Haiti Mission Trip 2011
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This June, a small team of volunteers from Revolution Annapolis traveled to Port-au-Prince, Haiti to aid a group of missionaries operating a church-sponsored orphanage within the city. While in Haiti, this team stayed at Maison de Lumiere—or, “The Lighthouse”—where they provided much-needed relief for day-to-day operational activities, organizing and hosting events for the roughly 40 orphans currently staying at Maison de Lumiere, and, for three days of the week, opening the doors of the orphanage to the thousands of poor and starving children of Port-au-Prince. With God’s help, they were able to help the staff at the orphanage construct an additional building to be used for housing, meeting, and educational space for the boys and girls living at the orphanage.
Although Maison de Lumiere was founded and began operating years before the devastating events of January 2010, the effects of that disaster are still palpable in the nation’s capital. In a country where the vast majority of children are born into abject poverty, the effect of losing working family members and/or the homes they lived in was devastating. Haiti is currently home to more than half a million orphans, and another 300,000 children in the country are owned and trafficked as human slaves. Since the earthquake, the demands on Maison de Lumiere have been immense, and it was the team’s goal that, for at least one week, they could minister to these people (and to these children) in a way that not only reveals God’s love, but also extends it in a miraculous way!
To hear more about the trip be sure to check out the teams blog.