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It is 4am here in Sendai, Japan. I am here with Churches Helping Churches and I type this blog post in a room full of sleeping volunteers with CRASH Japan. In a few short hours, all will awake and be off bringing much needed supplies to the people throughout the region ravished by the earthquake…
I woke up like any other morning last Friday, March 11th. Except when I checked my mail on my iphone…I had bunch of interesting messages. “Just heard from my wife’s brother that her family is safe in Tokyo. Hope the same is true for your family over there.” “Hope you’re family and friends are safe…
January 12, 2010…at 4:53pm…a 7.0 earthquake shook Haiti to it’s core. Other cities have endured similar earthquakes, but over 300k lost their lives in Port Au Prince. What followed was nothing short of extraordinary. The international community came together to support Haiti in their hour of need. Food, tents, clothing and medical supplies were rushed…
As I mentioned in my previous post, I spent 48 hours in Haiti last week with a new NGO called Churches Helping Churches. Now that two months of relief work has passed, many agencies are beginning to pull out of Haiti. Churches Helping Churches is just beginning to move in. There are many agencies working…
It was a typical end of winter-can’t-wait-until-spring Friday night…dinner and then out to redbox when I received a phone call from an old college friend a couple weeks ago. After a bit of small talk, my heart almost stopped beating when he said, “Kenny, I have an intense question to ask you…Can you be in…
