50 for 50

           There is a time for patience and a time for pushing ahead.  Melissa and I are feeling an urgency to get our family to Haiti - even the kids are feeling it. 

The teaching positions at Cowman School just outside of Cap Haitien, Haiti, today stand wide open and unfilled - and have been all this semester.  Currently at Cowman, the principal is doubling as kindergarten teacher and has therefore necessarily limited class to three days a week.  Melissa is anxious to step in to the teacher role and allow the principal to get back to her administrative focus. 

 

At the other end of the school, the junior and senior high students that I will be working with are unsupervised much of the day.  As they work on their online courses, they have no regular teacher available to crack the whip, answer questions, lead Bible class or teach English.  Trying to teach from a distance this semester has been incredibly frustrating to me and it simply falls far short of the classroom ideal.

 

Meanwhile, over at Emmaus Biblical Seminary,  demand for English classes and tutoring exceeds what current staff can offer.  English skills give the students - Haiti's future pastors - access to oodles of resources that have never been (and never will be) translated into Creole. AND, those graduates who are proficient in English are finding opportunities to use their skills for income as freelance translators - in  a country where few pastors receive any sort of compensation from the churches they serve.

 

Those are the opportunities we KNOW we have missed out on this semester and will continue to miss out during this second semester if we cannot get to Haiti in January. Nobody knows what other opportunities and divine appointments might be missed in 2013.

 

We are entirely dependent on individuals (mostly) and churches (some) who will partner with us through monthly support. 

 

We've done the math ... and 50 more pledges of $50 a month each will put us in a place where we can get started. (Of course, 25 at $100 would work too!)

 

Will you pray about this ministry opportunity and the possibility of joining with us as one of those 50?

 

We have a website that makes it easy to start the process:  grossesinhaiti.com.  If you fill out the online form there, you will soon hear back from One Mission Society about the next steps in making our partnership a reality.

 

I am sure you are aware of how much the Haitian people have suffered, especially in recent years.  There is hunger, ignorance, corruption and death at every turn.  And so many who don't know Jesus.  But God has laid Haiti on our hearts and we desire nothing so much as to be there - as the hands and feet of Jesus.