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<\/p>\nHaving been to Haiti, I have changed completely. \u00a0I don’t use phrases such as “I’m starving” or “I’m dying of thirst”. \u00a0Having been to Haiti, I know that there are people who really are starving and in need of water. \u00a0Several family members live together in tiny homes, often made of mud, sheets of tin, or just scraps of many different materials. \u00a0I saw children wearing only t-shirts. \u00a0It was hard to see so much poverty. \u00a0Before going to Haiti, I thought poverty was not having enough money and things you need or want. \u00a0I saw that it can go much deeper.\u00a0 This is my new understanding of the poverty in Haiti.<\/p>\n
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I used to think poverty was this.<\/strong><\/p>\n After visiting Haiti, I know that poverty looks more like this.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n At the same time,\u00a0I was surprised by the level of joy and excitment the Haitians had, especially the kids when we helped another missionary group with VBS. \u00a0You would have thought their favorite pop artist had come to their village! \u00a0I had the best time playing with the kids of Chambrun and Onaville. \u00a0We played basketball and soccer on Sunday afternoon. \u00a0I was amazed to watch many of them play sports on rough ground with no shoes. \u00a0The Haitian kids asked me three questions very often, “What’s your name, how old are you, and what are those things on your teeth?” (Braces!) \u00a0If they didn’t speak English, they’d just gesture at my teeth and sometimes made a disgusted face!<\/p>\n I also loved going to church in Chambrun and Onaville. \u00a0There was just a feeling in the air that Christ was loved and the people wanted more of Him. \u00a0The whole trip was worth my time and I hope you feel the same way if you think God has called you to go.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Some of the precious Onaville children with our youngest team member.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Having been to Haiti, I have changed completely. \u00a0I don’t use phrases such as “I’m starving” or “I’m dying of thirst”. \u00a0Having been to Haiti, I know that there are people who really are starving and in need of water. \u00a0Several family members live together in tiny homes, often made of mud, sheets of tin, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"blog-category":[75,74,77],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezravisionministries.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog_post\/1711"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezravisionministries.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog_post"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezravisionministries.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/blog_post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezravisionministries.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezravisionministries.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezravisionministries.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezravisionministries.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezravisionministries.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"blog-category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezravisionministries.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog-category?post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"brokenheart\"](\"http:\/\/ezravisionministries.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/brokenheart.jpg\")
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