February 29, 2012

Bob Eatherton, the Director of the Midwest Region led a group of pastors and church leaders from that region that had never been to Haiti.  Their ministry focus was to travel to several area churches and schools to see the needs and lift them up in prayer.  They hoped also to identify churches/schools in need of sister churches and to bring that information back to churches in the Midwest.  On Sunday we worshiped with our brothers and sisters at the Freycenau church and went by the Elim church in St. Marc.  The next two days the group painted one of the Homes for Haiti in the morning and traveled to churches in the afternoon.  The Ti Riviere church needed assistance with the school which is in the church building, the church at Savanne Tapion needs  a sister church, the church at Verette  presently is just poles without a roof or walls.  Our biggest challenge was going to two mountain churches.  We were able to drive to Godin, which desperately needs church benches since theirs were stolen as well as extensive work on the building.  The church at Gesse was an hour and a half drive and a 30minute walk.  Their sister church has provided a lot of assistance and the church building, which is also the school,  is in good shape.  The need there was for the funds to provide school lunches of beans and rice.  Please contact the General Conference office or Steve Mossburg if you are interested in helping with any of these needs as a sister church or work team.  We are striving to push more teams out into the surrounding communities.  The final day at Borel the team led the dedication of the completed Homes for Haiti.  Our prayer is that as this team returns home, the experiences they had here will spur the churches around them to pray for churches here and to support the work here as God blesses them.  We know that the missional attitude we saw in this group will impact America.  May God be glorified in it all.

Romans 10:13-15   Everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved.  How then, can they call on the one they have not believed in?  And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard?  And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?  And how can they preach unless they are sent?  As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”