Homes For Haiti

Tuesday January 12, 2010 was a day that changed the lives of many. It was the day of the now famous Haiti Earthquake. An estimated 200,000 people died and over 1 million people became homeless. But God is at work in this small Caribbean country.

Men For Missions is beginning a campaign on August 22, 2010 called "Homes for Haiti." The plan is to go into Haiti and build homes for the needy and homeless. We will start off by building 20 homes in Port Au Prince as a test, and we hope to expand the project even further. Please pray for these teams as the homes are built. Pray that God would use these houses as homes for shelter, but also as places were he can dwell and where people will worship His name.

Briyana and I have had a good week. Yesterday was Briyana's birthday. She is now 24 years old. We baked a cake, had some quality time together, and were able to have a nice dinner with family. Briyana's last day of summer is tomorrow, and I know she is looking forward to having a couple of weeks of rest away from school.

As far as our ministry goes, we are looking forward to sharing our opportunity with a friends small group this Sunday, and we just turned in an application for support from our home church. Please lift up both of these in prayer please. We are also working on finalizing our list of addresses to mail out our first newsletter. You should look forward to receiving this in the next month or so.

Blessings,

Brent and Briyana

Picture courtesy of Le Nouvelliste Haiti via Flickr