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Shamed By Selfishness
I’m moving soon. Like 8 days soon. Whew. I could gush to you about my awesome creative husband who builds beautiful houses which we enjoy for a few years before selling, only to start the whole crazy...
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Weddings In Haiti
Almost 20 mother-of-the-bride dresses, a handful of flower-girl dresses and a bunch of sewing supplies are heading to the Dorcas Ministry Shop. (If you are interested in the background of the bridal...
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A New Home In Haiti
This was Alix’s home. This little structure of sticks and mud with a tin roof. This is a photo I recently received showing Alix’s completed new home. Alix is a young man who was sponsored through...
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Heading to Church in Haiti
Revelation 7:9-10 After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb....
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The Trivial is Drowning Out the Eternal
It’s midnight and a slightly broken heart and a brain on overdrive won’t let me sleep. I’m not gonna tell you what has me all twisted up inside because it is almost embarrassingly trivial. But that’s...
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Serving Others
“The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ But…the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop to help this man,...
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Livesay Haiti Weblog – Our Eyes are Open, But Do We See?
Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and be a hero; better to be content with poverty than to die a slave to wealth; better to have taken some risks and lost than to have done...
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Hope And Not Disgrace
Pretty little girls from a Haitian village peering into the church building in the space between the walls and the ground.
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Our Mission to Haiti Sponsor Kids
Corey and I are hanging out with Lucson and Pierre in this photo. They are roughly the same ages as Carter and Owen and we have been sponsoring them through Mission to Haiti for a number of years. On...
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Rosemina Needs A Sponsor
Rosemina lives in the rural community of Guedon. Her father and mother are unemployed. Jobs are not always available. Rosemina has 2 sisters and 2 brothers. For fun, Rosemina enjoys playing dolls with...
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Baby Clothes Heading to Heartline Ministries in Port au Prince, Haiti
Thanks to all of your generous donations we have 76 little baby outfits boxed up and ready to head to Heartline Ministries Maternity Center in Port au Prince, Haiti. In Haiti, a woman’s lifetime risk...
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The Poor and The Prideful – A Mission to Haiti Experience Changed My Worldview
I wanted to walk into their homes and see and feel and know what their lives were like. The day-to-day lives of sponsored children in Haiti. Traveling down the pot-holed back roads of Port au Prince...
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Handmade American Girl Doll Dresses and Food for Haiti
Did you eat breakfast today? Have a lunch date planned? Dinner in the crockpot? Millions of Haitians have empty tummies and are wondering where their next meal will come from. At 500 Dresses, we’ve...
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Help Make A Haitian Wedding Happen
This is Brunel. He is a tailor living in Port au Prince, Haiti, and he is getting married. Much like in the US, weddings in Haiti are a big deal. Also like in the US, they are a big expense. The...
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Haitian Wedding Ceremony Traditions
Brunel and his Bride-to-Be This month we are raising funds to help pay for Brunel’s wedding ceremony. Our goal is to cover the $250 cost required to secure the appropriate government paperwork....
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Help Us Feed Haitians
“Have you even for one second in your life been hungry?” That question, posed to me by a Haitian interpreter in 2012, has haunted me ever since. Read the following little story I wrote a couple years...
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