Comments (49)
JVC EVERIO
The last day of a year that didn't really begin until January 12th at 4:47 p.m.
2011-01-19 15:40:27
Thank you for developing this website. The stories here are worth reading many times over in order to refresh us time and time again to do good and positive things and inspire or influence others to do the same.\r\n
GLADYSMAY
goudougoudou
2010-11-16 18:21:24
With the reality of the damage which you still face day by day we shudder to think of the Cholera epidemic now challenging your people. Your faith in God and the smiles on so many faces when the news is presented is inspirational.
May God's angels continue to surround you in the seen worls as well as the unseen one.
Brisbane L'Arche
JIM CARGIN
Good News
2010-10-29 03:54:27
Thanks Jonathan for the stories of rebirth in Haiti, after such destruction in January. Specially glad to read the interview with Evelyne, part of which will be in our next International Newsletter. I enjoy meeting, through your blog, the characters in the community. Bonne continuation.
SHANNON SKOUSGAARD
Fè respè
2010-09-25 13:27:23
Your blog is deeply moving. Thank you so much for your work for these people, but equally for those of us who need to know more and understand better who they are, how they are so close to God. I often send your posts ot others, and it\'s at the top of my internet page. I always rejoice when there\'s a new posting; they are much too infrequent for my ~ but they are always so rewarding.\r\n\r\nOne question: I cannot find out what Mwen Pa Fou means; it doesn\'t translate in google and no one among my friends who speaks French can translate it for me. Would you tell me? I\'d be most grateful if you could return it to my email, as I\'m not very good at navigating around websites so I haven\'t found your comment section yet! Thank you.
JIM CARGIN
A moment of grace in Vinvince’s universe.
2010-06-08 06:32:19
Thanks for the latest posts, Jonathan: lively as ever, fun, but serious too, in the subject you cover. It brings life to know that after the international media spotlight has long moved on, you are still there bearing witness, and recording the daily life of Haiti through sensitive eyes and carefully chosen words and photos. Jim
JANE SALMONSON
A moment of grace in Vinvince’s universe.
2010-05-25 05:57:35
Hi Johnathan can you help me please?
Friend from UK is heading out to Haiti soon, and wants to take gifts for L'Arche Haiti community. Only restrictions are weight and bulk because gifts will be carried in personal baggage on plane.
Any advice?
Best wishes,
Jane
MARIA ANTONIA DA CONCEIçãO
Exchange Rate & Dirty Work
2010-05-10 09:31:52
Eu gostaria de fazer contato com o (os) respensavel das comunidades do Haiti.
Sou voluntaria na comunidade da Arca do Brasil.
GLADYSMAY
Back Home
2010-04-17 08:03:19
Another Thank You, Jonathon for keeping us in touch with the Story of the people of Haiti. May the authorities be graced to be more helpful as the future unfolds and the relief money finds it way to your shores. How encouraging that events like this this bring people to a realisation of others needs to some degree, even by the example of those most suffering.
Please continue to keep us informed .Hugs and Love from Brisbane L'Arche as we continue to pray for Haiti and all the devastated places of our World currently suffering.
DANIEL BLAIS
Haiti’s Phantom Statistics
2010-04-15 22:06:48
Brilliant article, I really enjoy reading your stuff and looking at your pictures. Interesting how it takes a catastrophe to shake people into a mindset of being on a similar playing field..
Thank you and keep it up!
Peace & blessings,
Dan
JIM CARGIN
Back Home
2010-04-14 06:28:54
Hi, Jonathan,
and thanks for keeping up this blog, your photos, and thoughts. Your words and pictures help reveal the spirit alive in L'Arche Haiti, which we try to live here in L'Arche Brussels, Belgium as well. A warm encouragement. Jim
SUPERMOG
Far Away
2010-04-01 20:20:59
You have tested it and writing form your personal experience or you find some information online?
RENS BROUNS
Ti-Françoise
2010-03-10 19:02:38
In the past ('90's) I visit L'Arche Haïti location Carrefour.
I know Carrefour is exact on the epicentre of the aerthshock.
