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Here we go again! march 2014 John and i will be returning to Haiti
for the 4rd time, and taking more people with us!
We will be building homes, helping churches, feeding villages,
supplying medical needs, praying for those who want, and giving much
of ourselves in ways we don't even know yet.
Our plane tickets are roughly $1000 and the cost of the trip is
$650. That means, we need help! We can't get there alone. We would
LOVE the support abnd
help.
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of the cool things about donating to us directly is that you aren’t
just supporting some organization that will use your money in some way
you will never know; you are physically sending us to Haiti to meet
these people, build their houses, feed their children, give medical
aid to the sick, and work alongside them as we try to help them
overcome what earthquakes, disease, and generations of poverty has caused.
We are returning to Haiti for the 4rd time this year in March.
We are taking with us more people, which means more supplies and food
will make its way into the orphanage, it means more money pouring into
the Haitian community, it means more rice and beans to feed the
farmers that are having a drought. It means we get to see amazing
things happen!
It’s expensive to go, but it’s also the best way to get
resources and money to the people. If you were to send a donation to
an organization, much of it won’t get to the people. If you donate to
me, it gets me there, and it get the resources I take there, and it
ends up helping out in unexpected ways:
A Few Stories:
*We were at a site, helping build pews for a church, one of the
young boys was sitting with his mother and a woman on the site noticed
this child. His knee was swollen multiple times its normal size, red
and hard. Someone asked the mom and translated back to us that she
didn’t have the $10 to go to the doctor and get antibiotics, so her
son would most likely die from the infection. John (my husband)
immediately piped up and said we had $10 if it was alright to pay. He
gave the money to the Pastor of the church, who gave it to the woman.
She immediately got up and carried her son to go make arrangement to
get him to the doctor. She was crying and thankful. That $10 was cash
someone had given us.
*We have experienced it multiple times while we were in Haiti,
when during the week, children are dropped off to Dr. Bernard’s care
(the man we stay with in Haiti). He is given their papers and told the
family can no longer care for the children; the child is then cared
for by Dr. Bernard and the women that run the orphanage and school. To
see a mother give her child to someone else is heartbreaking; but it
is all they can do to ensure that their children will survive.
*One morning we went on a pray walk through a village, 5 of us
including a translator and the pastor of the local church. We went up
to a hut, and the pastor asked if we could talk to her, then he looked
at me, as did the rest of the group, guess it was my time to pray I
asked her questions about her life, about her faith, and about what
she wanted. She told us that she had been praying that If God wanted
her to go back to church, to send someone, so when we showed up, she
knew it was God! Her prayers, and our obedience, made the world of
difference and she recommitted her life to Christ. We hugged and went
on to the next house, blissfully rejuvenated.
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