August 3-9, 2009

Pictures from our trip to Haiti.

So I, Tim, was asked to write a testimony about my experience in Haiti for a newsletter, so I wanted to share it with you as well:

“Growing up in California, I have taken about a dozen week-long mission trips to Baja Mexico. I’ll always remember being so amazed to see the Mexican people living in absolute dire circumstances, yet seemingly happy and content to be alive. So, going to Haiti for the first time, Baja was really the only place I could compare it to in my mind. But as soon as I stepped off the plane in Port-au-Prince, I knew this was going to be different. As we drove our busload down the crowded, yet seemingly lawless highway, I admittedly was introduced to utter desperation.

Desperation: that is really the only word I can think of to describe Haiti, according to my experience this past August. Throughout the week, as we interacted with the children and adults in the village of Guitton, their faces said something very different from the joyful faces I’ve seen in Mexico. I soon learned that there are no jobs for the majority of the population of Haiti; since there are no jobs, there is no money to buy food or clean drinking water. This just doesn’t make any sense to me. Here I live, in a country with unlimited amounts of resources with more of anything that anyone truly needs; yet, I can hop on a plane in Miami, and 2 hours later, arrive in a land at the polar opposite. Something needs to change.

My heart has broken for the beloved people of Haiti. I saw children of God who have been oppressed by corrupt governments, infertile land, and the grasp of Satan for the past two-hundred years. But something deep inside me believes that God is not finished with Haiti. I believe He wants to set His people free, both physically and spiritually. And that has ignited a spark deep within me. I don’t believe it to be coincidental to have crossed paths with Frank and Sundouloi Ministries. God has allowed me to catch the vision for Haiti and I hope to play a small part in it, Lord willing. Greater things are yet to come for Haiti.”