Jack Wehmiller Represents ROW In Haiti
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Jeff Gill of The Gainesville Times, recently wrote a story published on February 13th about “Jack The Baptist” (Jack Wehmiller) who was recently in Haiti on behalf of ROW to bring relief and support to those most affected.
Jack Wehmiller heard that she could sing, so he asked the young Haitian woman, through an interpreter, for a song.
Miguelina Site, who had lost part of her left leg and right arm to the Jan. 12 earthquake, smiled.
“She raised her left hand, the only hand she had (remaining), into the air, closed her eyes … and sang like an angel,” Wehmiller said. “I only understood one word, because the whole song was in Creole, and the word was ‘Hallelujah.’ ”
The North Hall man, talking about the experience in an interview Wednesday at First Baptist Church in Gainesville, said the experience “set the mood” for the rest of his trip to the Dominican Republic to help refugees from neighboring Haiti.
“This was a person who had a tremendous amount of physical damage to herself, she was in a place that was uncomfortable to her because it was not her home, she had lost other family members and certainly friends.
“And yet, she was capable of not losing her faith during the worst of times.”
Wehmiller, an active First Baptist member, visited the Dominican Republic from Jan. 27 to Feb. 4, spending one day in Haiti, as a representative of Rivers of the World, a Dawsonville-based Christian ministry.
To see many of the pictures Jack took while in Haiti, click here.
