Jennie's First Trip to Haiti

You read that right I am going to Haiti! I am privileged to have the opportunity to go on a mission trip to Port-au-Prince with an amazing organization – Heartline Ministries - Haiti. I will be going from July 27^th to August 2^nd and I could not be more excited. My heart for Haiti grows daily as we await the progress of our adoption and I know the opportunity to go and love on the people their and experience this new world will be life changing for me and prayerfully for the people of Haiti as well.

The ultimate goal of this trip will be to help develop long-term relationships with those we serve in order to see the Gospel advanced in Haiti. This team will consist of women only (5 from the church I attend and 17 from across the USA). One of the primary ways we will be serving is through the Women’s Program in which there are 150 Haitian women enrolled in one of several educational programs – sewing, cooking, beading, and literacy. We will be serving in various capacities depending on the current needs: there may be a large scale project such as moving into a new facility or helping to build the new Maternity Center or we will be busy doing smaller projects. We will also be serving food that some of us packed through Feed The Hunger ministry and even providing shoes and washing feet through Samaritans Feet ministry. Primarily they asked that if we wanted to go we simply needed to have a flexible attitude and a heart for loving the women of this program and the people of Haiti through the gospel!

I am writing to ask for your prayers as we prepare to embark on this adventure and to pray for me (us) as we go. Pray that the Holy Spirit would already begin working in the hearts of the people that we will encounter, allowing them to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that they may be filled with all the fullness of God (Ephesians 3:14-21). Pray that God would prepare all of us for what He will do during our trip. Your prayers are greatly needed before, during and after so thank you! 

Thank you for sharing in this journey with me, with our family and with the people of Haiti.