Monthly Archives: February 2023

How Should We Respond to Poverty?

Every day, 16,000 children die from starvation around the world. That means 16,000 died yesterday, 16,000 will die today, and another 16,000 tomorrow. By contrast, we live in a place where we throw away enough food to end child starvation. Statistically, if we took all the money we spend on dog food alone, we could stop world hunger. Can you imagine that? When we think in those terms, it’s especially shocking that child slavery still exists only 700 miles off the coast of Florida. We see a dramatic need to fill that gap and say, in very practical terms, “This [...]

2023-04-06T15:35:05-07:00February 24th, 2023|Categories: Ministry Highlights|Tags: , , , |

Let’s Pray Together

What a treasure to hold my children’s small hands in mine, watch them grow, and enjoy their childhood. It’s not something I take lightly. Especially since I know not every parent or child has the same privileges. I’m wearing these bracelets my daughter and I made together at the Simi Walk for Restaveks last October. They remind me to pray for Mickenson, our sponsored child, his brothers and sisters in our Children’s Homes, and all the restaveks in Haiti. They remind me to pray for Haiti’s broken government, broken economy, and broken people. I’d like to be candid that it [...]

2023-04-06T15:37:14-07:00February 17th, 2023|Categories: Ministry Highlights|Tags: , , , |

Supporting Missions—The Aust Family

The Aust family has supported Connect 2 Ministries for years, and they make a point of including their children, Eisley and Avison, in family ministry. We asked Kevin and Tina to share today about their experience getting their whole family involved in missions. One year, my daughter, Eisley, asked our family to give Bibles on her behalf to the children in Haiti instead of buying her gifts for Christmas. I’m not sure why she did this. She was 10 or 11 at the time, and we had recently been talking about Connect 2 Ministries and the Regency Home. I [...]

2023-06-21T15:52:15-07:00February 10th, 2023|Categories: Ministry Highlights|Tags: , |

VBS 2022 Recap

During the last week of 2022, Pastor Poyis organized multiple VBS programs for the communities around Onaville. He asked all of our Mercy Network pastors to participate, and we were so excited to hear that each of the ten VBS programs was successful. The churches were full! The older children in our Homes are once again serving children in their surrounding communities. While it’s encouraging to watch these kids grow from a distance, it’s a special blessing to see them serving meals, leading worship and acting out Bible stories for 250 children who need the light [...]

2024-06-08T06:43:33-07:00February 3rd, 2023|Categories: Ministry Highlights|Tags: , , , , |
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