Amos - a friend and hard worker

I wanted to tell you about my dear friend Amos. I worked with Amos a lot in Mizak, Haiti. He was one of the construction bosses for HAPI. He learned the trade from his father John and worked along side him and their friend Silas. Amos was the main guy to go to for estimates on the houses that HAPI was repairing. When I volunteered with HAPI we would go out and inspect homes and Amos and his father would make estimates. He was an extraordinarily hard worker. He was very diligent on working on the projects and was always willing to help out in other areas too. He enjoyed very much working with the teams that came down to work on construction. He fixed many a thing around my house also. One day on the motorcycle, he drove around for taxi he asked me when I was going to visit him, his wife and two kids. I told him we needed to figure out a day and I would come over - I would love to meet his family. I never got that opportunity. But I will visit his wife and children when I return and tell the how much I loved Amos and how much I enjoyed knowing him.
You see Amos was killed 2 weeks ago when he was doing taxi on his motorcycle. A couple of men from PaP were riding with Amos leaving Jacmel. They took his bike and left him by a bridge. There have been reports of this happening other places and it is possibly gang activity.
This is terribly sad of course for Amos's family and friends; but also for the country. There is desperate situations going on in Haiti. People don't have roofs over their head, food on their plates, or clean water to drink. This causes people to lash out in desperate ways. Open your hearts to the people on the island just south of our bountiful country. Lift up prayers and look for ways that you might be able to get involved to help make a difference in the lives of the Haitian people.
Amos was a dear man and will be missed.