Volunteering for the Glory of God

A group of PRIHA volunteers, Zachary, and two representatives from the BTGMI office, Nzuzi Lukombo and Curt Selles.

No matter where you are in the world, trying to run an organization through volunteers is pretty much like the famous cartoon of a caveman pushing a cart with square wheels.  It can be difficult to get things going!  But, there are a lot of advantages to volunteers.  For one, you can be sure that, in the absence of a monetary incentive, volunteers have a vision for the work that they are doing.  Second, with volunteers, meager resources can be greatly stretched.  Our media ministry, Perspectives Reformees Internationales d' Haiti (PRIHA), a ministry of Back to God Ministries International (BTGMI), runs almost entirely on volunteers.  There are volunteer promoters who recruit students for PRIHA's bible-study-by-correspondence.  There are volunteer graders that correct each answer of the more than 1500 participants' bible studies.  There are the volunteers that listen to Pastor Paul Mpindi's messages on each of the 30+ radio stations that broadcast Perspectives Reformees throughout Haiti (the volunteer listeners fill out a report and send it back to the PRIHA office to inform us whether the stations are broadcasting the messages as contracted).  There are volunteers who bind and staple thousands of photocopies of the bible study to be distributed.  In the end, volunteers such as the ones pictured above, carry the load of ministry and dramatically decrease the funds needed to reach Haitians through media with the live-saving Gospel message.  Thank you, volunteers!