Just returned home from an amazing time with most of the team recalling the details of each day by recording them on a long sheet of paper which became our diary timeline. There was much laughter and reminiscing of so many amazing details that we all experienced.
Time was spent in sharing our struggle to continue on with "life" here in the abundance of America while many of our hearts were still 'back in Haiti'. The struggle of knowing all that we have while our friends and brothers and sisters in Christ are praying for rain to sustain their crops that they may have food to eat and food to sell to obtain all that they need to survive...literally.
Each of us chose two areas that we want to purposefully 'work on' as we live out life following Jesus now that we've had this experience with Lemuel. Some want to work on simplifying their lives that family become a priority for their time again, some chose spending more time in the Word and our youngest member wanted to never stop being grateful for what he has knowing that so many have so much less. We agreed to hold each other accountable, we wrote it down on a large board to be displayed and we're sending down a copy to Lemuel asking them to hold us accountable as well.
We prayed to thank God for all that He is and we prayed again for each other and later we prayed a third time for Lemuel Ministries, for rain, for survival, for our role in helping, for God's will to be done and that He be glorified.
It's the Christmas season; a time of abundance, gift giving, time with family, food, and hopefully...faith. Faith in the One who created us, in the One who came to save us and the One who is calling us to follow Him. We desire to follow Him daily and to follow Him intentionally to wherever He leads and we're praying we be allowed the priviledge to follow Him back.....to Haiti.
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