The days of Jesus

Beyond blessed that La Limye's board of directors and leadership team was able to come to Haiti in June. Here is one of the experiences that was felt. To all, Thank you all for traveling to Haiti to visit La Limye Ministries this past week and working to make the children's home a little closer to being finished. I personally feel blessed by everyone on the trip and am so happy about the new bonds of close friendship I feel for each of you. On the bus while passing some houses on a hill side Cathy made the comment that Haiti looks a lot like how she envisions Israel looked at the time of Jesus. Not just the landscape of mountains and ocean but the way the people lived then and now. I believe her perceptions are correct. In the time of Jesus people lived in stone houses, got their daily water from a well or pool and put it in jars they carried on their head. In Jesus' time was no air conditioning or refrigeration, most people had to walk everywhere, there was no electricity for lights, people slept on pallets on the floor, medical help was nonexistent for most and poverty was rampant. Society was divided into rich and poor and there was little hope of the poor ever leaving their poverty behind. Finally, there were foreign religions that were taking people away from the God of the Bible. (In Jesus' time it was mainly Greek and Egyptian gods and some nature gods worshiped in lands east of the Jordan river. In Haiti we are talking primarily about Voodoo.) Two thousand years ago God sent His Son Jesus to save the people and give them hope for a better life. Jesus is still doing the same in Haiti today. He is giving hope to the hopeless. They may always be in poverty in this lifetime but they have hope in eternal life with Jesus. I feel blessed that God gave me the opportunity to help, in just a little way, the people in the villages near Ellen's home. I feel equally blessed that He chose each of you as well. God bless, Mike