Things You’ve Never Seen on a Motorcycle

After living in Haiti for eight years, we’ve seen a lot.  But here’s one thing we’ve never seen before-- motorcycle carrying a coffin.  Actually, coffin-making is a pretty big business in Haiti.  In fact, the organization that made all of World-Renew’s 3,500 houses for earthquake survivors in Haiti used to make coffins and cabinets before the 2010 earthquake.  Also, it is very common to find carpenters making coffins by hand throughout Haiti.  It is normal for Haitians to take massive loans and exhaust their savings to pay for a funeral for a loved-one.  We have often thought how ironic it is that the dead burden the living with such crushing debt.  However, there is a social expectation that the family of the deceased will provide a significant amount of food for family and friends.  Of course, funerals are big-business in North America, with families often resorting to insurance policies to cover the burdensome costs of a funeral.  However, regardless whether we are buried in a tuxedo in a beautiful casket or in an a wooden box (or urn), the one thing that matters most about dying is what will happen on the day that Christ returns and the dead are raised.  On that day, only our eternal security in Christ will matter!