Some people in Holland want to know how the situation is for the people with mental disease at the moment? Can you give me an mailadres?
Hope you can help me.
All the best greatings and alt the strongth for the people suffer so much at the momet
Rens Brouns
TIM MOORE
Ti-Françoise
2010-03-08 13:56:11
Jonathan,
I'm a former assistant from L'Arche New Zealand and DC. Currently in grad school. Have been following the blog. Thank you for exercising your gifts in this way.
Some students and I are doing all we know to do: raise money. Obviously if there are other ways we can contribute, please let us know. In the meantime, I was wondering if you'd give me permission to use some of your photos for marketing the fundraisers?
Grace and Peace,
Tim Moore
MARY
We are all in the same boat
2010-02-28 16:01:19
Dear Jonathan,
So good to read your updates and to know how 'zanmy mwen yo ye' . Mwen te pase 2 ans nan Larche Chantal e 10 ans nan Kafou. Mwen pa kapab kwe tout sa ki te pase. Gras a Die tout moun bien........relatively speaking! We have been thinking of you all and praying for you.
I am very sorry to hear of Jonas' death..he had great courage. It is so good for me to see photos and hear the news.
Please tell Jacqueline and tout zanmy nou yo that I am with you all in spirit. I would love to e-mail you if it is possible.
Kenbe fem. Pa lage zanmy mwen Jonathan. It is wonderful that you can keep us all informed. Look after yourself
Mary Egan (Ireland)
GILDA VINCENT
Forgetting
2010-02-23 18:13:43
Dear Jonathan,
I did not know that L'Arche had any communities in Haiti until today, when I received an email with a link to your blog. You have brought tears to my eyes with this posting.
I am waiting to get paid so that I can make another donation for earthquake relief in your country. This time I will donate to L'Arche. People with disabilities have long been near my heart, in particular since the birth of my son who has Down syndrome, eighteen years ago.
May God continue to touch you and to use you to touch others.
ERIKA KONYA
Forgetting
2010-02-23 04:08:50
Your penetrating words and photos made my heart ache. It's so important what you do, thank you for sharing.
KATHERINE PARKER
Forgetting
2010-02-21 09:13:21
Hi,
I've received an email from Francis O'Hanlon, who I believe is a friend of you (the blog writer). I've put a link to your blog on my Facebook page for the University of Leeds (UK) Haiti Campaign, which can be found at: http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/group.php?gid=299095309574&ref=ts
It is a very emotive story, and I hope others will be driven to help those less fortunate than themselves when they read it.
Katherine Parker
The University of Leeds Student-Staff DEC Haiti Campaign (UK)
COLETTE COUGHLIN
Forgetting
2010-02-14 20:56:35
Hi Jonathan, Thank you for bringing us a little bit closer to what is happening there with your beautiful photographs and stories of Haitian people. We are so lost in our complexity that we often forget the simplicity of what is most beautiful... people... nature... and life. It is impossible to understand why so many must suffer when there should be enough for all of us, and yet we lose contact with the essential so quickly, we must be grateful for the situations that bring us back there! Thank you for your window on this world... we all need to be shaken up a little perhaps to remember what is most important, to reach out to each other and to take care of the most fragile amongst us first. Love to you all... I wish I could be there to bring food and water and comfort and hugs... but from here in Canada, I still send you all of that with my heart and soul.
Colette Coughlin
ROSIE YEA
Forgetting
2010-02-14 15:57:31
Thank you Jonathan, so much for being there, for sharing your news. I'll pass it on to my children and friends so they will know what's really happening. All our love and prayers. Rosie
ARETAPREAFE
The Shadow of Doubt
2010-02-12 21:15:08
Hi, as you may already noted I'm newbie here.
In first steps it is very nice if somebody supports you, so hope to meet friendly and helpful people here. Let me know if I can help you.
Thanks and good luck everyone! ;)
TOINETTE
Beauties
2010-02-03 14:33:57
100000000000 mercis de partager tes reflections, elles me nourissent, m'eclairent, me derangent....merci d'etre la en solidarite avec le peuple haitien et la communuate. ici on prie pour les communautes, pour toi, pour la vie transformee.
