At Orchard Hill Church this month, individuals and families are generously giving money to buy tables, chairs, and computers that will be shipped on a bus that our partners in Haiti, United Christians International, purchased for their ministry. Shipping the bus from Florida to Haiti is priced by volume not weight, so it made sense to load the bus with supplies that UCI needs and requested. But that's not even the best news...
These tables, chairs, and computers will be used in a university at UCI that is in its second year and is growing in reputation and size. It is an accredited university that will have the country's first hands-on science laboratory for their pre-med students. It will also have an agricultural program for students that will provide food for the university students. But that's not even the best news...
University professors are Haitians who have masters degrees and are passionate followers of Christ. Students who come to the university are not required to be Christian, but they are immersed in a dynamic Christian community; an environment full of Bible Study, prayer, worship, and service. When I was there last Spring, I had the privilege to play volleyball with university students, to sit in a living room laughing and play ridiculous games with college students until late at night, and to spend an evening sitting in a large circle outside with the leaders of UCI, JeanJean and Kristie Mompremier, college students, and the team we brought from Iowa. We sang, we laughed, we played games, and we were able to pray together for a college student who came forth and gave her life to Christ. JeanJean translated and told us that this student had decided to give her life to Christ after witnessing and being part of such a joy-filled, peace-filled, purpose-filled community. She wanted what she saw in believers, and she crossed the line of faith into Christ's life in the Kingdom of God. That's the best news!
Students will not only leave the university as educated leaders for their Haitian communities. Many will leave as Christian leaders equipped as disciples to share the Gospel in word and deed. Jesus will transform hearts, lives, and communities as His Church spreads out across Haiti.
It's a joy to partner with UCI and to help provide the university students with sturdy chairs, tables, and some computers for their education.
It's a joy to partner with UCI in their mission...
"To develop
disciple-making churches for the glory of God that:
-Exalt Christ (Matthew
28:16-18)
-Evangelize the lost
(Matthew 28:19)
-Edify believers
(Matthew 28:20)
...beginning in the
Central Plateau of Haiti and extending to all the world."
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