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Donate

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A big thank-you goes out to Loving Orphans Global for letting me partner with them!! If you would like to donate to my work in the beautiful land of Haiti you can go to http://www.lovingorphansglobal.org/donate/ or simply text the words  ellen.log@mogiv.com with the message being the dollar amount. It is simple, secure, and tax-deductable. Thank-you to everyone who is helping Acts 26:18 become possible. I will be in Haiti tomorrow!! Excited to see what all the Lord has in store. Praying for guidance, clarity, and the open doors to make disciples! God is good. His will be done.  

This is life

Pretend you are a member of a Haitian family. Mom, dad, grandparent or aunt or fourth cousin twice removed, and a couple children in the same home. Between 70 and 80 percent of Haiti is unemployed so one of those people is bringing home an income. Minimum wage in Haiti is about $3 a day . Assuming you work every single day, you bring home about $90 a month. You are a squatter, living where you can, moving when you can’t anymore.  Because of deforestation there is little wood available to build your home. You need to scrounge for other supplies.  You could rent an apartment, but the average price for a one bedroom apartment outside the city is $425 a month. Assuming you spent nothing to build your house and you spend nothing to maintain it then you could choose to buy utilities. Electricity (if it’s available in your town), running water (which you have to have a well and pump for), and garbage services (only available in big cities), is $20 a month. You have to feed yours

James 1:27

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Roughly 480,000 of them in Haiti alone They keep me awake at night I think about what their names are, where they sleep, if they will be a dancers or soccer players or preachers…. I think about the emotionally past they will bring with them and if they will eat their vegetables and if they will like me. I pray about them and cry over them. James 1:27 Pure and faultless religion is this; to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep yourself from being polluted by the world. I arrived in Haiti on August 26 th with this verse pounding in my head. Not knowing how exactly I would play a part in this role that God has asked of us, but I began praying. And praying. And praying. Not long after arriving in Haiti I knew what had to be done.   I am going to build a home. I began searching for land in an area where the children could play and go to school and be surrounded with love.   Every day I drove by a piece of land and knew it was the perfect

Starting this Journey

Well I am in Haiti! Been here about 5 days now and getting a little settled. Went to the grocery store to get food. 50 dollars of food in the states was about 200 dollars here!.... needless to say I will be doing all my shopping in the markets now! I went shopping for a mattress…. down a narrow sketchy alley passed by many rooms with crooked tin doors to be lead to rows and rows of matresses. Got my water tank filled up on my roof on the second day by a man climbing up the side of my house. It is pretty much a steady drip but it’s better than nothing! It is about 120 degrees in my house! Thank the Lord for fans!! I have gotten to go to the orphanage a few times that I stayed at during my last visit to see all the children. I missed them so much! The family I am staying with is very nice. Two toddlers live here and they are still not sure why I am in their house! We do not have electricity here but I bought a generator so I could cook a little bit on a mini bur

Haiti

Haiti: Where the sun never blinks, the clock never ticks, and the love never ends. This is where my life will be residing for the next... who knows how long. I will begin teaching secondary English at one of the local high schools. I will begin helping to feed and nurture 30 beautiful children at an orphange. And I will begin pouring my heart into young teenage girls, teaching them to put their trust in our Lord before men. And most of all I will begin relying on my King Jesus everyday and trusting that our Lord has the perfect plan for his people and for his kingdom. I don't have all the answers and I don't know exactly what this journey will look like but I know God will equip me for the road ahead, and I want to ask you to help me in prayer. Luke 14:27 - Anyone who does not carry My cross and follow Me cannot be my disciple. Vs. 33- Any of you who does not give up everything you have cannot be my disciple. People might think I am crazy for going on this road.

Do Something

I woke up this morning Saw a world full of trouble now and I Thought, how'd we ever get so far down How's it ever gonna turn around So I turned my eyes to Heaven and I thought, "God, why don't You do something?" Well, I just couldn't bear the thought of p eople living in poverty Children sold into slavery The thought disgusted me So, I shook my fist at Heaven and sa id, "God, why don't You do something?" He said, "I did, I created you " If not us, then who If not me and you r ight now, it's time for us to do something If not now, then when w ill we see an end t o all this pain It's not enough to do nothing i t's time for us to do something I'm so tired of talking a bout how we are God's hands and feet But it's easier to say than to believ e like angels of apathy who tell ourselves it 's alright, "somebody else will do something" Well, I don't know about you b ut I'm