Merci d'etre la
JENN POWER
On the value of being who we are, wherever we find ourselves ...
2010-02-02 08:11:21
Hi Jonathan,
I just wanted to thank you again for your writing from Haiti during this time. We have used your words and photos in our prayers and fundraising activities. You have helped us members of L'Arche, as well as our friends and supporters, to understand some of what you are living and to see how we can be a part of that experience.
Your writing about how this disaster is revealing in a new way the value of people with intellectual disabilities is particularly touching.
Thank you.
Jenn Power
RODERICK MILNE
On the value of being who we are, wherever we find ourselves ...
2010-01-29 16:04:07
Jonathon,
Thank you for being there and enabling us to be with you and all your community. In New Zealand we have a sense of belonging and being committed with you through this blogsite and through our prayers and any practical help we can offer. Our love and thanks.
Roderick Milne of LÁrche Kapiti
TAMMY BARTEL
Road Trip
2010-01-29 13:54:42
I thank God that you are there, extending your hand, truly meeting your brothers and sisters at one of their most vulnerable times. You are bringing to me the the goodness that does exist amongst the turmoil. Stay safe, I extend to you my prayers, blessings, and encouragement.
GLADYSMAY
Here, people die more often while standing up than lying down
2010-01-28 02:01:17
From Brisbane L'Arche Australia we assure you of our trust that God graces all your friends and all assistants in both Communities and the Country of Haiti.
Our Community Leader is keeping us up to date with news as he receives it. Michael also looks at this blog but today I have found the blog with a desire to be in solidarity with you as is our Community at this time.
Blessings of the Fullness of God's Grace be with you Johnathon for the closer insights given to us as well as with everyone in Haiti in the L'Arche 'family'.
Gladysmay
CIARAN FOULDS
Life Changes Us
2010-01-27 23:42:49
Thank you Jonathan. Thank you for sharing with us what is being born in Haiti and not just what is death. Thank you for opening our eyes and our hearts into this transformation of the hearts and souls of a broken people. Thank you for inviting us to to shift our own hearts, our own perceptions. Thank you for inviting us into the gift of new life through relationship. Thank you for your words and for your courage to say them. Thank you.
PAT ANDF JACQUES GOULET
Road Trip
2010-01-25 16:40:09
Bless you, Jonathan, for what you are doing! We are holding all of L'Arche Haiti in our hearts.
SHELLY RUBATINO
Road Trip
2010-01-25 13:10:44
I am brought to a profound sense of gratitude, and tears fill my eyes as I read of the love, inner strength and daily perseverance you live with and carry in your heart, your arms, your labors of each day. I pray for you, the country of Haiti and each member of L'Arche.
God be with you,
Shelly Rubatino / Washington State
JENN POWER
Road Trip
2010-01-25 11:24:05
Jonathan,
Thanks so much for sharing your reflections with us. We feel so close to our brothers and sisters in Haiti these days and pray for you often. This Sunday our local theatre will host a benefit for the communicates of L'Arche in Haiti, and we will use your words and pictures to help folks glimpse the beauty of our people.
I think your presence among the people of Haiti, and your faithfulness especially to the L'Arche communities there, says so much about the meaning of the word "solidarity". Thank you for helping us all to understand more deeply our commitment to each other.
Peace and love to you and all the members of the communities of Carrefour and Chantal.
Jenn
L'Arche Cape Breton
SIL
Road Trip
2010-01-25 00:41:46
I pray for you, hugs from Argentina
God bless you
ELIZABETH A. BUCKLEY
Road Trip
2010-01-24 09:32:58
Tres Cher Jonathan.... Merci! Merci! Merci Bien!! Thank you soo very much!
You all are being held in my deep heartprayer ... and in the prayer of all here at l'Arche-Daybreak.
Vous Tous ètes ici dans la priere de mon coeur profounde... et dans la priere de nous tous ici a l'Arche-Daybreak.
