I want to take a moment to personally thank Mrs. Baggett's kindergarten class at Caldwell Elementary School in Scottsboro for praying for me and keeping up with this mission trip to Haiti! My nephew Holland is in her class.
As we talked about last week when I dropped by for lunch, missionaries are people who tell other people about Jesus Christ. We just celebrated Easter Sunday, which is a day Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. After Jesus resurrected from the grave, He appeared to many people. One of the times He spoke after His resurrection is found in the Bible in Matthew 28:18-20, known as the Great Commission. This is where Jesus tells His followers to tell others about Him everywhere!
This is why I'm going to Haiti to tell people about Jesus. Churches are very different in Haiti than they are where we live, and kids your age are very poor. Some kids your age don't have any food to eat or a place to sleep at night. Many of the kids your age are sick because of the conditions they live in.
What I am doing in Haiti is called a medical mission. We are going with doctors and nurses to give medicine to the sick children in Haiti. While the doctors are making the kids feel better, I will be telling their parents about Jesus and praying with them!
We left tonight from Huntsville, Alabama on an airplane and flew to Atlanta, Georgia. Then we got on a different plane and flew to Melbourne, Florida (where I am right now while typing this blog). At 6 in the morning we fly to Cap Haiten, Haiti and then we'll ride to Milot, Haiti in a dump truck!
Hey kids: can you find those 5 cities on a map? Can you trace where all I have travelled? Have you ever ridden to church in a dump truck?
Well, I have to go to bed so I can get up early in the morning. I will try to write new blogs each day and I hope it will be some cool stuff to learn about in school! Please don't forget to pray for me every day! And Holland, I love you and miss you and can't wait to see you & Tess when I return!
Thank you Mrs. Baggett for being such a great teacher and letting this be a real educational experience!
KDG
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