“Love the Lord, all his faithful people! The Lord preserves those who are true to him, but the proud he pays back in full. Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the Lord.” Psalm 31:23-24
I can’t begin to count the number of times that I have spoken to somebody that supports a ‘feeding’ program at a school in Haiti. To me, there is only one real ‘feeding’ program and the others are either treats, sad copies or are doing more harm than help to the physical bodies of the students in school.
When I ask what type of ‘feeding’ program they support, the answers vary. Filling a shipping container with peanut butter and crackers, bags of rice, bags of dry beans, granola bars and vitamin gummies or, packing those items in bags and sending them to Haiti with a mission team.
The result of this type of ‘feeding’ program is predictable; the Haitian school will always need help from you. When the shipping container is unavailable or if the mission team can’t come due to political unrest, earthquake or a pandemic, the children go hungry and the vodou priest plants a seed of doubt; “Why didn’t your God send you food today?”
Trinity HOPE wires funds to their feeding program directors in Haiti so they can purchase food from the local vendors and transport it to the Christian schools so over 42,500 children like this child, will receive a well-balanced meal every day they are in school, learning about their Savior. And prayerfully, when the schools are able to fund these feeding programs, they will be on their own as they have the purchasing, cooking and serving the meals down pat.
Heavenly Father, you have called your servants to ventures of which we cannot see the ending, by paths as yet untrodden, through perils unknown. Give us faith to go out with good courage, not knowing where we go but only that your hand is leading us and your love supporting us through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. Amen.
May God be with you…Jay