Our Farewell Dinner The night before we departed on this greatly anticipated trip, I invited the group traveling to Haiti to my home for dinner. Included were Don Moen, the well-known Christian music composer and performer whose inspirational songs have graced our prayer-room at Food For The Poor (FFP) for many years, his son Michael […]
Month: November 2021
Honduras Inaugurations
On Monday, Oct. 4th, 2010, I landed in Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, (one of the scariest airports for landings and take-offs in the world). There is a very large mountain that appears to be right at the end of the runway – no matter whether you are taking off or landing! This was to […]
Honduras: The agony and the ecstasy
I recently returned from another inspirational trip to Honduras. It is always good to visit with Linda Coello, her blood relatives and her extended family that comprise the organization of which she is president – CEPUDO. They are the people who do a great job of distributing the goods that we send for that country […]
Standing In the Shadow of the Cross
At a moment in the prayer service this morning, trying to avoid the sun in my eyes by standing in the shadow of the cross on the front of our building, I suddenly felt the urge to write this prayer, which I completed in within the time of a song that was being played there. […]
A thank you to Food For The Poor donors
“I call heaven and earth as a witness this day, that I have set before you life and death…Therefore choose life…” (Deuteronomy 30:19a) In many of our countries children die on a daily basis, not because of horrible, debilitating illnesses, but simply for lack of food. In Haiti, it used to be that one out […]
Thirty years of hope
I wrote this poem for our 30th Anniversary celebration at FFP Florida, but it includes the efforts of all. Thirty Years of Hope Thirty years… Thirty years… Thirty years… Voices crying out in the wilderness, An army of ancient knights Trading horses for metal birds Church, to church, to church. Battling ignorance with awareness, Molding […]
Guatemala Journal – The Silence and the Pain (Part I)
Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. I traveled to Guatemala on a Saturday with our national senior account executive from Salem Radio, five of my colleagues from Food For The Poor (FFP) and the 13 coolest Christian radio hosts (some also pastors) that one could ever imagine, coming from as close by as the west coast of Florida and […]
Guatemala Journal – The Silence and the Pain (Part II)
I traveled to Guatemala on a Saturday with our national senior account executive from Salem Radio, five of my colleagues from Food For The Poor (FFP) and the 13 coolest Christian radio hosts (some also pastors) that one could ever imagine, coming from as close by as the west coast of Florida and as far […]
Guatemala Journal – The Silence and the Pain (Part III)
I traveled to Guatemala on a Saturday with our national senior account executive from Salem Radio, five of my colleagues from Food For The Poor (FFP) and the 13 coolest Christian radio hosts (some also pastors) that one could ever imagine, coming from as close by as the west coast of Florida and as far […]
Guatemala Journal – The Silence and the Pain (Part IV)
I traveled to Guatemala on a Saturday with our national senior account executive from Salem Radio, five of my colleagues from Food For The Poor (FFP) and the 13 coolest Christian radio hosts (some also pastors) that one could ever imagine, coming from as close by as the west coast of Florida and as far […]