Ryan and Melissa Alberts

Category: Haiti

  • Merry Christmas

    Merry Christmas friends and family! Thanks for all your support during this year.  We have transitioned from Haiti back to the states.  Currently seeing where our future holds.  We have both been involved with Haiti – more to come on that front in the next post. We were reminiscing of last year and the year before…

  • Debriefing at Missions Training International – Reverse Culture Shock

    We spent a week at Missions Training International (MTI) in Colorado Springs debriefing from our 2 years in Haiti. Did you know debriefing is actually a military term?  The military meaning of the word is “to unload confidential material so as not to be tempted to share these things when returning out into the world.”  A…

  • Traveling to WI, MN, SD, WA, CO!? Oops!

      Well well well… I think we are finally relaxing a bit (at least as I begin to type out this post – might be different by the time I am done).  You see, we had planned some visits when being back but didn’t realize what that all really entailed. It was kind of like,…

  • Used to Seeing… Now Seeing…

    We have landed safely in the land of a-m-a-z-i-n-g-n-e-s-s!  Don’t get me wrong.  I love Haiti and always will!  Dodging traffic or riding the motorcycle was always an adventure.  It’s kind of like a video game driving around Port Au Prince.  You just don’t get a +1 life-up or a redo :-D.  As long as…

  • Haitian Wedding

    Risline, who works at the guest house, got married yesterday!  She has been a part of Heartline for a long time.  We have enjoyed getting to know her.  She can be quiet, but get Melissa joking around with her and she will laugh more than anyone! The wedding yesterday was beautiful.  I would love to…

  • Uncomfortable Living in a Haitian Village

    We have been busy with Lifetree groups this last three weeks.  Just before all the craziness began, the Heartline driver, Nick, finished his time with us.  He moved out to a small village called Ravine Seche.  It’s a small fishing village right next to the Caribbean. You may remember this village from Melissa’s blog titled, Ever seen…

  • Christ Has Rank Among World’s Great Thinkers

    I know lots of people have different opinions of Bono.  I haven’t really followed him at all but I came across this link posted on Facebook. I thought it was an interesting short read.  Link provided to the full transcript below.  Enjoy! Clip from a recent interview with Bono (Michka) …Christ has his rank among…

  • Life on Steriods

    Season of Lifetree Groups June is the month of Lifetree groups.  We just finished up our first week of 33 people.  During one night this past week, the power at the Guest House was going off and tripping the inverter even though we had EDH (city power). As an aside, we have this happen pretty…

  • Homeless in Haiti

    At the guesthouse, we have many extra suitcases sitting around that people leave behind after emptying them.  A while back, Judithe, one of our workers, asked if she could have one to keep her belongings in.  Yes, one suitcase for everything she owned.  So we said, sure, no problem.  A couple weeks later she reluctantly came up…

  • Closing Chapter – After 2 Years in Haiti

    It’s the time I have been dreading.  So to just rip off the band-aid: We are leaving Haiti at the end of July. It’s so hard to figure out how to explain that we are leaving Haiti.  It’s difficult to even know what to write. Delete, delete, delete. Everything I write seems to be awkward or…

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