Matt's Blog

We started the day off going to church. The people in the worship service were very enthusiastic about worshiping God. What really impressed me was when the pastor asked if there were any visitors there and told them to stand. There were three that stood up and he asked them what they names were, where they were from, and if they knew Jesus as their personal savior. WOW! Why don't we do that? That is what I call taking care of business.

After church we went to Port-au-Prince. What a devastated area. There was trash all in the streeets, buildings tore down from the earthquake last year, and a lot of broken hearts. I realized that the government was not going to ever do anything about it when we pulled up to the capitol building. The earthquake was last January, and the palace, which is their White House, was still in shambles.

We then came back to the compound and reloaded the truck and went to another church to deliver food. When we got there, the generator that feeds the church electricity was broke down so they were having their service in the dark. We gave them 14 boxes of Kids Against Hunger food and two bags of beans. The pastor asked if we had anyone that could speak some words of encouragement, and the other team members volunteered me. So I spoke about keeping Jesus as their savior and that all their problems are temprary. I told them to hold onto God and that we all ened to try to be better Christians for Him.
After this we came back and started packing for our trip back home. What a week it has been. We are all a blessed bunch. To have a God that not only sent His Son to die for us, but He placed us all in a free country where we do not have to scrounge around for food, we can take a bath whenver we want, we can worship freely, and I could go on and on. The simple fact is that god loves us all equally. None of us are better then the next, and it's hard to believe but these very same people who have all these troubles, will be side by side with us "when we all get to Heaven."