Tuesday, July 15, 2014
House Dedication
This year, we started a ministry of building houses for widows, orphans,
and the handicapped within our church that lived in our community. We
have built three houses so far in this project. Short term missions
teams raise the money for the house, then work side by side with Haitian
laborers to build it. The local church leadership is responsible for
choosing the families for the homes and making the connection between
the teams and the community. The process of building the house takes
several weeks, so teams are only here to see part of it done. We then
take pictures of the finished product so that the teams can share that
with their churches and supporters back home. The following video was of
the first house project. The recipient of the house is a widow who is
very active in our church. She started trying to build a house on her
own and found that she just could not, so she asked the church for help
in doing so, just in time for us to launch this new ministry. When the
house was finished, she refused to sleep in it until the church body
came to dedicate it to the Lord. That is what this video is. One Sunday
after church, we stopped by the house, sang praises to God, dedicated
and prayed over the church and Mme Carmel. The village was able to see
the church at work in the community through this very tangible example,
being the hands and feet of Jesus.
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What a beautiful video and a beautiful project! I wish I could see more of the house! Does the church you minister at have a website? Is there more information somewhere?
ReplyDeletePatty, the organization we work with is Nehemiah Vision Ministries. You can find it at www.nvm.org!
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