Haiti Advance Team

FYI blogger and Fuller grad Lars Rood, along with our friends Jeremy Zach (also a Fuller grad), Mark Oestreicher, Adam McLane from Youth Specialties, and several other ministry bloggers are heading to Haiti tomorrow.  Follow them on Facebook or their blogs for regular updates if you’re not already doing it.  They have a challenging task ahead of them: to tell the stories of what’s happening on the ground in Haiti (perhaps especially what they learn from the Haitian church), to inspire/challenge the youth ministry world with ideas about ways to respond (and not respond) in the coming year, all while trying hard not to exploit the very real people they encounter or make a spectacle of what’s already quite a spectacle.

They need our prayers.

Lars has committed to blog at FYI this year about his own youth ministry’s changing approach to short-term missions (based on utilizing our Deep Justice Journeys approach), and I’m excited to see how this trip will also impact his perspective and their changing practices.  But more than that, I’m excited about how God can use the voices in this team to spread the word about what God is up to in Haiti.

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