Justice and Mercy International

Haiti Mission Trip! (March 31 – April 5)

The country of Haiti continues to lie in the ruins of the earthquake that, in seconds, took the lives of a quarter million people. http://justiceandmercy.org/serving/haiti)

As predicted, many of the social service agencies that rushed in to help have since moved on to other catastrophes and fresher headlines.  The political corruption and superstition that have plagued the country for decades tends to suck the hope out of its people as well as the less committed of her “good Samaritans.”

The best hope for Haiti rests with her children!  JMI will link arms this year with The Joseph School project and the Children of Hope Orphanage and Hospice.  Both of these organizations share our belief that children who are undergirded with love, resources, a superior education, a model of integrity and a foundation of faith in Christ, represent the best opportunity to lead Haiti from despair to a viable, more prosperous society.

Our goals for this mission are as follow:

1. Every school age child will memorize and internalize Ps. 23 through the coordinated teaching of English and a VBS program oriented to that theme
2. Every child will be interviewed for inclusion in a JMI sponsorship program modeled after the one we’ve used successfully in Moldova

In addition to these objectives, and dependent largely on the skill levels represented by our team, we may work on constructing a home for an impoverished family and providing some medical care within the community.

Haiti represents an excellent opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a work that can change the country.  The price tag on this trip ($1700) is less than all of our other international mission trips.

Haitians are the poor in spirit.  They are the meek.  Theirs are the desolate and forgotten children of the Savior who promises never leave to them nor forsake them.  And we.…you and I….we are either the good Samaritans who rescue the beaten down, deliver them to a place of healing and safety and promise to return to cover all their additional needs….or we are not.

There is a pathway around Haiti, worn down by people who choose to look the other way.  If you have the eyes to see, please contact steve@justiceandmercy.org.

Posted by Alex Derry | On: Jan 26 2012