Hi again folks,
I am just back from Haiti having spent a week there planning various mission projects including a team which I will lead from the Methodist Church in Ireland travelling for two and a half weeks after Christmas. Twenty years ago I lived and worked in Haiti for a period and was pleased that the language came back to me reasonably well! It was good to be there again but of course very distressing to see the amount of devastation since the earthquake. However it was also hugely impressive to see the way that the Haitian people, who have always had great guts, have begun to rise up again and get on with their lives as best they can. Most Haitians just survive as best they can with no real job. Like every other organization the Methodist Church in Haiti has been badly rocked by the earthquake but again there is a determined effort to re-build and resurrect all aspects of the work of the Church. The Methodist Church runs over a hundred primary schools in Haiti as well as health clinics, teacher
training college, printing press, etc. etc. I was reminded again of a statement of a Haitian Methodist minister some decades ago which still rings true – “We are more determined than ever that those who are no people might truly become the people of God.” (See 1 Peter 2:9).
Back home again our next meeting in Millstreet is on Sunday 12th September at 7.00 p. m. in the Canon O’Donovan Centre on Clara Road in Millstreet. As ever further information can be had from <email> or telephone 064 6631613.
