Thursday, November 17, 2011

I’ll be the carrier of LOVE and COMPASSION, I ‘ll be the carrier of LIGHT to the world I’ll the carrier of HOPE and SALVATION, I will GO shine your LI

Ok I know I have been awful about blogging but I promise I will get better!!! So if you didn’t know God has had my family and I on an incredible journey over the past few years and I think it has officially started to come full circle, for the first time in all our lives we understand why God had us walk through some stuff...

I say all of that to say I am officially the On-site director for the myLIFEspeaks campus here in Haiti! myLIFEspeaks was birthed in 2006 and has come a long way since then, want to know more check out the website, www.myLIFEspeaks.com . I moved here to Neply, a village in Leogane, on November 1 and I hit the ground running! I live in a rental facility were we will begin to birth the vision God has placed on our hearts… While here the next 4 months of my time will be spent getting this house up and running so we can take in children!!! That’s right we are starting an orphanage! My heart is to see typical and special needs children grow up together in a loving family environment. People with special needs have an extremely hard time here in Haiti, most of them are abandoned by their families or severely mistreated and I want to see that change! Haiti is full of compassionate loving people and I think if they had people to come alongside of them and walk through these misconceptions they just might change! I believe in my heart they can and I will spend the rest of my LIFE trying to get there!

This is all very new but also very excited. I walked into a building that had two beds and a dresser but a HOME full of potential! Leslie Watson, myLIFEspeaks’ community involvement director, moved in with me a week later so it has been nice to have a little company in the big ole house :). The past two weeks have been a time of making the house livable but it is starting to come together slowly but surely. Tuesday was an extremely exciting day for myLIFEspeaks, Haiti! Mike came and saw the house for the first time and he also brought 15 people to work on the house as well. It was a completely humbling experience to see those people labor and sweat over this house to help us get it ready! Over the course of two days they cleaned out the old church on our campus that will server as our community center where we will do feed programs, English classes and many other dreams that Leslie has in store. They also scrubbed the 5 downstairs bedrooms and 2 bathrooms which is where the children will soon live. They also cleaned out the kitchen that will prepare the food for the feeding program as well as the house. I don’t know that I could possible thank them enough for all their hard work.

Tommorrow we will have a few people come by and start working on an old warehouse that will serve as the therapy house/short term clinic. I long for the day to be able to have specialist and expert come and serve our children and ones of the community and tomorrow we are going to help make that a possibility! Then I get to see Missy and Dyllan next week when they come and bring a small team. Our hope for them is that they would be able to start building some benches for the children in the feeding program to use, now they are sitting in a very cramped courtyard at another location. But with the help of Leslie Watson, Grace Pointe and team members we are able to bring the program here to a huge community center where they can eat at a clean and orderly facility. Daily I am reminded of Gods provision. I am so excited to be be apart of something BIGGER than me! God I just want to do something so great it destine to fail without YOU!!!! Hope all of you will SEE the OPPORTUNITY, OWN the VISION and JOIN the MOVEMENT.

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE SAYING?

*KATIE*