Bohoc, Haiti

From April 1^st (Fri) through April 7^th (Thur), 11 people from newhope church in Durham, NC, will, through The 410 Bridge, be visiting Bohoc, Haiti, a rural mountainous village, located a good many miles north of Port au Prince.

While there are many ways to engage in mission, it has been our continuing intention as the newhope community to pursue international missions activity by partnering with very discrete and specific communities as they seek to follow Christ and to do for themselves that which they feel must be done to create flourishing communities devoted to the Lordship of Jesus Christ.  The provision of disaster relief aid or development resources that are not community based (meaning...initiated, driven, AND managed by the community) will fail—PERIOD.  History teaches that this is the case.  To be good stewards of that which God has given us—time, talents, gifts, financial resources, etc.—it appears to me to be most God-honoring when what we give is given in the context of a committed relationship, where we come alongside our brothers and sisters in a specific place as they work together, under community leadership, to follow Christ and to develop their community from within through their own concerted efforts.

It is with all this in mind, that we will be heading to Bohoc early tomorrow morning.

The team from newhope is comprised of the following individuals:

Allison Adler

Dave Brown (Team Father)

Robert Caylor

Bill Hailey

Leah MacMillan

Ramsay MacMillan

Ethan Mikhail

Tamar Mikhail

Nick Statires

Collan Tyler

Joslyn Wiley

We as a team (and as individuals) are in great need of your prayers during and after this trip.  Please take us before the Father as you talk with Him today and throughout the next week.  Thank you!

Daver

P.S.  This will, most likely, be my last blog post until I return from Haiti.  Until then…God’s peace to all'y'all.  :o)