{"id":10709,"date":"2007-12-21T13:25:16","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T18:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/?p=10709"},"modified":"2011-08-09T13:27:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T18:27:02","slug":"6018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/2007\/12\/21\/6018\/","title":{"rendered":"Covenanter\u2019s New Book to Benefit Health Clinic in Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STRATHMORE, AB (December 21, 2007) &#8211; Amy Wegner hopes her new book  will fill children with a sense of wonder while also providing money to  further the work of a health clinic in Haiti.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10710\" title=\"Cover\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2011\/08\/Cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"195\" \/>All proceeds from the picture book <em>I Wish It Would Rain<\/em> are being donated to the Eben-ezer Clinic in Haut-Limb\u00e9, Haiti, located  in the north near Cap Haitian. The purchase of one book will fund a  hospital visit and medicine for two children, says Wegner, a member of  Hope Community Covenant Church.<\/p>\n<p>In the book, extreme heat compels  a young North American boy to \u201cwish it would rain big, splashy drops\u201d  while his family visits Haiti. \u201cInstead of rain, what he encounters  reveals to him the wonders and beauty of Haiti,\u201d says Wegner.<\/p>\n<p>Those  wonders include lizards whose tails break off, mangoes that fall from  trees, fire ants, and even big splashy rain drops. The end of the book  contains facts about Haiti and all that the boy sees.<\/p>\n<p>Wegner says  the incidents happened to her own children or to others during a  mission trip her church took to Haiti in 2002. The book came about from  watching Dr. Emmanuel Mareus operate his clinic.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10711\" title=\"Cover-gal\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2011\/08\/Cover-gal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"161\" \/>\u201cWatching  him was like watching Jesus with people,\u201d Wegner says. \u201cWhen we left  Haiti, my husband and I had decided among ourselves that we were going  to support the clinic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wegner wasn\u2019t sure how that was going to  happen, however. Then, she says, \u201cI woke up from a dream where God told  me to write this book. I laughed because I had never done anything like  this before. He\u2019s just brought it all together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That includes  linking her with illustrator Alice Roder. Wegner had been reading  another book the illustrator had worked on. \u201cI looked her up online and  wrote her a letter.\u201d They quickly became partners in the project.<\/p>\n<p>Wegner  has sold 600 of the 2,000 books she has had printed. She is especially  pleased that the project is bringing more exposure to the clinic.  Roder\u2019s church is now considering supporting the clinic, Wegner adds.<\/p>\n<p>The  book also includes comments from Mareus, who writes, \u201cWe just want to  teach patients that they deserve to be treated well because they are  human beings. The people have been denied this basic right for so long,  they\u2019ve come to accept their reality as natural. They do not dream about  another life since they have never been given a chance to taste  something different. We want the clinic to taste of something different  for all the people that are coming to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To purchase a copy of <em>I Wish It Would Rain<\/em>, visit the online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.covenantbookstore.com\/iwiitworaamy.html\" target=\"_blank\">Covenant Bookstore<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire?moderation_action=report_form&#038;object_type=post&#038;object_id=10709&#038;width=250&#038;height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STRATHMORE, AB (December 21, 2007) &#8211; Amy Wegner hopes her new book will fill children with a sense of wonder while also providing money to further the work of a health clinic in Haiti. 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