When the Haiti earthquake hit earlier this year, the world was praising Twitter for it’s instant news updates, opinions on the situation, and even cries out from survivors for rescue!  I was hooked.  I began to follow some of the major players getting news out from the ground level and I was checking every day, multiple times for what they were saying.

I had visited Haiti in 2007 for a mission trip and absolutely fell in love with Port au Prince, so my draw to finding out exactly what was going on, brought me to Twitter.  Today, I am still following some of the people I started following that week that are still there at ground zero.  (inc. a missionary, a radio personality, and a ‘regular’ citizen of Haiti).  Their tweets remind me to pray for the situation in Haiti.

So what am I supposed to tweet about?  I tweet in spurts, about 2-3 within 30 minutes, then nothing for a few days.  Usually about how I am feeling about Jr.High ministry.  My hope is not simply that this is a healthy release of my thoughts, some sort of therapy, but that somehow, somewhere, someone is reading my thoughts and is encouraged, is led to think, and hopefully led to pray for us.

Apparently 70% of tweets get no response from anyone.  Simply read, and forgotten about.  My question, is what I’m writing leading my readers to another thought…to fall in love with [Haiti] ?

Please follow @troylivesay (missionary, in Haiti), and @realhope4haiti (mission organization restoring hope in this broken country).