Ready to Watch God Work!

In just 3 short days, 32 of us will be making our wait to Merotte, Haiti - a small town about 40 miles north of the capital city of Port au Prince. We started planning this trip as we were saying our farewells to our Haitian brothers and sisters one year ago. To see it finally getting this close seems almost surreal in a way. I'm not sure it will feel real until our plane starts coming in for a landing on Monday morning in Port au Prince. Whether it feels real or not, doesn't really matter--it is happening so I better get ready for what God is going to do in the hearts and lives of His people--Haitians and Americans.

We established a relationship with Christ the King Lutheran Church in 2002, sending our first team of missionaries there to help build a school and to run a VBS for the local children. Since that time, this will be the 6th team from Lord of Life to continue our partnership there. In these years we have built an elementary school, built a preschool, run VBS for hundreds if not thousands of children, added a second story to the elementary school (roof will be completed by our March, 2013 team); seen thousands of patients in our medical clinic; and built a basketball court. This January team will continue the work of building relationships with the people of Merotte by running a VBS for the children, offering quality medical care in our clinic, coaching children and adults in the game of basketball, building a sand volleyball court, and coaching children and adults in the game of volleyball.

Another exciting thing for us is that we are taking 2 others with us from St. Matthew in Lee's Summit who will be learning how to lead this sort of mission effort in their own congregation. We are partnering them with St. Mark's in St. Marc, Haiti. We are praying that a long-term relationship is built and that God's people are encouraged by this new-formed relationship.

I will be blogging on a regular basis from Haiti and sending tweets as well. Feel free to follow me at @Hellyerlisa for all the latest as we travel and do our work.

Lisa :)