http://www.worldorphansweekly.com/news en-US Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:00:10 -0700 http://www.worldorphansweekly.com/news#20100310 http://abandoned-orphaned.typepad.com/paulmyhill/2010/03/two-young-girls-making-a-difference-for-haitis-orphans.html Jonathan and Heather Aldis are dear friends from the days when Lisa and I were on staff at Bent Tree Bible Fellowship. Since then, they have been regular supporters of the work I've done with Orphan Lifeline and World Orphans.... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:32:35 -0700 http://www.worldorphansweekly.com/news#20100309 http://abandoned-orphaned.typepad.com/paulmyhill/2010/03/bon-jovi-should-i-be-jealous.html "All I could get were tickets on the floor. I hope you don't mind standing behind people." That's what I told my wife as I took her to the Bon Jovi concert in Denver last night . . . right... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:28:34 -0700 http://www.worldorphansweekly.com/news#20100309 http://abandoned-orphaned.typepad.com/paulmyhill/2010/03/scotts-haiti-photos.html Yes, I will eventually get around to posting some of my pictures from Haiti here on my blog. Things have been quite hectic since I've been back, but I hope to do it soon. In the meantime, please take a... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:25:12 -0700 http://www.worldorphansweekly.com/news#20100307 http://abandoned-orphaned.typepad.com/paulmyhill/2010/03/irving-bible-church-on-hort.html Dieula Previlon is the International Initiatives Pastor at Irving Bible Church (IBC) in Irving, Texas. Many moons ago I served as the Director of Missions at Bent Tree Bible Fellowship (BTBF) in nearby Carrollton. Both are mega-churches that have had... Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:23:29 -0700 http://www.worldorphansweekly.com/news#20100307 http://abandoned-orphaned.typepad.com/paulmyhill/2010/03/orphans-first-on-hort-assist-news-service.html I'm a world-traveling Brit who lived in Sweden for a spell, moved to the US thirty years ago, and eventually married an American bride. I'm fluent in the "Queen's English" as well as the American corruption. In my book, that... Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:42:07 -0700 http://www.worldorphansweekly.com/news#20100306 http://abandoned-orphaned.typepad.com/paulmyhill/2010/03/at-every-turn-of-the-blade-haiti-reflection.html It's hard to get Haiti out of my mind. I spent many an evening there, sitting on the hard concrete roof, staring directly into the whirling blades of a Super Stallion or Sea Dragon helicopter, hoping that gusts of wind... Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:50:33 -0700 http://www.worldorphansweekly.com/news#20100305 http://abandoned-orphaned.typepad.com/paulmyhill/2010/03/school-of-rubble-haiti-video-blog-1.html While the initial Haiti Orphan Relief Team (HORT) assessment group was in Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas recently, the World Orphans members of the team shot daily video blogs. Unfortunately our Internet connection in Haiti was less-than-desirable and we were unable... Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:24:19 -0700 http://www.worldorphansweekly.com/news#20100303 http://abandoned-orphaned.typepad.com/paulmyhill/2010/03/more-christian-alliance-for-orphans-blog-entries-on-hort-haiti.html Thanks to Jedd and the Christian Alliance for Orphans (CAFO) on the following two posts on the CAFO blog regarding the Haiti Orphan Relief Team (HORT): How to Share What They're Seeing on the Ground in Haiti February 22, 2010... Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:25:36 -0700 http://www.worldorphansweekly.com/news#20100301 http://abandoned-orphaned.typepad.com/paulmyhill/2010/03/to-soar-like-eagles-haiti-reflection.html While waiting at the new Haiti office of World Relief (the former one collapsed in the quake), the initial HORT assessment team watched a few children from the adjacent King's orphanage play basketball with a tennis ball. When their hero... Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:09:29 -0700 http://www.worldorphansweekly.com/news#20100227 http://abandoned-orphaned.typepad.com/paulmyhill/2010/02/rape-of-the-innocents-haiti-update.html "I need to tell you something," the teary-eyed girl said to Campus Crusade's country director for Haiti, Esperandieu Pierre, during his recent visit to one of the tented camps near a hospital in Port-au-Prince. The nine year-old orphan had been... Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:17:46 -0700 http://www.worldorphansweekly.com/news#20100226 http://abandoned-orphaned.typepad.com/paulmyhill/2010/02/of-sacrifice-and-suffering-haiti-update.html I'm humbled by the many amazing Haitian pastors the initial HORT assessment team has met over the past couple of weeks. To be able to survey over fifty churches, we split into three groups that crisscrossed all over Port-au-Prince and... Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:02:09 -0700 http://www.worldorphansweekly.com/news#20100225 http://abandoned-orphaned.typepad.com/paulmyhill/2010/02/every-child-deserves-their-home-haiti-update.html There is little doubt that the Idaho group lacked good judgment and made some terrible mistakes when they tried to take Haitian kids across the border into the Dominican Republic. The latest reports about these children state that "all had... Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:33:31 -0700 http://www.worldorphansweekly.com/news#20100224 http://abandoned-orphaned.typepad.com/paulmyhill/2010/02/the-chaos-and-the-calm-haiti-update.html After surveying many churches associated with the work of World Relief yesterday, we decided to cap off the day with another visit to downtown Port-au-Prince. We pulled over at Rue Dessalines, a central artery that cuts through the littered shambles... Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:26:37 -0700 http://www.worldorphansweekly.com/news#20100223 http://abandoned-orphaned.typepad.com/paulmyhill/2010/02/to-the-center-a-second-aftershock-in-haiti.html Because of the aftershock at 4:26 am yesterday morning, the whole team decided to create our own version of a tent city atop the heavy concrete roof last night. The rain clouds hovered with the helicopters early in the evening... Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:39:57 -0700 http://www.worldorphansweekly.com/news#20100222 http://abandoned-orphaned.typepad.com/paulmyhill/2010/02/aftershock-haiti-update.html I was awoken early this morning by the whole house shaking and a deep low rumble that sounded as if the underworld was growling. Three seconds later, after an initial period of disorientation, I heard a scream that sent the... Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:25:01 -0700 http://www.worldorphansweekly.com/news#20100221 http://abandoned-orphaned.typepad.com/paulmyhill/2010/02/inside-the-rubble-and-outside-the-doors-haiti-update.html Today we met with Pastor Fritz in Carrefour, the approximate epicenter of the Jan 12th quake in Haiti. Fritz is the one who took in Rood, the boy who lost eleven members of his family - and his arm -... Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:39:24 -0700 http://www.worldorphansweekly.com/news#20100220 http://abandoned-orphaned.typepad.com/paulmyhill/2010/02/start-your-own-campaign-for-haiti-its-easy-1.html You've seen the news. You've received the appeals. Perhaps you're asking yourself, "What difference can I make?" Well, the truth is that YOU can make a huge difference, and here's how . . . The Haiti Orphan Relief Team (HORT)... Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:13:15 -0700 http://www.worldorphansweekly.com/news#20100220 http://abandoned-orphaned.typepad.com/paulmyhill/2010/02/the-weight-upon-them-haiti-update.html Imagine that you live in a two storey house where the second floor and ceiling/roof are eight-inch thick slabs of concrete, threaded with rebar. Imagine that the walls are bulky concrete blocks set between twelve-inch square concrete pillars. Basically, you... Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:00:17 -0700 http://www.worldorphansweekly.com/news#20100219 http://abandoned-orphaned.typepad.com/paulmyhill/2010/02/the-winds-blew-and-the-ground-shook-haiti-update.html After the first couple of days in Haiti, I started to get discouraged that the story has, for the most part, fallen off of the US media radar screen and the collective consciousness of America, replaced by Apolo Ohno's soul... Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:23:47 -0700 http://www.worldorphansweekly.com/news#20100219 http://abandoned-orphaned.typepad.com/paulmyhill/2010/02/broken-haiti-update.html Things don't have to be shattered to be deeply broken. During the night (Wednesday night), the rains came. The pastor's house we're staying in started to leak at multiple points, including waterfalls gushing into a bedroom and stairwell. From a... Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:07:35 -0700