Three Days and Then

Three long full days ahead and then our team leaves for Haiti. Counting Rhonda and me, last year we took eleven great people to minister at Mission of Hope. This year our group has doubled. Excellent growth I'd say. When you stop and think about it, for a church that seemed to always throw money at missions our teams are growing from last years initiative. To me that spells success but more importantly it spells excitement and enthusiasm to take the message of the gospel ourselves into the world. From every indication I see that temperatures will be 10 degrees cooler than last year. You might be saying, "Big Deal." When you consider last year we left after a snow storm and when we got off the plane in Port-au-Prince the temp was 98 degrees, I'll take 10 degrees cooler.

There is so much excitement about the trip. Some are veterans and others are newbee's. Of course we have no idea yet what we will actually do but we know it will be life changing. Mission of Hope is in the process of building a new warehouse for Convoy of Hope. That's right people - Convoy of Hope distributes (along with two other relief groups) their resources and donations out of Mission of Hope. This speaks volumes to me of the reputation of Mission of Hope. In addition Mission of Hope is in the process of building homes for the people of Haiti. This is huge. So off we go into the Wild Blue Yonder to do the work that God has called us to do - serve others, make disciples, share the Love of Christ. The orphans, the orphans, the orphans - can't wait.