We took a two hour journey up into the mountains yesterday and visited a children’s rescue center called Real Hope for Haiti. This center focuses on providing crisis nutritional care for young children. We met a two year old girl (in the picture above being held) who came to the center the previous day. At age two she weighs only 14 pounds.
The name does this clinic well. There is a perseverance and hopefulness in the staff that is infectious. The children seemed to have been infected by this hopefulness bug as well. Their smiles are wide and welcoming and their eyes twinkle and charm you as they meet yours.
There is real hope in Haiti. The director of the program was asked about the sharing of the gospel in this area and specifically through the clinic. She said that they indeed share the gospel but rarely preach it in words. You see, most of these children are brought to the witch doctor when they become sick because it is thought that they have a spell or a curse upon them. As they continue to get sicker and unable to eat, they are finally brought to the rescue center. When the cildren become well through the work of the people who serve at the clinic, the power of Christ is known to all and many of the families of the children become practicing Christians by virtue of the power of healing.
These children are not cursed. They are blessed to meet the power of God through the hands, feet, and hearts of those who do the front line work in the mountains and those who support them from back home in the states. The blessing that is bestowed on them comes through the work of the Spirit that opens checkbooks to provide necessary funding to keep these children alive. Praise to the spirit of Christ who makes us one and calls to action in a world where many feel they are cursed.
Now the Lord said to Abram, “I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.” Genesis 12:2
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