Ben Homan Reflects on Career Serving the Global Church

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Ben Homan Reflects on Career Serving the Global Church

The stench of bodies still entombed in debris filled the air. In early 2010, Ben Homan, then CEO of Food for the Hungry, was in Haiti responding to a massive earthquake that struck the country in January of that year. As he surveyed the damage, Homan was shocked by the destruction that had killed nearly 250,000 people. The tragedy showed him how much a worldview can magnify the death toll in a natural disaster. “A Voodoo framework, such as what …