A Blog About Life and Ministry in the "Pearl of the Antilles"

Zachary and Sharon Segaar-King, along with their children, Hannah, Vivian, Isaiah, and Esther, who are serving with Resonate Global Mission







Wednesday, June 23, 2010




One of the best things about life in Haiti is the constant barrage of the unexpected and inexplicable. If nothing else, it keeps life from being boring. This morning on the way to do a Timothy Training event in Leogane at CRWRC's project headquarters, the front end of the car fell into a hole in the middle of the road. A burly gang of young men just happened to loitering nearby and available to lift out the front-end of our full-size SUV out of the hole for (of course) a small fee. I wonder how the steel grating covering the sewer drain disappeared? A few months ago, a CRWRC photographer, John Deckinga (who was staying at our house in Port-au-Prince), captured a shot of a new advertisement in Leogane (the epi-center of the January 12 quake). It reads in French: "Grand Opening: Paradise Morgue Enterprise. Sincerest Regrets for Victims of January 12." Whoever it was that came up with the proverb, "One man's feast is another man's famine," must have consulted with the proprietor of this upstanding mortuary enterprise. Finally, it is very common among Haitians to find a distrust and dislike of the military arm of the United Nations here in Haiti called by its French acronynm, MUNISTAH. Two of the largest military contingents in MUNISTAH come from Brazil and Argentina. Zach got a picture of the festive World Cup display hung across Autoroute de Delmas, one of the busiest roads in all of Port-au-Prince. Guess what World Cup teams the display celebrated? Brazil and Argentina. Go figure.

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