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The Janou Restoration has Begun!

The last week of June, a 4 person team from our home church, Monett Community (MCC), flew to Haiti with a specific purpose in mind: to reroof the first house needing it in the remote mountain village of Janou and to do a survey of the village to ascertain each …

“Behind Enemy Lines”

Bill recently wrote a letter to a friend about the spiritual battle in Haiti and some of what JUST MERCY  has been doing. In it he said, “In a book called Peace Like A River, a father in a pitched battle with the enemy turns to his children and says, “We and …

In the Eye of the Storm….

  Kirk: When we first started thinking about this trip, Shaun kept telling us, this is going to be a really different mission trip! And it was! When we took off across Port au Prince on that bus, I thought, “What have I gotten us into?” But by the time …

“The Light Clashes with the Darkness…”

Reality, when we emerge from the comfortable insulation of our “privileged” lives, slaps us in the face like a gauntlet. The Light clashes with the Darkness; there can be no truce between them. Christianity clashes with Voodoo, gratitude with jealousy, compassion with indifference, forgiveness with revenge. Haiti is a land …