Serendiptious - "come upon or found by accident"

Our team is made up of a variety of goers: some first-timers, some who have been there a few times, and one who will be on his 40th trip!

This will be my 5th trip.  My prayer, as it has been each trip,  is for God to use me to be a light in a dark and desperate place.  I pray that the people I meet don't see me, instead they feel the love of their Creator.  A serendipitous discovery has happened each time I've been in Haiti.  God has used the Haitian people to shine a light into dark areas of my heart: materialism and control.  These things distract me from His Purposes and love.  The bonds of fear and materialism fade away as I witness the passionate faith of the Haitian people as they worship our Good Father.  It is amazing to hear Him honored, praised and adored from those who have experienced abandonment, hunger, death, and destruction.  Humbling and inspiring.

My seven year old daughter asked me tonight, "Why doesn't God just fix Haiti?"  God is fixing Haiti and He is using us to do it!  What I will share with her later, because I didn't think of it then, is that not only is God using us to fix Haiti, God is using Haiti to fix me!  I just LOVE how He works.  He is so GOOD!

Please join me in praying that God's love will be revealed in a new way in Haiti -  to the people we meet and for those on our team, whether it's their 1st time or their 40th!

-Karen Moen