My name is April Purvis and I live in Charlotte, North Carolina. I'm sixteen and this coming fall I'll be a junior at Charlotte Catholic High School. I love playing tennis, guitar, acting, and cooking. I'm really excited about spending time with the Haitian children, like everyone else, because I have a heart for kids, but one of the things I find really exciting is being prepared to do whatever asked. Typically, in America, when someone asks, "Can you do me a favor?", most people's immediate response would be somewhere along the lines of asking what the favor was. It'll be different when we get to respond, "Sure, how can I serve you?".
My favorite Bible verse is Jeremiah 17:7, "Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord whose confidence is in him." It had always been my favorite verse (this is going to sound bad) simply because it was the first verse I had ever memorized that stuck with me. Up until recently, I didn't really understand how it could be applied to my life. As we embark on our sojourn to Haiti, we must put all our trust in the Lord, just as Jeremiah states. We have to trust him to prepare our hearts, to open our eyes, to keep us safe, and to make our work mean something.
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