My teammate William Diefenbach wrote this blog and I wanted to share. He couldn’t have put the importance of our supporters into better words. Thanks Will! and SUPER thanks to my supporters!
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I have been offshore for the last 3
months with a total of like 10 days at home… SO there has not been a
whole lot of change going down in my world.
So I think I am just writing for the sake of writing tonight, and with that being said let me just say this.
As this ship pitches slowly but surely and we make our steam for the
prospect ahead, I am overcome with an anxiousness and desire to leave
the ocean and begin my work. I had a dream of going to Haiti the other
night. It was a disturbing site to see. Crumbled buildings covering
broken bodies, covered in the tears and blood, casting fear of the
unknown into those that were unfortunate enough to be left behind. An
already broken, already poverty stricken country now sent further into
depths of disparity. Children sit on cracked side walks eating mud
cakes lacking all nutritional value, only to fill their empty bellies
with dirt and mud. Mothers are still in search of their children and
loved ones. I see the pain in their eyes, yet I know that at this moment only my
prayers go out to them. I desire to go, to bring peace, hope, and if
not any of the above, maybe just rest to their restless wandering.
I need your help. I need you to desire a change. Not just in Haiti
where the need is obvious, but in the Dominican, in Turkey, in
Cambodia, in Mozambique. I need you to see that they need you. If you
yourself are unwilling, or unable to go; if you yourself are not
willing or not able to get on that plane, that boat, that horse, that
bus, or whatever it takes, and go be with them physically, emotionally,
and spiritually, then I need you to support this cause. We are a
blessed nation, a blessed people and we take so much for granted. We
have a choice of not just what we will eat, but where “want” to eat. We
have the choice to buy our Ipods, our movies, our magazines, our
make-ups, and our clothes. These people don’t. They don’t know what
they will eat. They don’t even know that they will eat. Their clothes
are torn and in shambles. They might not even have a single pair of
shoes to protect their feet, yet I know that some of us have more shoes
than we know what to do with.
I need you to recognize that there are people in countries like china
that will work 18 hours a day in order to make your clothing, your
shoes, your toys, and at the end of that day not even be able to afford
what they have just made for you with their tired hands.
months with a total of like 10 days at home… SO there has not been a
whole lot of change going down in my world.
So I think I am just writing for the sake of writing tonight, and with that being said let me just say this.
As this ship pitches slowly but surely and we make our steam for the
prospect ahead, I am overcome with an anxiousness and desire to leave
the ocean and begin my work. I had a dream of going to Haiti the other
night. It was a disturbing site to see. Crumbled buildings covering
broken bodies, covered in the tears and blood, casting fear of the
unknown into those that were unfortunate enough to be left behind. An
already broken, already poverty stricken country now sent further into
depths of disparity. Children sit on cracked side walks eating mud
cakes lacking all nutritional value, only to fill their empty bellies
with dirt and mud. Mothers are still in search of their children and
loved ones. I see the pain in their eyes, yet I know that at this moment only my
prayers go out to them. I desire to go, to bring peace, hope, and if
not any of the above, maybe just rest to their restless wandering.
I need your help. I need you to desire a change. Not just in Haiti
where the need is obvious, but in the Dominican, in Turkey, in
Cambodia, in Mozambique. I need you to see that they need you. If you
yourself are unwilling, or unable to go; if you yourself are not
willing or not able to get on that plane, that boat, that horse, that
bus, or whatever it takes, and go be with them physically, emotionally,
and spiritually, then I need you to support this cause. We are a
blessed nation, a blessed people and we take so much for granted. We
have a choice of not just what we will eat, but where “want” to eat. We
have the choice to buy our Ipods, our movies, our magazines, our
make-ups, and our clothes. These people don’t. They don’t know what
they will eat. They don’t even know that they will eat. Their clothes
are torn and in shambles. They might not even have a single pair of
shoes to protect their feet, yet I know that some of us have more shoes
than we know what to do with.
I need you to recognize that there are people in countries like china
that will work 18 hours a day in order to make your clothing, your
shoes, your toys, and at the end of that day not even be able to afford
what they have just made for you with their tired hands.
Do you recognize the cost of our lifestyle?
Will you help me bring something back to those hands? Will you help
bring a small light into their world? Will you choose to love someone
you have never met? Will you choose to care?
bring a small light into their world? Will you choose to love someone
you have never met? Will you choose to care?
Because I do. I choose to walk with love for people in this world. I
choose to care about the people that I have never met, and I am ready
to go and give back to the world that has given so much to me. I want
to be part of the revolution in this world, and I will do it in the
name of the Lord Jesus. I will walk by faith, with hope in my heart and
a promise on my lips. I will feed those that I can, clothe the naked,
and care for the sick. I need you to want to as well. And if you do,
then you can help this race against time. Support me on this mission. I
need your prayers, I need your gifts, I need you.
Will you choose to help this world?
~William Diefenbach
