Dancing on Empty

In 2010, Haitian worship leader Dieumème Noelliste lost everything in the Port-au-Prince earthquake — his home, his church building, three members of his congregation. For two weeks he slept under a tarp made from a bedsheet, eating rice handed out by relief workers. His piano was buried under rubble. His songbook was gone. On the third Sunday after the quake, Dieumème gathered what remained of his congregation in a dusty parking lot.…