{"id":3294,"date":"2012-06-21T23:48:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T23:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3294"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:56","slug":"piti-piti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3294","title":{"rendered":"Piti Piti"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last July when we had the kids in Haiti for two weeks, we met a small\u00a0group from Spokane, Washington.\u00a0 These folks had developed an ongoing relationship with a pastor and his church in Godin.\u00a0 We had the opportunity to help a bit with the VBS that the Spokane folks had funded.While there in Haiti, the Spokane\u00a0group did a lot of videotaping.\u00a0 Now they&#8217;ve put that footage together and are using it to promote their work with an ongoing\u00a0terracing project there in Godin.\u00a0 I came across\u00a0the finished video\u00a0on Facebook earlier today.\u00a0 Their website is pitipitievents.org.\u00a0 The &#8220;piti piti&#8221; comes from a Haitian saying:  &#8220;Piti piti zwazo fe nich&#8221; &#8211; meaning\u00a0&#8220;Little by little the bird builds its nest.&#8221;I think all six of us appear\u00a0&#8211; briefly &#8211;\u00a0in the video.\u00a0 Also, there are quite a few scenes (especially towards the end) which were filmed on and around the OMS mission compound where we will be living.\u00a0 The video even gives a taste of Haiti&#8217;s difficult history.Check out their website<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pitipitievents.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: white\"><strong> HERE<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0&#8211; and consider giving to help continue the work.Here&#8217;s the video:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last July when we had the kids in Haiti for two weeks, we met a small\u00a0group from Spokane, Washington.\u00a0 These folks had developed an ongoing relationship with a pastor and his church in Godin.\u00a0 We had the opportunity to help a bit with the VBS that the Spokane folks had funded.While there in Haiti, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3295,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions\/3295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}