The face of Jesus in Haiti

It was an incredible time knowing that God has called, released and confirmed our family to move to Haiti for full time missions.  This team was sweet as we experienced our passion with students, other Haitian adoption families and friends.  They were awesome and from Heartline friends, to GVCM orphanage (where Ava is from) to NWHCM (our future home) we soaked in new experiences and saw God's hand through love.  We found a profound truth that poverty is not a lack of stuff but lack of spirit and spiritual poverty is far more spread than Haiti; it's everywhere. Oppression can be easily masked by stuff and business and that is one form of oppression that is exposed and raw in Haiti; not a lot of stuff and not a lot of jobs therefore community happens because there is time for it.
  I pray that these encounters were life changing...they have been within me as I anquish over the Haitian people as Paul did over Israel in Romans 9.  I desire to share this passion, leaving a legacy.  I feel like Peter and John who said in Acts 4:20 that they could not stop speaking about what they had seen and heard.  I can't get over Jesus and I am so honored that God chooses to use the foolish things of this world because I get the humbling privelage to live among and grow in Christ with my haitian brothers and sisters...
This week we experienced:
- A still birth where a four month term baby was delivered and we grieved with a broken hearted mother
-MANY VBS's with kids all over the island and with NWHCM nutirition program
- Praying for Voodoo monument at Ansofalor followed by an afternoon at the beach
-Seeing our GVCM family, encouraging pastor Yves, doing spas for the nannies and a godly men's conference and basketball tournament with the boys
-Hut to Hut grocery ministry and clinic
-Praying over a new church plant in Bershae (Pastor Fritz) and bringing them funds for a goat and chicken outreach
-Dedicating newborn twins on the countryside of GVCM and visiting church members and the twins I dedicated three years ago.
-Seeing my daughter's biological mother Betty and also getting to see the union of another adoptive family
-Visiting with ex-campers from our Haiti camp days and seeing one of his friends get saved!
-partaking in the awesome ministries of NWHCM and fellowshipping with our family there
-Doing a "Home Makeover" for a missionary family
-Visiting the jail and brothel, praying and doing devotions in St. Louis de Norde
-Giving love bags at the special needs Miriam Center and Gramoun Center
-Sharing and leading worship with the NWHCM mission teams, and interns
-Got to see our future home and get instructions for shipping and the list of needs to work on in order to get on ground in Haiti in four months!
God has moved mightily and been so good!  Awesome God!  Awesome mission trip...
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