Let’s face it: sometimes being a Christian is difficult! This truth can be compounded depending on where you live as well. For us it certainly has had its’ moments, especially this year, but from a purely personal and cultural point-of-view. I am amazed to think about all the Christians who spread the love and message of Christ in countries that are much more hostile to the gospel than Haitians. We may have some annoyances here and there with our First World desires in the Third World, but we certainly aren’t threatened for our faith, nor is there any sort of active rebellion happening putting our lives in jeopardy.

ell we just got back to Haiti from visiting the US about two week ago, because my (Kyle) brother got married. Even though our trip was extremely exhausting for the entire Jones family, we had a really great time spending time with our family and friends and watching my brother and his new wife experience a wonderful moment in both of their lives. Things are starting to look up for us here in Haiti, or [...]

More and more weeks seem to go by and I am still sick. I am pretty sure that I caught the flu from someone that came into visit a couple of weeks ago. It is truly bizarre, because I started out with a fever and vomiting, and now I have symptoms that resemble a sinus infection and yet still have a fever. My hope is that I am all better by a week and a [...]

Well, it has been a little over a week since I posted last, and so it is definitely time for me to give a Jones Family update. As the saying says,”When it rains it pours.” It has been raining on us a lot recently. This is both true in the literal and figurative sense, but when I use this phrase now, I use it in the figurative sense. Our previous email “a tough year,” is [...]

After all that we have been through recently, it was definitely relieving to hear some good news. Yesterday, we got up early and boarded a plane down to Port-au-Prince to have a Neurologist check out Micah and make sure that everything was OK. There were a couple of different possibilities of what happened to Micah on Saturday night, but only one good one – it was a fluke. In order to find this out, though, [...]

Well I know no other way of saying it except just saying it: it has been a very tough year for the Jones family! This year so far has been wrought with all sorts of drama, especially medical drama, and yet it has just begun 18 days ago. If you want to know the absolute truth, though, it has been a tough six months or so for us. My surgery in August, Lorraine’s long struggle [...]

Well we just returned to Haiti after a brief Christmas vacation in the United States. We had tons of things that we were planning on doing: updating the blog; finishing our December newsletter; visiting friends and families in VA and NC; going to one of Lorraine’s closest friends weddings; and mostly just relaxing, but it was not to come to pass. After we got to Virginia, we were able to relax a little bit and [...]