New video updates Florida Baptist Haiti relief efforts - Florida Baptist Witness

New video updates Florida Baptist Haiti relief efforts - Florida Baptist Witness

This video was shot while we were in Haiti...the team from Florida Baptist Convention came while we were there. They video taped the rice distribution and some of our team is in it!

praying still...

"The love of Christ compels us..." HIS love has gripped our lives in a way that we can not turn back from HIS call. Does it always make sense?...to the world usually not...but in His plan...Always. The kicker is we usually do not see the endpoint as we take each obedient step...that is where the faith comes in. He gives us faith to continue on. We do not have faith on our own it is a gift! We must trust HIM because He is the only ONE who knows the plan, the path and the endpoint. And again...His love compels us...it grips us...it holds us...it clings to us...it has us entangled in it. It is the only way to really live! Praise God it has nothing to do with us...only HIM and His consuming love! Some may say...Why Haiti? I don't know why Haiti and not some other place and I have to say "His love compels me..." and I have no choice but to follow the voice!
Please continue to pray for provisions to be made for food at El Shaddai. God has a plan! We will trust in HIM!

Good morning world! We have an uregnt prayer request. Doug just talked to Elizabeth Clackler. Elizabeth is the sweet lady who spends the majority of her time at El Shaddai Childrens Home and helps out Marie Prinvil. Elizabeth told Doug that food is needed at the childrens home in a bad way and the warhouse where they usually get the food is empty. Please pray for God to open a door and let the food flood into El Shaddai. Doug and Etzer (Haitian born doctor and raised there but lives in Florida and is pastor of the Haitain church in Vero Beach) were the food runners on our recent trip. They were able to drive across the border into the Dom.Rep. and get rice, beans, salted herring, pasta, flour, etc. from a market. God opened the door that morning as they left early early and were back by noon with "manna from heaven". God opened the border once again and they did not even have to stop for anything at the gates and checkpoints! PLEASE PRAY THAT GOD WILL OPEN THE DOOR AGAIN AND WE WILL WALK THROUGH IT WITH FOOD TO MEET THE NEEDS OF EL SHADDAI!!! I do not know how this story will unfold but I do trust in the ONE who knows the entire blueprint and We are trusting HIM! I am praising HIM right now for how He will make it all come to pass!

I just looked at a few pics of Haiti and it brought back a flood of memories...I hope I will be able to relay thoughts and feelings of our trips there. I want you all to know how big God is and how all comsuming God is. Often we do not recoginize the hand of God because we are way too busy with stuff...I dare you...make a conscience effort to look for God's mighty hand tomorrow...trust me...He is there! Look for His hand...Listen to His voice and follow it! Time after time we saw God's hand on our recent trip...There was a lady who was singing to the top of her lungs with her arms stretched upward and crying as she walked the streets of distruction in Port-a-Prince...God knew her heart and I pray she allowed Him to meet her deepest need. There was a lady who has a burn on her leg that needed to be throughly cleans, that means all of the dead skin had to removed with no pain killer or skin deadening meds. I held her hand and told her to sing...she smiled and began to sing "Jesus is All the World to Me"...even through painful grimmaces she sang and hummed the song. I challenge you to look up the song and read the words. Can we sing that song in the middle of our pain or are we too focused on stuff that we can't hear the voice of God? Nite!

One the passions of our family is the country and people of Haiti. Since 2005 with Doug's first trip there this country has become very close to our hearts. We have formed many friendships and consider these friends family.
Haiti has for a long time been a country with great need. The earthquake a few weeks ago took it to new levels of dispair. We have a chance to join with them to recover and help rebuild their country. The believers in Haiti love Jesus in ways we in the USA can't even understand. I stood in awe a few weeks ago as I watch them praise Jesus for His goodness knowing that many of these people had just lost everything. Their prayer and desire is not for more stuff, but that the joy of their salvation will increase. Someone asked Doug, "Why Haiti"? He said,"When God puts a love in your heart you can't do anything else". What love has God placed in your Heart? What is your passion? As believers in Jesus our greatest love and passion must be Him. If that is true of you than you can't do anything else but live for Him.

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