Thank you for being there. Merci pour ètre là
Elizabeth
JO LENON
Road Trip
2010-01-23 18:29:24
thank-you Jonathan...it seems so little to say, yet thank-you for the time, energy you take to communicate to us about what you are seeing, experiencing, holding along with all from Carrefour and Chantal.
many times in the day i think of each person in the communities and entrust them to the heart of God.
thank-you!
IVANA URBANOVA
Road Trip
2010-01-23 17:47:26
We are praying for you all the time. With love Faith and Light Slovakia, Europe
CIARAN FOULDS
Road Trip
2010-01-23 16:17:15
A documentary from Radio Canada on L'Arche Carrefour and Marie-Pier post-earthquake. everybody should watch this :) Enjoy a beautiful and touching portrait of L'Arche Carrefour les amis and Marie-Pier Therrien who I am so privileged to call my friend.
http://www.radio-canada.ca/emissions/une_heure_sur_terre/2009-2010/Reportage.asp?idDoc=101847&autoPlay=http://www.radio-canada.ca/Medianet/2010/CBFT/UneHeureSurTerre201001221900.asx
CIARAN FOULDS
Road Trip
2010-01-23 16:13:09
Hi Jonathan,
Thank you so, so much for your beautiful words that painted the scene for so many of us and touched my heart. I spoke to our community in L'Arche Cork yesterday and used your words to describe what had happened. So many people were moved.
I extend to you all my best wishes and prayers. Especially I send a big hug to Marie-Pier who shared the life with me in L'Arche Daybreak. Please send her a big hug from me and tell her how proud I am of her.
Last night I watched the documentary "Une Heure sur Terre" that documented L'Arche Carrefour and Marie-Pier post earthquake. It is a wonderful documentary of the beauty and goodness of this woman, les amis and the community in Carrefour. For any readers of this blog who have not seen it. Please go to this link.
The community is documented in the 2nd segment from 2mins 15seconds onwards and until the end of the segment.
http://www.radio-canada.ca/emissions/une_heure_sur_terre/2009-2010/Reportage.asp?idDoc=101847&autoPlay=http://www.radio-canada.ca/Medianet/2010/CBFT/UneHeureSurTerre201001221900.asx
JOANABBEY SACK
Alive... and Surviving
2010-01-23 13:50:39
Thank you Jonathan Myself and many others are kept informed and in touch by your writings. At the Centre for the Arts in Human Development where I work all of the participants (with a very wide range of disabilities) are staying with your connection and feel involved and part of this greater whole. On Monday they will again collect their lunch money to send to carrefour at Chantel. We send prayers and hope and community and a great message of appreciation for your writing.
peace
Joanabbey
INGRID BLAIS
Road Trip
2010-01-22 09:17:48
Thank you for writing this blog and telling the stories . In our community we continue to pray daily for you, for our brothers and sisters in the communities in Haiti. Yesterday, two of the assistants here organized a hot dog lunch and over $800 was donated to the Foundation to send to Haiti. I know it is only a drop in the bucket in terms of need but please God there will be many, many such drops. God bless you and keep you all safe. Travel safely to Chantal.
Ingrid Blais, L'Arche Homefires, Wolfville, Nova Scotia
MICHAEL HUTCHINSON
Road Trip
2010-01-22 04:28:27
Our Community (L'Arche Brisbane, Australia) is holding you all in prayer through the days and nights that you are experiencing. We hope that your 'adventure' went well on the 21st and that you are settling well with the members of L'Arche Chantel.
We are gathering as a community on Sunday at 3pm EST to be with you in prayful solidarity.
Blessings.
VALERIE LANDRY
Road Trip
2010-01-21 21:49:20
What can we do to help your organization, and are there others in Haiti that assist people with disabilities?
YAMADA PANDAK OSAMU
Road Trip
2010-01-21 21:47:14
Now we deeply concerned...the situation of community in Haiti, try to organize the support and others they need, and pray for all !
