It has been about two months since I have written. I had
fully intended to write a summary of my last month long trip to Haiti, but to
be very honest; I didn’t know what to say. The month of March was very possibly
the hardest month of my life, and April and May haven’t proven much easier. But
God is good and I am praying there is light on the horizon, and I am excited to
share it with you.
I went to Haiti in March with two agendas: first, to invest
in my Darling’s and my relationship for about 3 weeks, and second, to assist in
facilitating mission teams with the Palau Association for the last week.
The short story is that I arrived in Haiti with the exciting
prospect of spending 3 weeks with my love, and very quickly found out that he
no longer had feelings for me. We tried to work through anything possible that
would “bring his feelings for me back” but to no avail. We ended up breaking up
a few weeks after I returned to the States.
That being said, I was (and still am) quite an emotional
wreck. I still don’t know how I went on to help facilitate mission teams for 10
days right after that, but our God is good, and He gives strength to the weak.
In those last 10 days of my time in Haiti, God was at work
doing many exciting things behind the scenes in my life. Not only were there
many people saved through the time the teams spent serving, and the Festival,
but He has opened up 2 very exciting doors for me.
The first is that I have the blessing of going to Tanzania
two times this summer. I will be working with the Palau Association as Liz
Eischen’s assistant. She is an amazing woman and we will have the joy of
coordinating the mission teams together again before a large Festival in
August.
The second life changing opportunity that God is giving me
is to move to Haiti. Yes, that’s right. Move to Haiti. Live, work, love and
have a life … in Haiti. I am beyond excited. It still doesn’t seem quite real.
If all goes well, I will be moving the first week of September to a city called
Croix-des-bouquets with an organization called the Global Orphan Project (GOP).
I will be their Mission team Manager/Host. GOP is an incredible organization
that has orphan villages all over the world and something like 16 orphan
villages in Haiti alone. (To learn more about GOP go to theglobalorphanproject.org) They also have a hotel that hosts about one mission
team a week all year round. I will l live in the hotel and serve each team as
they come in. I can’t even begin to explain all of the intricacies of this
position that fit the mold of what God has been doing in my heart over the last
2 years.
As excited as I am about moving to Haiti, I know I will miss
many things about life here. My family and dear friends, Junior high group at
Solid Rock, my incredible roomates with my amazing little apartment, and the
best job I’ve ever had. But it is so worth the sacrifices to be walking in the
midst of God’s will and story for my life.
The next few months hold the promises of many plane rides,
new culture, adventures and lots of fundraising. And I look forward to each new
thing, challenges included, as a chance to rejoice in the good things that our
God does. I am so blessed to be His child. That in the midst of the hardest,
most painful parts of life, he never leaves us, and He fills us with His joy
and new prospects, if only we listen to Him. I am learning. J
