Bold prayers honor God, and God honors bold prayers – Mark Batterson, The Circle Maker
We are starting our NEW crazy mission adventure and I’m so excited for you to join us as mission-hearted people. As you know, God sold our home when we sent an email to a wonderful missionary family living in a tiny village in Haiti called Pignon. If you say it with a fancy French Creole accent, it sounds really beautiful! Bill and Jennifer Campbell have lived in Pignon for the past 10 years and dreamed of celebrating their 10th year anniversary in the states. However, they have an orphanage (Haiti Home of Hope) and medical clinic they serve 24/7, so picking up and leaving together as a couple takes huge effort and basically impossible.
OPERATION: HAITI. The Gibson family were thrilled to help our missionary friends take a much needed break from missions, so we said, “We’ll do it!!!” We are heading to Pignon, as a family for the months of November through January for Part 2 of our mission’s adventure. We are thrilled and excited and a little scared for this next chapter, but with prayers and support from family and friends … we can do it afraid. We do not feel adequate or worthy to be happy helpers in Haiti, but very grateful for this incredible opportunity and thankful to God for allowing our family to do something soooo crazy! We need 50 donors to give $50 a month through September 2013!!
Our Top 8 Needs:
- Travel: Haiti – $2,800
- Travel: Nicaragua- $2,800
- Travel: Ethiopia – $8,000
- Health Insurance: $800 a month
- In-country residence: $1000 a month
- In-country transportation: $700 a month
- Food: $400 a month
- Personal items- $500 a month
What will we be doing in Pignon, Haiti?
We leave mid-November (on faith promise) to Pignon, Haiti through January 16th. Roger and I will be learning the ropes with our missionary friends, the Campbells on training 101, conducting the day to day responsibilities of Haiti Home of Hope (orphanage) and the clinic. They have a weekly mother’s milk program and provide formula and basic needs to the children & community families. Throughout the next few weeks, I’m going to share with you stories and photos of the beautiful community of Pignon we will be serving in Haiti. They will change your life, too.
(2 month) Haiti Happy Helpers:
- Haiti Home of Hope Orphanage
- Mother’s Milk Program
- Weekly Clinic for community
- Man Up Bible Study for teens & young adults in the community
Bloggy friends, how can you help?
We need your help … please pray, encourage, and support our family as short term missionaries. Roger and I self funded all our personal and project expenses the past 4 months living in Ethiopia. Now, we want to finish the mission-dream God called us to do this year and serve big. As missionaries, it’s humbling to ask people for money, but as mission-hearted people, you have an amazing opportunity to join us and live James 1:27 together… even if you can’t be with us physically in Pignon, Haiti or Ethiopia.
We have “circled” an amount of money we need to raise for our personal expenses for 12 months on the mission-field, as well as 
our projects in Haiti and Ethiopia. We can’t do this on our own, but God can do it!! If you are a regular reader on My Crazy Adoption blog, you know … we are home-less and unemployed, but 100% committed to being a mission-hearted family, serving and sharing the gospel to the unreached people groups.
If you would like to help fund our mission’s adventure to Pignon, and back to Ethiopia, consider giving to our brand new ministry, simply love monthly or a one-time gift. Your tax-deductible donations will not only help us live out our mission dreams, but will help us with our many projects we are doing in Haiti and Ethiopia. You can give and pray and cheer and love big = Simply Love.
What we need to raise for support:
Many of you have asked us to share the specifics of how you can help us with our mission’s adventure support.
You can support us by first and foremost keeping our family in your prayers. We have self funded our mission adventure, but now it’s time for us to ask for financial support. Here are specific needs we have:
- Health Insurance- $9,600 a year ($800 a month)
- Flights: Haiti – $2,800 / Nicaragua- $2,800 / Ethiopia – $8,000
- In-country residence: $1,000 a month
- In-country transportation: $500 a month, Fuel $200 a month
- Food: $400 a month
- Personal items: $500 a month
In addition, you an support us financially with a one time gift or monthly contribution. Any monetary gift will go towards helping us meet our monthly expenses. Overages will go towards helping facilitate projects in the area we serve such as feeding, building, bedding, medications, etc.
Please send any financial support* by check (made payable to Simply Love) to:
706 North Lindenwood Drive #100
Olathe, Kansas 66062
or make a contribution by credit card here …
