The immediacy has died down. The fervent fever pitch has subsided. The situation in Haiti isn’t any less severe; it’s just that daily responsibilities crowded their way back into our lives. I had to return to work. The kids needed to finish homework, go to guitar lessons and pack lunches...

In 1997, Sarah and I led our first team to Haiti. We were going to build a school in the remote community of Baissin Caimman. There was no electricity, no running water; in fact, there was barely a two-track road cut through the brush to get there. We worked hard that week – mixing cement by...

Haiti H2O has been planning on going in to Haiti to visit our partners as soon as it was appropriate. Since we are not doctors or trained rescue workers, we realize that our task is not to do search and recovery work in Port au Prince, but rather to continue to work with people in specific communities...