December 27, 2012

Thursday next week will be our first full day on the Central Plateau in Haiti.  We'll be staying at the campus of HAFF (Haitian American Friendship Foundation) and here are some of the things our mission team of 10 teenagers, 2 college students and 3 adults will be doing:

•Various work projects at HAFF (cleaning storage rooms, painting, organizing,  

    delivering chalkboards for rural schools, etc.)

•Assisting with conversational English classes and chapels at the HAFF secondary school

•Leading small group Bible Studies with Haitian youth; Giving testimonies to groups

•Building relationships with Haitian youth and children through sports outreach:

    soccer, whiffle ball, basketball, frisbees, etc.

•Assisting in the Bonn Fanm class (Godly Women class) and Young Leaders group

•Home visitations to encourage and pray with people in their huts or courtyards

•Visiting other local missions, orphanages, markets, and cultural sites

•Saturday all day: pastors’ and church leaders’ conference

•Sunday: attend worship at a nearby Haitian church

•Evenings: team meetings on the dorm porch

Please pray for us as we finish our preparations for our January 1 departure!

Eric Hausler, Pastor

Why do we send out mission teams from Redeemer?

• For the local church to participate directly in the Great Commission (Matthew 28:18-20; John 20:21).  Pray that God gives us many opportunities to be faithful witnesses.

• To raise up future career missionaries from this present generation (Proverbs 22:6, Luke 10:2).  May the Lord burden the hearts of our youth to have a burden for foreign missions and perhaps serve the Lord overseas one day.

• To assist missionaries and church leaders overseas in reaching out to their community (Galatians 6:2).  Pray that we will be a blessing and encouragement to the staff at HAFF.

• To learn first-hand that we and Christians all over the world are all part of the body of Christ (John 17:23; 1 Corinthians 12:12).  May we have teachable hearts.

• To increase our love for people of other cultures and our vision for reaching them (Luke 10:27; Matthew 9:36,37).  Pray that the Lord gives us a burden and love for the Haitian people.

• Because we’ve been so blessed, and God calls us to be a blessing to the world. (Genesis 12:2-3).  O Lord, help us to be a channel of your mercy!

• To plant seeds of faith that will last forever (John 15:16).  May the Word of the Lord bear fruit.