Ryan and Melissa Alberts

Category: Haiti

  • ECC Visit in Review

    Had a great time with the ECC team which included Brian, Tim, Mary, and Chris.  We all did quite a bit while they were here. We enjoyed having the team friends!  They were encouraging and such an honor to be around.  It’s often hard to find the words to describe what it is like living…

  • Creole Singing

    Concert put on for a bunch of us at the Harbor House.  It took me several hours to upload this video.  It didn’t upload the first three times I tried it :-D.  I finally decided to switch over to our Natcom stick and then it uploaded!  Yeah!  It’s great because then I can share with…

  • ECC Group Visit

    We are having a great time with the Emmanuel Covenant Church team down visiting and doing some work.  ECC is our home church and have enjoyed hosting them down here in Haiti.  They have come for a number of reasons but in a nutshell they are doing an exploratory visit to check out what ministries…

  • 3 Humorous Sightings in Haiti

    1. Painted around the UN base walls  Photo by: Jimmy Burton Sign Reads – “No trespassing risk to be molested and put in jail” Not sure what happened but I am pretty sure they didn’t mean molested – something is lost in translation 🙂  This sign appears by the UN base near the Port Au…

  • Caught Between Two Worlds

    Ryan and I have now been home in Minnesota and Wisconsin for about two weeks and are preparing to travel back to Haiti on Thursday.  We have had a great time visiting family and friends, going to our favorite restaurants, shopping for items we need in Haiti, and maybe relaxing a little bit.  It is…

  • Heartline Ministries on the News

    Heartline Ministries was recently featured on the Denver channel 9 news. Although the news anchor said Heartland instead of Heartline in one of the videos – it is still fun to watch ;-). Helping Haiti Recover   Helping Mothers in Haiti   One Source of Water   Education   More videos can be found on the channel…

  • Dinner Time Reflection

    As Melissa mentioned before, January was a crazy, crazy month.  I decided to investigate some statistics for the month! Guest Stats 221 Individual guests 441 Beds taken during the month 14 Average number of people staying on a given night 39 The max number of people we had stay for one night As you can…

  • Sex-Trafficking at the Super Bowl & in Haiti

    This was going to be a short post with a quote and link to an article I read on sex-trafficking at the super bowl.  Then I realized it would be good to gather together some thoughts about the issues with sex-trafficking here in Haiti.  I wish I could say sex-trafficking didn’t happen in Haiti.  It…

  • Espwa Fè Viv – Hope Makes Us Live

    Espwa fè viv – hope makes us live It’s a Haitian proverb with a lot of meaning.  It could also be translated, “hope creates life”.  Hope that tomorrow can be different. There are stories after stories of devastating and sad situations in Haiti.  You don’t have to look far. For example, the following: Lucienne is one of…

  • January

    This month has been quite the whirlwind.  We’ve literally had hundreds of guests come in and out of our doors, thousands of pounds of loaded suitcases hauled in and out, prepared enough food to feed several armies, and answered the same questions over and over and over…  I’m not going to lie – it’s been…

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