Dicks get first-hand look at one of world’s poorest nations

Cap-Haïtien, Haiti — Walking down the streets of Grundy Center, it’s easy to take life for granted. There is plenty of food, clean water and a warm, dry place to sleep at night.
    It is not like that everywhere in the world. A local minister and his wife saw that first-hand last month when they spent nearly two weeks in the poorest nation in the northern hemisphere, Haiti.
    Phil Dicks, pastor at the Grundy Center United Methodist Church and his wife Connie visited Haiti as the guests of missionary Steve Gross and his family. While there they led a retreat for missionaries and also to experience the country in anticipation of taking members of the church back later this year.
    Much of their time in Haiti was spent in and around Cap-Haïtien, one of the largest cities in the nation and the location of a large One Mission Society compound that features a seminary, a medical clinic, a church and a school.
 
For more of this story see the March 19 Grundy Register.