Keyword Number 2

With just a few days to go until Team Haiti departs for Merotte, this is a great time to share with all of you our second keyword--RELATIONAL.

Our first keyword--INCARNATIONAL is the perfect lead in to what it takes to be relational. We first want to try to walk in the shoes of those we meet in Haiti, which then leads us to want to build relationships with them as well.

We aren't really going to Haiti to "help these people" as some may believe. If that is our attitude in serving, our minds might jump into a mode of believing a hierarchical system--that we are in some way better than those we serve. We may believe we're better because we have something to offer and that those we serve are just there to receive all our good deeds. When we serve with a relational perspective, our attitude has a slight twist. We want to spend our time in Haiti getting to know God's children who live in a different culture, speak a different language, and endure hardships we may never understand. We are going as an encouragement to God's church in Haiti. We are going to be encouraged in our faith journey as well.

Some relationships we make will be ones that last a lifetime and into eternity. When we do meet up with our Haitian brothers and sisters in heaven, I don't think we'll look upon each other as people we once served or who served us, but instead as fellow believers we were privileged to know along the way.

Bonswa,

Lisa :)