February 22, 2012

A team from the Chambersburg Church of God and their former pastor Earl Mills, who is the new Director of the Great Lakes Region, arrived.  We attended the Chandelle Church on Sunday and Pastor Earl spoke.  This team with 24 members was the largest team to come to Borel and they set several records.  They brought 108 jars of peanut butter, they drank 150 sodas, they gave out over 400 balloons and thousands of pieces of candy and toys during the children’s program they hosted at Chandelle, they distributed a hundred Christian Creole tracks as they walked through Te Riviere, and they donated 6 units of blood at Hospital Albert Switzer.  Most of all this team abundantly shared Christ’s love with us and the Haitian people in many joyous ways. The week was filled with work projects on the compound, trips into the surrounding community, and putting a new roof on a portion of the school at Chambersburg’s sister church in Chandelle. 

The sister church program offers great opportunities for churches in the U.S. to build long term relationships with a church in Haiti.  If your church has a sister church we’d love for you to spend time working there on your next team visit to Haiti.  The visits and financial support given by the U.S. church is reciprocated with spiritual up lifting and lasting friendships.  There are many churches and schools in Haiti who need a sister church.  Some are very large others are quite small.  Many have a school that is part of the program.  Some are in cities; others are in very remote areas.  Your church could find a sister church that fits your interests and abilities.  For more information about the sister church program contact the General Conference office at 419-424-1961.

We look forward to seeing the members of this team leading teams back in years to come.  May we lift one another up in prayer as Paul taught us in II Thessalonians 1:11-12 With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may count you worthy of His calling, and that by his power he may fulfill every good purpose of yours and every act prompted by your faith.  We pray this so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you and you in him, according to the grace of our God and Lord Jesus Christ.