Yamada Pandak Osamu in Tokyo, Japan
SUSAN SEZGIN
Alive... and Surviving
2010-01-20 22:24:00
Hi Jonathan, My name is Susan Sezgin and I'm the webmaster for L'Arche Tahoma Hope. We have created a page with information about the status of the L'Arche communities in Haiti. It includes a link to your blog. Our website is designed to have a photo on each page, and while I have a community photo on the Haiti page right now, I'd love to use one of your photos - I especially love the one with the girl in the orange tank top in your first posting. Would it be ok with you if I copied and pasted that photo onto our page - just for this purpose? The link to our page is: http://www.larchetahomahope.org/A-AboutLarche/Haiti.html Thank you, Susan
GERRY O'HANLON
Here, people die more often while standing up than lying down
2010-01-14 18:36:06
I've been priviledged enough to enough to get to know a few Codys. I eally enjoyed reading your thoughts and will come back again to take in more.
Best wishes, prayers and thinking of you all,
Fran's Dad, Gerry
ERICA SCHMIDT
Here, people die more often while standing up than lying down
2010-01-14 11:49:41
Hi Jonathan,
I'm a former assistant from L'Arche Montreal. We met briefly at L'Esquif and I admired your shoes. I'm extremely relieved to learn that you and the community are okay.
Thank you so much for your courage and generosity. I'm thinking of you a lot.
With love for you and the community,
Erica.
MARIE-DIANE
From the Dominican Republic and From My Journal
2009-12-04 13:05:20
Bonjour Jonathan
Je te remercie de nous partager tes histoires. Simplicité et humanité voilà ce que j' y retrouves. Merci d' offrir un regard de fraicheur sur un monde qui en a tant besoin.
Mon ami Bernard souhaite te dire qu' il pense beaucoup à toi. Il te souhaite également de passer de belles Fêtes.
En solidarité avec toi.
BBBBBBBBBBBBBBB et
Marie-Diane
From the Dominican Republic and From My Journal
2009-11-27 03:45:10
…ummhh…first, please forgive me for my english, I don’t pronounce it very well yet, ja! I knew El Arca de Santo Domingo about 1 month ago, …so, i know that you are talking about… And, yes!, I accepted Jesus in my life after knowing him. How it’s possible not to accept so adorable boy!...and the other kids too (because for me, they are kids on big bodies). Was love at first sight…is the most wonderful experience on my life on this year. So, I am very, very happy for having found this “Arca” full of so unbelievable treasures. Wonderful work!...go ahead!!
ELIZABETH A. BUCKLEY
From the Dominican Republic and From My Journal
2009-11-19 14:38:38
Cher Jonathan, MERCI BIEN!!!!
You will never know the joyous lift your "note" has given me. 20 years ago I spent several weeks in l'Arche Santo ... I am happy to see the Rossina,who fed us all so well and Unilivia, Luisito. Heriberto, Jocelyn have grown into their beauty.
You and all are held in my heartprayer here in the heart of l'Arche in Canada .. Daybreak.
Blessings of peace, Elizabeth
RACHEL
From the Dominican Republic and From My Journal
2009-11-15 04:17:05
Hello there Jonathan,
Thanks so much for making your blog available for others. It's very very speical what you are doing and it's great that you can share it with friends and family back home. The photos are really well taken- ils nous transportent jusqu'a Haiti!!
I actually came across your blog whilst doing some research on "L'arche"
Are you able to offer advice for somebody hoping to visit a l'Arche community as a short-term volunteer? You have obviusly been involved for quite a while, which is wonferful. Is there anything in particular that a volunteer could bring during a stay of just several weeks?
Many thanks. Je te souhaite de bon courage. :)
GREGORY
“Blocus” in Port-au-Prince
2009-10-30 09:48:34
Merci de nous faire partager ton engagement Jonathan. Tes textes et photos te ressemblent tant. Plein d'humour et d'humanité.
A bientôt
JO LENON
Léo and Boss Jean
2009-10-24 00:26:13
I love this Jonathan! I live in L'Arche Lethbridge, AB. My husband Pat and I have been members of l'Arche for 36 years now and this kind of adventure you undertake is wonderful. inspiring...thank-you!
