NPR did a segment this morning on students from California sending pen pal-style letters to children in Haiti affected by the quake (link).
One girl, Stefica, responded to her letter by singing. And it was caught on tape.
The best part is, however-many-million NPR radio listeners were exposed to a few moments of worship from a little girl in Haiti who has nothing and, at the same time, everything.
Here’s a quote from the story over at NPR.org which includes the lyrics she sang:
Sixteen-year-old Stefica Jean Pierre even wrote in English: "I thank your school for the money sent to my country. I am very happy for the poem you wrote. I don’t know anything about poetry, but I will sing for you."
I recorded her beautiful voice soaring over the misery around her: "I’m so glad you’re here in my life," she sang. "I’m so glad you came to save us."
If you’ve sung in church any time in the last decade, you’ll likely recognize those lyrics. If you haven’t, they’re from a venerable worship tune called Lord I Lift Your Name On High. By today’s standards that songs played out. But to hear Stefica sing it, it’s as if it came off the drawing board yesterday.
Stefica, thank you. For a moment, you lead lots of people in worship.
I’ve helped Los with his blog a few times and, all in all, he’s a stand up guy. Not just some worship leader who stays on the stage and in the comfort zone but a guy who goes to Uganda to tell the world about its plight and drops everything and moves because God told him to (find out more over at his blog).
Give his EP a listen and prep yourself to pick up his full album in April. If you’ve never visited his blog, Ragamuffin Soul, be sure and do so. You can also follow @loswhit on Twitter.
Those of you who like lists (I love lists, btw) will get a kick out of this post. Here’s our tentative itinerary for 1/21-1/25.
Thursday, 1/21
6:00am DELTA 5960 Indianapolis to Atlanta (track us for free at FlightAware), arrive at 7:38am local time
9:50am DELTA 693 Atlanta to Guatemala City (FlightAware), arrive at 12:20pm local time (gaining an hour)
Afternoon – Up in the air at the moment. We have to do some grocery shopping for our Friday morning Compassion visit (which we may have time to do Friday morning). I believe we’re also going to try and visit the Buckner baby’s home.
Evening – dinner at Casa Chapina, Cafe Sayul or NAIS Aquarium.
Friday, 1/22
7:30am-11:30am Wendy and I get to meet with Sammy, one of our sponsored Compassion children at his home, then Jody gets to meet with Miguel, one of her sponsored Compassion children in his home.
Afternoon – Spend time with the boys at Eliza Martinez, starting day one of our three day life skills courses. We developed these in response to the regular needs boys learning some skills they’ll need to operate as productive citizens once they come of age and leave the orphanage.
Evening – dinner at Casa Chapina, Cafe Sayul or NAIS Aquarium.
Saturday, 1/23
Morning – possibly more time at the Buckner baby’s home
Afternoon – more time at Eliza Martinez with our continuing life skills courses.
Evening – dinner at Casa Chapina, Cafe Sayul or NAIS Aquarium.
Sunday, 1/24
Morning – unplanned at the moment. This may end up being some much-needed downtime
Afternoon – Our final day with the Eliza Martinez boys. We’ll be wrapping up our life skills courses and cooking lunch with the boys (spaghetti, garlic bread and salad). This will be a hoot!
Evening – our final dinner in Guatemala for this trip. Undecided where we’ll go at this point.
Monday, 1/25
Morning – packing and travel to the airport
1:50pm DELTA 692 Guatemala City to Atlanta (FlightAware), arrive at 6:25pm local time (losing an hour)
8:30pm DELTA 5949 Atlanta to Indianapolis (FlightAware), arrive at 10:07pm local time
NPR did a segment this morning on students from California sending pen pal-style letters to children in Haiti affected by the quake (link).
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Jesus follower.
