Why it is Important to Serve!

The next few weeks my blog will be about my Mission Trip to Haiti.  Since the early eighties, my father has helped to establish a mission in Haiti - the poorest country in the western hemisphere.  Although I've always been intrigued by the mission work that my father does in Haiti and elsewhere, it wasn't until a year ago that I made my first trip to the impoverished country.  I caught the fever.

The mission organization I serve with is called The Lazarus Project.  It's a wonderful grass-roots mission "owned and operated" by churches and the passionate people within.  It has no affiliation with a super charity, like Red Cross, or a national church body.  I think that's what I love about it.  You can really feel attached and impactful when working with the other people who have felt ownership of this effort.

In my first trip down there, I went with the expectation that I would be "ministering" to the people of Haiti.  I thought I would go there and in some way make their lives better.  Sure, I did some useful projects making a tiny dent in the huge pile of plight.  However, I quickly realized that it was I who was being "ministered" to.  It was my life that was being touched by the people of Haiti.  I was the one who left there significantly different with a perspective on life that is forever changed.

Life is good!  Real Good!  Sometimes we get things out of perspective.