A Blog About Life and Ministry in the "Pearl of the Antilles"

Zachary and Sharon Segaar-King, along with their children, Hannah, Vivian, Isaiah, and Esther, who are serving with Resonate Global Mission







Friday, August 22, 2014

Ministry Project Getting Grey Hair?


The present reality of mission-work is that projects (and even our presence in the country we serve) are increasingly dependent on the ups and downs of donations instead of reliable budgeted-funds from a mission sending-organization.  Our project to help the Ministry of Christian Development (a Haitian para-church organization with which we partner) to build a conference center has, despite our best efforts, been "getting a little grey hair" of late.  During our last fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, we only had a few visiting service and learning teams who raised money for this project (instead of our average of around ten per year), with the result that the project languished.  However, by God's grace, several individual donors has stepped up to help us complete the project.  Why should Sous Espwa (the ministries of the CRC in Haiti) be involved in helping to fund a conference center for a Haitian Christian organization?  The answer is our long-term goal of sustainability.  Our plan and hope is that the Ministry of Christian Development, an organization that gives practical training to church leaders in rural Haiti, can use this facility to raise revenue for ministry locally in addition to hosting its own conferences and seminars.  We look forward to this facility being put into service of Timothy Leadership Training (TLT).  Last may, we had over 100 participants in the training, which pushed our current training facility past its limits.  Our plan is that the conference room will be complete (with ceramic tile, windows, and electric installation) by October, 2014.  Thank you for your prayers and support for the conference center project!

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