Haiti – Our Response

The earthquake in Haiti has been heartbreaking especially with more recent news of aftershocks after the initial disaster. The World Race sent teams to Haiti for the first time early last year and a lot of my brothers and sisters have spent the last week eager to hear news of their Haitian family and friends. The Adventures in Missions community has been responding over the past week with planning, prayer and mobilization. Today and tomorrow teams will be flying down to the Dominican Republic with plans to assess the situation, bring food, water and medical supplies as well as minister to the people at the border. The group of six World Race Alumni that are going down are Spirit-led and captivated by the love of the Father so intensely that they are eager to put their hands on the broken and the hurting. We are not all called to go in this way, but they are now. They will come home changed by what their eyes have seen and what their ears have heard. They will come home telling the stories of the people there and they will come home with an even more intense desire to see God’s face in it all. I am proud to be part of a community that rushes to the broken and hurting people of the world. I am proud to be supporting those that can physically go and I am proud to be one that supports the efforts of the Kingdom in being light and salt in the desolation and destruction. This is what I am doing and I invite you to join me:

PRAY and believe in the power of prayer. For Haiti, the relief efforts and for God to move in powerful ways.

Give. You can through this website set up by AIM:

1. Go to this direct link to give: https://www.adventures.org/give/donate.asp?giveto=worldrace&desc=&tuid=1370381 (this is also accessible by going to www.theworldrace.org and clicking on the “Donate” tab on the homepage. Hit the button that says, “click here to give!”)  
2. Once
   you’re on this page, change the program on the drop-down menu to a
   “World Race Project.” A new box will appear, for a description of the
   project. Please have supporters put WR HAITI as the name of the
   Project.
   

CONTINUE the vigilance. Even after the media has moved on. Even after its not in our face every day. Remember. One way to do that is following the blogs of the WR alumni that is going. People like Ashely Musick, Sara Choe, Sarah Diederick, Jacob Hoyer, Stephanie Tyrna and  Aaron Bruner.

 

Adventures in Missions is planning three waves of response. Maybe you’re hooked. Maybe your DNA is like ours in figuring out a way to get there or support those that are going. Maybe God is calling you to sacrifice your time and comfort for something bigger than yourself.