Gosh, what an inspiration last night that extended into this morning!!! Well, I definitely have to share this you!!
I had a wonderful visit with a wonderful friend last night about our upcoming mission trip to Haiti in May. She was asking many good questions, but one of them is the reason I stayed up last night – deep in thought. “What will we be doing there and why do they need us?” The question came as a result of her conversations with fellow collegues of their experiences on mission. She works in the medical field and when told about the many medical mission trips that people have gone on where they are performing surgeries from sun up to sundown and the lines of people waiting for much needed medical care, she wondered about what she would be doing – distributing fruit trees??? She brought up a very good question that many others may have, so this is basis for my big inspiration.
You know, there are many people who don’t think they are needed on a mission trip. They aren’t doctors or nurses; they don’t have construction or engineering skills. Some people don’t feel like they have any skills to offer. But that’s OK. They are all wrong!! While all those roles mentioned are very important and needed, so is the basic role of simply loving your neighbor and caring for the poor. We do just this with our “Hands for Haiti” mission. As my favorite quote from St. Francis of Assisi says, “Preach the Gospel at all times, use words if necessary.” We are doing just that! The Gospels emphasize LOVING others and SERVING others and taking care of the POOR. And actually, when you go to Haiti, you will see that they will LOVE us and they will SERVE us and you will wonder who’s really POOR? And what is “poor” anyway? Are we poor in our own hearts? You will be touched in a way that you have never been touched before. You experience a kind of Love that you may not have ever experienced before. Be always open!!!
Yes, we will be delivering fruit trees to the poorest in the mountains and we will be visiting people in remote places and we will be immersed in Haitian culture. We will be served and loved as much as we will be serving and loving and the exchange will be beautiful and life changing and humbling.
Let’s go to Haiti together. Holding hands with each other, extending hands to others, receiving hands from new friends and bringing hands back that are changed and renewed with the love of Christ, ready to greet anything God is calling for our lives with JOY!!!
If you can’t come with us on our journeys, please join with us by following our blog site while we are there. You, too, can experience the beauty of Christ’s love in your heart, spilling out over everyone you meet. Follow us and pray for us!!
God bless, Debbi
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