I heard about New Wineskins and got this address through my friend and
former co-worker, Jean Remy Azor, a long-time member of the MCC Haiti
team.

In recent years, i worked on the 50-year MCC Haiti history.  That
process proved to be a difficult and challenging experience for
everyone involved.  May the present stagnancy of that writing project
be a testimony that all glory should go to God and not to any human
being or human institution.  To a great extent, the center of the
controversy was trying to put new wine in old wineskins.

For example, what was being attempted was a transcultural history.  It
tried to balance cultural worldviews.  Yet the MCC Haiti team,
generally speaking, didn't like it.

There is a framed MCC poster that hangs at the entrance to the MCC
house in Port-au-Prince.  Ron Tinsley did it in 2002 i think.  Entitled
"Who do you say Jesus is?" the poster penetrates issues of race and
racism.  A Haitian friend visited me while i was working on the
conclusion to the MCC Haiti history and alerted me to the centrality of
its truth regarding the Haitian-North American cross-cultural
interface.  Yet this very page was edited out of the document as it
presently stands.

Spilled wine.

I've tried to keep this email short and to the point to allow anyone in
MCC the opportunity to direct any further discussion.  But let me
finish with another metaphor:  Good history is like good wine.

Blessings to y'all n to all those around y'all.
Peace, Love, Joy in Him,
Keith Ejen Hess