By Bill Dedman, msnbc.com
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Shouts split the darkness early Friday as members of the Lifechurch in Allentown, Pa., arrived at the orphanage they run here to find everyone safe – 11 children and four staff members sleeping in the garden. The hugging, conversation and serious business of inspecting damage continued until just [...]
16 Jan, 2010
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By Bill Dedman, msnbc.com
ON THE ROAD TO PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – What would Jesus do? Well, in these circumstances, he’d probably pull strings at three embassies, stock up on machetes, put yellow police lights on his vehicles and find a quiet place to cross the border into Haiti.
At least that’s how Randy Landis interpreted his [...]
16 Jan, 2010
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Alex Johnson, msnbc.com
Ramon Crespo was rushing around Wednesday afternoon trying to pull things together before he and colleagues at Lifechurch in Allentown, Pa., where he is the pastor, were to try to make their way — somehow — to the church’s orphanage in Haiti.
“We lost [contact with] our building,” Crespo said after a magnitude-7 earthquake [...]
