provides a good, broad historical...
Here’s a follow-up from an earlier post, illustrating that compassion and good intentions are not sufficient elements in helping the poor: PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – A group of 10 American Baptists were being held in the Haitian capital Sunday after trying...