Articles for tag: Grand Goave

November 9, 2017

Christian Standard

Unnoticed Hero

By Jessi Holland  With a daughter off at college and a son in the Navy, a mother with an empty nest started on an unexpected journey. Ruth Anne Shattuck offered to teach eighth-grade boys with her husband, Dan, at Chapel Rock Christian Church in Indianapolis. Soon after, they were asked to serve as sponsors on the church”s first youth mission trip to Portugal. The year was 1989.  “I was so ready to do this,” Ruth Anne said. “I”d been on a plane. I felt so prepared. I felt like the Lord wanted me to go on this particular trip.”Â Â  But

May 23, 2010

Christian Standard

The Night the Rocks Cried Out

By Tracie Stanley On January 7, I traveled to Grand Goâve, Haiti, for a 10-day mission trip with Lifeline Christian Mission. The trip”s objective was to serve through hosting a day for the ladies from Lifeline”s churches, distributing Christmas gifts to children sponsored by the ministry, working in the infant nutrition program, and distributing shoes to Haitian children. By midweek we learned the Lord had a different objective in mind for this trip. My first glimpses of Haitian life were as we flew into Port-au-Prince””houses made of cement block and scraps of metal were stacked on each other and against

May 23, 2010

Christian Standard

After the Earthquake in Haiti

By Reggie Hundley By now all of us know the facts of the story. On January 12, 2010, a destructive earthquake rocked the nation of Haiti. The magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurred 16 miles west of the capital city of Port-au-Prince, and at a depth of approximately eight miles. The United States Geological Survey reported at least 33 aftershocks in the hours following the event. But these details do little to describe the trauma suffered by the people of Haiti. According to the International Red Cross, an estimated 3 million people were affected by the earthquake and aftershocks. Ninety percent of

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