Hello everyone, I just wanted to take a few minutes and comment on a couple of events that I experienced this week. First, the blessings:
I was blessed to go to the Northwest Haiti Christian Mission warehouse in Zionsville on Wednesday to help load a couple of containers full of food bound for Haiti. In a little under 6 hours, myself and four other volunteers were able to load 2 shipping containers with enough packaged rice meals[1] to provide meals for over 450,000 people in Haiti! Not only is it wonderful and amazing to see so much food going to people in desperate need, but the fact that all of this food was purchased by donation, packaged with love by people young and old throughout the country, and is going to those who need it most! What a wonderful blessing it was for me to be just a small part of serving so many!
Also this week, I was blessed to help sew diapers for the NWHCM birthing center with a great group of people here at FCC. For over 10 years, a dedicated and ever growing group of volunteers has met several times a year to sew re-useable cloth diapers that we send down for the mission to use, and give out to new mothers at the birthing center. This week, in four days, our group was able to sew 345 diapers, and have a lot in various stages, ready to go for the next sewing event, scheduled for April. Not only do a lot of wonderful people volunteer to sew these diapers, but also it is funded completely through donations, a lot of which they get through their “Dimes for Diapers” campaign, where people donate their spare change to help provide diapers for children in Haiti. Just another example of small things that we can do every day, seemingly insignificant things, which can grow to have great results throughout the Kingdom!
Finally, on a sadder note, I learned this week of a friend of mine is struggling with some very serious family issues. While I don’t want to elaborate and get into details, just suffice to say that their family is facing great turmoil, and is desperately in need of prayer. My heart goes out to her and her entire family and I pray that God will grant them strength and peace through these troubling times.
God is everywhere, in all things, at all times. Sometimes His will is easy to see, sometimes it is incredibly difficult ( if not impossible). We just need to be strong and carry on in faith that all things can be and are used by Him for his purpose. It doesn’t make our pain any easier, our grief any less, but it does offer hope for tomorrow.
I would like to ask for prayers for my friend, and I pray that you all will continue to seek ways, big and small, to serve your fellow man and woman, and the Kingdom of God!
God Bless you all!
Justin
[1] For more information on this type of program, please visit the “Kids Against hunger” website at http://www.kidsagainsthunger.org/ or the “Feed My Starving Children” website at http://www.fmsc.org/.
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