Lessons from the battlefields of WWI, and New Life for Haiti

This week marks the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I, when Austria-Hungary declared war on July 28, 1914. Sixty five million soldiers fought in that war, a war which reshaped Europe and relations between nations. We’ll examine the impact of WWI with Adam Hochschild, author, most recently of To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918' and WBEZ political reporter Alex Keefe, who just returned from a trip exploring the battlefields of WWI.
And, we first met Global Activist Fran Leeman in 2009. He’s lead pastor of Life Spring Church in Plainfield, Illinois. Leeman founded New Life for Haiti (NLH) in 2005. They do sustainability and development work in a river valley in Haiti. An NLH team of adult leaders and teens just returned from a trip there. While they were there, they hiked to a remote mountain village called Plaine Marie to paint a school they built there last year. Pastor Leeman, NLH Youth Pastor, Scott Derengowski and teenager Katy Deenihan, will us more about their trip.

(photo: An array of shells at the Memorial Museum of Passendale, in the Belgian town of Zonnebeke. (Photo and editing courtesy of Keenan Wells))