Somewhere between the facts and the misinformation of the Haiti situation is a story about people. People who want to work and have a safe place to live. People who worry about their children in Ohio and their families back in Haiti. People who long for home.

For some, “home” is a place they haven't seen in years. It is a mother, a father, a wife, a husband or a child who has remained behind. It is a neighborhood remembered through photographs and video calls. It is a life interrupted by circumstances beyond their control.

Viles Dorsainvil has a child he hasn't seen in five years. His child was just one year old when he left. His brother left behind a pregnant fiancée. That baby is now five years old. He has never held his child. He has seen the child only through FaceTime. Those stories are common among young men who came to the U. S.

Five years. Try to imagine missing those first steps, losing a first tooth, the birthdays, Christmases, and the first day of school. Those seemingly little things become the big things when we look back on childhood, and then imagine you’re watching them happen through a phone.

There is so much confusion and vitriol surrounding the Haitians in Springfield. But how does Scripture tell us we should treat the foreigner? God didn't mention the foreigner once and move on. He kept bringing it up.

When God gave Moses the law, He specifically addressed how the Israelites were to treat the foreigner living among them. Leviticus tells us that God actually protects the foreigner. In Leviticus 19 it says, “Do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.”…. READ MORE….