When visitors go to Haiti, you will find/see/hear about:
1. Widespread corruption, but don't put corruption at the top of your list of problems.
2. Pervasive poverty, but don't put poverty at the top of your list of problems.
3. Hurricane damage, but don't put this damage at the top of your list.
Instead, put 500 years of socioeconomic oppression at the top of your list of Haitian problems; past and present oppression makes poverty worse, hurricane damage worse, and opens the door wide for corruption. Generations of oppression cause individual, family, community and cultural PTSD.
Exodus 6:9: "But when Moses delivered this message [of coming deliverance from slavery], they didn't even hear him---they were that beaten down in spirit by the harsh slave conditions." In modern language, were the Hebrew slaves suffering from mass PTSD?
How does the church heal broken communities? Stay in one location, for a generation, doing CCD.
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