Love Your Neighbor...

Love your neighbor as yourself...this is a verse that sticks out to me when people ask why I go to Haiti so much.  What country(s) outside the US are physically close enough to be our neighbor?  If the US is one house, Haiti would be across the street in the same neighborhood if you ask me.  I praise God for opening up a door for TouchGlobal to partner with local Haitians and ministries to further His Kingdom work in this country!  Check out the photos and captions below for how God is moving! 

This is Claudia who has my heart! My nickname for her is Whoopi as she has the personality of the comedian Whoopi Goldberg, got some sass to her, and lights up the world with her smile!  She lives in the pink shelter in the background at OLTCH's (Operation Love the Children of Haiti) orphanage. She is one of 40-50 kids who live here and one of the joys of going there is to give her as much undivided attention as possible! 

This is Jasmine who runs OLTCH and we are on their new property for the ground breaking ceremony. Since the earthquake they have resided on a temporary piece of land with temporary shelters.  We are grateful to minister to the kids and staff at OLTCH and excited to partner with them for the building project on this property.

This is Maxo, one of the community leaders God led us to after the earthquake.  We were able to pray with him for the property behind him where there will be building a community school!  This will be a more permanent structure than the one shown below and a place for students to learn about God, agriculture, math, language, science, etc! 

Maxo's current location and building for his school.  Thank you to the TG teams that help construct a place of learning and growth for the kids in this community!

Intern 2012 Chelsey has built a relationship with an orphanage called New Horizons.  She is an education major and is spending time teaching the kids, playing with them, and showing them the love of Christ!  Praise God for calling Chelsey to Haiti!

Matt is serving with TG this summer in Haiti and working at Haiti Health Ministries (pictured).  Matt is a medical student and is able to experience medicine in Haiti.  HHM is one of the few clinics in our community and starts each morning with devotions with their patients.  Praise God for their desire to meet the needs of the whole person!

 

The EFCA crew! pictured left to right: front row: Chelsea, Jane (intern mentor 2012 for Chelsey), Ronnie, and Mario (a missionary from the Columbian Free Church); back row: Ashlee who is married to Claudy (also back row), beside Ashlee is Christine who is a law student working with OLTCH on the international adoptions of their children (Christine also served with TG from June 2010 to June 2011) and Matt! Praise God for calling each person to serve Him in Haiti!