"Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age." I think that this verse is very important for people who are going on mission trips because Jesus directly commands you to make disciples and teach them the things that you have learned. We are not supposed to go to a foreign area and expect great things to come out of it, if our heart really isn't in it. We should go into these kinds of mission trips knowing that physically helping isn't all that matters, we need to reach into peoples' hearts and tell them about Jesus, too.
On that note, I would like to say why I am going to Haiti. I am going to this broken country because the people need their homes or other personal items to be repaired, they need people to play with them and have a good time, and they also just need loving on. I know that God has given me the ability to do all of these things, so I am very excited to see what He has planned for me and how He will use me. I am also going to Haiti because I know that if I wasn't going, then I would probably be stuck at home bored or on vacation. I know for a fact that my house or the beach definitely does not need me as much as Haiti does. So, I totally feel blessed that God has called me to go on this mission trip.
When I signed up for this, I was not expecting to write a few paragraphs on why I am going, but I have realized that there are more unsuspecting things to come. We will never know for sure what God has in store for us, but all we have to do is listen to Him and go with the flow. I know that God is so excited for this team to be going and that we can definitely change some peoples' lives. This will for sure be an experience that we will not be able to forget.
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