Missions and Hope

This past summer I had the amazing opportunity to go on a mission trip to Haiti with my church.    Both of my parents have been going for about six years now, so I thought that I was prepared for everything that came before me.  I was completely mistaken.  When you walk out of the airport, and hop into the back of a Tap-Tap, and ride down the streets of Haiti, you are overcome with a sense of hopelessness.  Trying to push that sense of hopelessness out of mind, I focused on the week’s worth of tasks ahead of me.  The organization my church works with, HOM (Haiti Outreach Ministries), gives us a project for the week.  We had two projects we were able to work on throughout the week.  We were going to be building a foundation for an extension of their Church at their Terre Noire (Port-Au-Prince) location (also where we were staying), and sanding/painting a high school.  We had enough people to split into two teams, the digging and painting teams.  I chose to be on the digging team, which was hard at first because I was the only girl who chose digging while all the other girls chose to paint.  But as the week went on it became so much fun getting to know some of the guys in my youth group at church I would otherwise have not known as well.  As the week went on we made a connection with the children and adults around us that on the last night we were there we had a cry night because of how much we were truly going to be missing this wonderful place and how we didn’t want to wait a whole year to come back.  With that being said, God has given me another amazing opportunity to go back!!  I am overwhelmed with joy and cannot stop thinking about going back to my favorite place with some of my favorite people in the entire world!!!  However, the cost to go is quite expensive, which is why I will be taking orders for keys and bracelets to help pay for my trip to Haiti in 2019!!! All of the profits from the sales go directly to pay for my trip.  I cannot wait to see what God has planned for me in Haiti and I cannot wait to go back!!

Thank you, Ansley