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Security Beyond Walls

As political tensions here rise, I have been asked a few times whether I live in a compound in Haiti.
By Shelly Satran

Emptied for Love

The following reflection is a revised entry from Kent Annan’s online journal.
by Kent Annan

God’s Crazy Ideas

What would lead a young, well-educated North American couple to exchange the comforts and opportunities of middle-class life in the United States for a single room with no plumbing or electricity in a Haitian village? Are they crazy? Find out.
by Kent Annan

News and Program Updates

Vista Hermosa grants us $180,000 over three years for an extensive training and exchange program with 35 leaders…read more

Vista Hermosa grants us an additional $345 over three years for “Social Enterprise for Advancing Quality Education project…read more

Christmas Turkey on a Summer Morning

He’d threatened to do it during each of my last few visits to see them when I was in Haiti.
by Kent Annan

Joy Springs Up

Joy springs up in unexpected places.
by John Engle

Learning to Give… and Receive

Kent Annan and Berlin August, one of the children of his host family, share the work of washing clothes together.
by Kent Annan

Right Heart, Wrong Technique

The recent scene started harmlessly enough.
by Kent Annan

The People Brought Children to Jesus…

They brought children to Jesus hoping he might touch them.
by Kent Annan

Everything Would Change

The adults were streaming to Jesus. Little children, too.
by Kent Annan

Who Holds the Microphone?

Several months ago someone broke into the church near where I live when I’m in Haiti and stole the sound system—a speaker and a microphone.
by John Engle

Leading Side-by-Side

Several Beyond Borders and Limye Lavi staff and board members meet around the round table at the Limye Lavi office in Haiti.
by Shelly Satran

The Hope of Faith

Sunday worship at our local church is scheduled to start at 10:00 a.m., yet we never know when the service will actually begin.
By Shelly Satran

Adapting to Reality

“I’m hopeful because my work is bearing fruit,” said Samson, a Beyond Borders and Limyè Lavi colleague, when I asked how things were going for him.
By John Engle

Sharing God’s Living Words

Ten young men and women, all in their twenties and thirties, arrive on foot or by bike and sit in a circle of chairs arranged on the dirt floor of a pink elementary school building in Dabòn, a town a couple of hours outside Port-au-Prince.
By Kent Annan