{"id":23925,"date":"2011-01-10T18:17:28","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T18:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/pushing_back_the_darkness_-_alabama_episcopalians_continue_haitian_mission\/"},"modified":"2011-01-10T18:17:28","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T18:17:28","slug":"pushing_back_the_darkness_-_alabama_episcopalians_continue_haitian_mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23925","title":{"rendered":"&#39;Pushing back the darkness&#39; &#8212; Alabama Episcopalians continue Haitian missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s rubble in the streets, cholera in the water, anger among the voters &#8211; and glimmers of hope in surprising places in Haiti, say Episcopal volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>A team of physicians, nurses and others will be returning to Haiti for the 10th trip this year organized by Episcopalians. The week-long mission, which starts Saturday, will fall on the anniversary of the deadly earthquake that razed much of Port au Prince.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Haiti is probably in one of the darkest times in its entire history,&#8221; said the Rev. Deacon Dave Drachlis of St. Thomas Episcopal Church, who will be returning for his eighth mission this year. &#8220;But, believe it or not, there is hope. Hope comes in the presence of people who support our ministries there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.al.com\/living-times\/2011\/01\/pushing_back_the_darkness_--_e.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s rubble in the streets, cholera in the water, anger among the voters &#8211; and glimmers of hope in surprising places in Haiti, say Episcopal volunteers. A team of physicians, nurses and others will be returning to Haiti for the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23925\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,48,50,206,66,241,182,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-international-news-commentary","category-caribbean","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-haiti","category-missions","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}