Wow, what an awesome day at Forest Park Carthage yesterday! We had a ton of new faces at both of our services. We also got a ton of people signed up for LifeGroups! Exciting things are happening here in Carthage!
Monday is for Missions…
Keep praying for Haiti. FP has had over 60 people interested in going on relief trips to Haiti. We have raised well over $1000 to go to Haiti.
FP has a group in Kenya this week. Pray for them as they minister in His name at the Mattaw Children’s Village
We just had a group get back from Fort Worth, TX yesterday that were working in the inner city with a church downtown.
Too good of a post to pass up on this Monday afternoon…Enjoy! This is from Matt Wilkie’s blog this week. Powerful!!
A few months ago, I got my own Haitian mudpie. It sits on my desk. This gift from our Haiti director,Kevin Rose, has reminded me to pray for the poorest people in the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
On Tuesday, like every other “normal” day in Haiti, people in the poorest areas of the country were eating these for lunch. Some ate them for breakfast that morning and dinner the night before as well. They’re made of dried yellow dirt, vegetable oil and salt.
I’m going to type that again…they’re made of dried yellow dirt, vegetable oil and salt. They’re real mudpies. People eat them.
Then an earthquake hit.
I’m still processing things…but I for now, I wanted to mention the mudpies.
I have some great friends at Student Life that I went to seminary with and have always been a HUGE fan of SL Camps!! @KStratt got an email from SL this afternoon sharing this video.
The email says this:
In November 2008, a Student Life team went to Haiti to spend time with the people and produce a film on the work of Compassion International in Haiti.
We hope this video will be useful in your time with students as you pray for the people in Haiti.
Compassion has close to 50,000 Haitian children in their projects in what is the poorest country in our hemisphere with over 50% of the 9 million people living on less than $1 a day. Compassion International works in Haiti to relaese children from spiritual, economic, social, and physical poverty.
But now more than ever, they need your prayers and support after this devastating earthquake. We encourage you to have your students praying for this country this week and giving to Compassions’s Disaster Relief Fund. This fund allows their staff to provide food, clean water, temporary shelter, basic sanitation and medical attention to children and families in need.
I have a good friend from high school that is married to a Trooper in Alaska…the great white north of Alaska! You think it is cold here in the Ozarks last week! They have to scrape ice off their storm door…on the inside…to get in and out of their front door!
I thought this was really cool what their church did for Christmas to serve people who are less fortunate! Awesome stuff! Check out her blog as well. She doesn’t post too much because the internet is really slow up there, but each post is pretty interesting!
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