Begin--Doug--7/31/2015

It's hard to believe that Kè Nou is 5 1/2 years old now. I may have lost count, but I choose to believe that this is our 12th mission trip to Haiti. This is a new place for us. Cap Hatien is on the north coast of Haiti. Near here, Christopher Columbus wrecked the Santa María and founded La Navidad, the first European settlement in the Western Hemisphere. Cap Haitien is where my wife Sabine was born. And it is here where I bring both my daughters to share in this experience.  It's with a restive spirit that I look forward to this week. We want to do some good work. We want to help some people feel better and get some healing. We also are especially eager to see if we can establish a foothold that will allow us to help improve the health of this entire community in the years to come. I hope we find some WiFi to share our stories. For now, on to Fort Lauderdale.