Bonjour from the Segaar-Kings: Looking for a Few Good Teams!

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Looking for a Few Good Teams!

We are looking for a few good teams! An important part of our ministry is recruiting and receiving volunteers for Service and Learning Teams and Church Partnerships teams. These two kinds of teams are vital to our ministry for several reasons. First, they inform our supporters of how to better pray and lend a hand to our ministry in Haiti. Secondly, they provide visitors an opportunity to learn about themselves and their own faith through the lens of developing relationships with people from another culture who share their faith in Christ. Thirdly, teams are an important mechanism for funding our special construction and development projects in Haiti. Service and Learning teams are focused on learning about Haitian culture and ministry. They also have a service project which has a construction component as we are trying to complete the conference center for our partner, the Ministry for Christian Development. Teams that are interested in Church Partnerships often visit from 5-7 days and spend focused time learning about our ministry and a community in Haiti. We hope that after several visits, such teams will undertake a church-to-church or a church-to-community relationship that will include communication, visits, and eventually, shared projects. We are so thankful for a team from Lakeside CRC of Alto, MI that visited us in the month of October. They have developed a relationship with the CRC of Haiti churches from Thomassique over the last three years. It has been an awesome growing experience for both Lakeside and Thomassique. Currently, Lakeside is doing a project in Thomassique that includes church construction, latrine construction, a justice program, a leadership training program and microcredit. Please prayerfully consider how your church would like to participate in sending a team to Haiti!