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| The marketplace on La Gonave, Haiti. |
Today was a day of running some unusual errands for my upcoming mission trip to Haiti. I picked up packages of live typhoid vaccine and malaria prevention medicine. Not your everyday trip to the pharmacy! As the team and I prepare, we've asked the missionaries who live there if there is anything they'd like us to bring. One small request is for chocolate chips. Personally, I often take for granted the fact that I can so easily stop by the grocery store or pharmacy or a multitude of other places to pick things up. Almost any time I feel like it I can pick up some chocolate chips and bake some cookies.
I'm going to Haiti for a mere 8 days. There are people who have dedicated months and years to serving in Haiti. They've sacrificed and given so much. It really puts things into perspective for me. Right now there are many power outages in my area. When our electricity goes out, it seems like such a major inconvenience, but there are many in the world who don't have electricity or clean water or even a roof over their heads.
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| This woman welcomed a baby who was abandoned into her small home. |
Yet in the midst of the poverty in Haiti, there is evidence of hope. In this photo you see a woman who has hardly anything, but she has a love for God and is sharing that with others. She lives in one of the poorest sections on La Gonave, yet she has opened her small one room home to others with less than her. She reminds me of the woman that Jesus noted in Luke 21 who "out of her poverty put in all she had to live on". She has true riches. May you and I go after true riches, the kind that last.
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