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advised. To me, it felt like it went from a color day to a black and white day that I was

driving into no man's land, and I was dead.

Real people.

When they saw me, it's almost like they saw a ghost because they're expecting three people and there's only one.

Who faced death.

He was sort of poking me with that knife and talking to me the whole time.

And I remember thinking, I'm going to die.

And live to tell how.

The minute that gunfire hit me, I just knew that chances were pretty good that I was leaning towards dying that day more than anything else.

This is I survived.

Music dying that day more than anything else. This is I survived. It's 2001 in Port-au-Prince Haiti.

Philip, a missionary, runs a non-profit charity.

He organizes building materials, food, and clothing for Haitians in need.

I founded an organization that gleans resources in the United States and

channels them into the Haitian churches to help the Haitian pastors develop their own programs.

Philip was about to drive to Port-A-Prince with five-year-old Shelton and his father.

Shelton, a local boy, had an eye injury and needed a visa to get treatment in America.

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