Armed with mountain moving faith, I spent the next two years living in huts while fighting hepatitis, typhoid, and learning to preach in Creole.

Periodically, I would return to the US to work & save enough to fly back & live off my savings; but one night in a church service, I gave away all my money & days later got a free ride on a cruise ship bound for Port au Prince!

As that great ship sailed into Port au Prince Bay, I stood on the bow admiring Haiti’s emerald green mountains framing the bay, when the Holy Spirit spoke to me, “I am giving you this nation for your inheritance.” I was 21 years old with a backpack and about $30 in my pocket.