[This is the text of the letter I am sending/emailing so that people know what is going on with my upcoming short trip to Haiti. And I appreciate any prayers!]
My dear family and friends,
I am excited to write this letter to you! In addition to going back to Haiti with the team from CrossRoad Church May 20-29, I also want to speak about teaching in Haiti in the near future!
The annual visit to CrossRoad’s sister church in Tiburon holds special significance this year. After working with the Tiburon church since 2002, during our visit they are dedicating the church, and we will participate. I am excited, since visiting on the first team, to share this moment with our Haitian family. Our visit to encourage the church is a testament to God’s faithfulness, as we have partnered with them, helping to equip them to reach their community. Their school is also thriving, and almost all of the students are sponsored by CrossRoad families.
As a veteran Haiti team member, it will be a real treat to be able to equip and assist my fellow team members with their ministry ideas and plans, and then be available to serve them in implementing their ideas once we are in the ground in Haiti. I love to pool the resources, knowledge, and connections that we have access to, in order to bring big dreams and God-sized vision to life. And God is soooo cool to bring it all together in such a way that we cannot deny His hand in it all. I just can’t wait to get into Haiti, where I will be able to help and encourage the team as they encounter the challenges inherent in Haitian ministry.
I will also be leading our ladies' meeting this year. The Haitian women serve us so graciously, and sacrificially, when we visit, and we love being able to devote a time to all of the women of the church being together! I am ready and willing to step into this role, though at 26, I hardly feel qualified to speak to women of all ages. But I trust that God will give me a word for them, in order to encourage and love on them.
As I speak of the short-term trip to Haiti in May, I want to reaffirm that I do still feel God’s call into long-term missions, and for that to lead me first specifically to Haiti, to teach the children of missionaries and local church workers in the Cite Lumiere School, located in Les Cayes. I will be going through an agency called World Team to do this. I recently completed their candidate evaluation school, referred to as RACE, and I signed with them, so I am officially a missionary now! The trip in May will also function as what World Team calls my "Vision Trip," where I meet their other missionaries in the field, and spend some time in my future classroom. In the end of our trips to Haiti, we have an extra day built in. So during that time, I will be meeting with the other World Team missionaries who work and live in Cite Lumiere (which is within Cayes, where RMI, who facilitates the sister church program, is housed as well). It is truly a blessing that I can essentially "kill two birds with one stone" financially speaking, because if it were not for the trip with CRC, I would have to buy another plane ticket, as well as take more time off from work and cover other expenses a second time. I am very thankful for God's providence in the situation.
For more updates and details not in this letter, you can visit: http://gerimovingtowardhaiti.blogspot.com, or email me at geribass@gmail.com to subscribe to the email update, if you prefer. Those will go out when the blog is updated.
Also, as always, I covet your prayers. More and more I learn just how valuable our prayers are, and how God really does hear when we call on His name. I hope that you will pray for the May team, especially for unity to be fostered of the supernatural kind, and for God to be glorified no matter what happens as we prepare and go to Haiti. Pray that each team member would just lean on God in this season of preparation, and that each of us would listen for His voice in all that we do. Also, please pray that God would equip those who he has called financially, both for the trip, and for the lack of pay they may experience during the trip. Please additionally lift up each team member’s health, both now and while we are in Haiti.
In Christ,
Geri A Bass
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