Before my salvation, my brother Joe introduced me to his favorite late night TV show Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. The comedic episode featured a healing evangelist before an audience stocked with paid actors who shouted their healings as the front man fleeced naïve attendees. At first, I thought the show sacrilegious; after all Catholics of…

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After service, we returned to our concrete house protected from thieves by the red grillwork patterning the ocean view in hearts.Clammy with sweat, I stepped through the shower’s plank door and pulled the plastic curtain shut. In the unlit shower, a milky colored tree frog hung from the wall. His suction cup toes spread wide…

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An excerpt from an unpublished memoir about our first ten years in Haiti Walking with the God of Miracles. A true miracle that included lots of laughter! I panicked. “My God, what are we going to do? We do not have enough money for gasoline to get to Richmond!” Suddenly a credit card seemed smart…

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STARVATION LOOMS TEMPLATE TO EMAIL YOUR US SENATORS & CONGRESS Please copy and paste this template into the contact form on your two US Senators and one Congressional representatives web page. Fill in your name and the representatives name. Senator/The Honorable [Full name] United States Senate/U.S. House of Representatives (Look up on-line or call your…

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Saturday August 14 at 8:29AM a 7.2 quake collapsed concrete structures and buried Haitians under broken buildings and walls. Death toll has exceeded 1300 and will continue to rise as young men dig out family and neighbors with their bare hands. 5000 are reported injured at this writing and medical care is limited.Violent Opposition militias…

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1987 Constitution Article 149 is clear, current PM Claude Joseph and his Cabinet of Ministers presides until a president is elected. The only way to b/c president is by election. Interim Privert gave away 4.8 billion in gov contracts and Jovenel spent a year rescinding them. Ariel Henry was never ratified and he has NO…

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A happier time w his friend who loved him and he loved. We were all so naive; we thought doing right was all it took to change Haiti. Jovenel called Joel once and said, “Pasteur, moun sa yo mechante!” He’d never experienced the wickedness of PaP until he came from Trou du Nord for the…

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President Jovenel loved agriculture; we filmed his solar run irrigation pumps for “jardins” all over Haiti. His banana farm in Trou du Nord is where we first met Jovenel in 2015; he was driving a tractor and told Frere Joel, “Everything you see here is going to be banana trees.” Frere Joel says, “I thought…

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