2010 January

Archive for January, 2010

Mr. & Mrs. Gillespie Go to England

At the moment, we are on a layover in Washington DC and on our way to England. We have really been looking forward to this trip, although it has been a bit of a whirlwind getting here after John’s time in Haiti. We’ll arrive in London late tonight, 10:00 pm England time, and be reunited [...]

Home Again, Home Again

Johnny is home! Yep, I got to pick him up at our little Kona airport on Sunday. It’s so nice to have him home again. We grabbed a quick lunch together (at Taco Del Mar!) and then headed to our house for a nice, long nap. Well, he napped, and I cuddled up to him [...]

RHOP and Perspective

*Update* Please check out Jeremy Bardwell’s radical blog post on RHOP. We believe this to be the strategic key for changing the nation of Haiti!!!
Dear friends,
The following are a couple more videos of our dialogue in the bus. The first carries a solemn call to the Body of Christ to rise and and intercede for [...]

Haiti and the dialogue of Heaven

As we began our journey home from Haiti, Jeremy and I found ourselves beginning to discuss aloud what had been brewing in our hearts all week in Haiti. I can tell it will take a long time for me to fully realize all the lessons I learned and to process all that I saw, but [...]

Rice and Beans!!

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In the midst of the chaos, grief, and pain that we’ve seen here, there’s been so much hope – and a TON of fun! We were working in the office on our last afternoon there and Terry ran in and asked us to come help with…. a GIANT truckload of rice and beans! I think [...]

Aftershocks

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We awoke this morning to the earth shaking. It’s such a weird feeling – I never will forget it since I was in that big one we had in Kona a few years ago. The same low rumble that you can almost feel more than you can hear, followed by a thump, then another [...]

So, Johnny, what did you and Jeremy do today?

Well… all we did was formulate and initiate an entire plan to mobilize a refugee relocation and rehabilitation effort for up to 10000 refugees from Port-au-Prince to St. Marc, working with the local government, schools, a bunch of NGO’s, the UN, churches, and volunteers. It starts on Thursday.
Then we strategized how to organize a national [...]

RHOP – Refugee House of Prayer – C'mon!!!

Yesterday evening I went over to the basketball court here on the YWAM base to spend some time with the refugees shaded from the burning Haitian sun. YWAM Haiti has been asked by the local hospital to house some of their less-wounded refugee patients, because they’re quickly being over-run by refugees from Port-au-Prince. I went [...]

That video from the other night….

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This is the video from the DR just before we crossed over into Haiti. It’s rad. Check it out and pray!
(Feel free to re-post this blog anywhere and check out www.jeremybardwell.wordpress.com for Jeremy’s perspective on our trip!)

A Little More from Johnny

I just got an email update from Johnny!
He and Jeremy are off to sleep now, so please pray that they get good rest.
He let me know that today they drove through the part of Haiti most effected by the earthquake, Port-au-Prince.
He says, “DR is largely free of any earthquake damage, so everything had felt fine [...]