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For the first time ever, the RMI Board traveled to Haiti during the last week in February to see and experience RMI’s many ministries first hand as well as meet and encourage our growing staff.  Despite a busy schedule, it was a rewarding, insightful experience for everyone.  In 2 days they: Visited a school to see a hot lunch program in action.  The Board members actually handed out the food.  Toured the new RMI office at Cite Lumiere in Les Cayes  Visited a Rastavic school where there are several Hope for Kidz sponsored kids  Visited a Homes for Haiti home in the Simon neighborhood, toured the home and prayed with the widow that lives there with her 2 little girls  Joined the RMI staff for morning devotions (given by Board chairman, Tim Osborne) after which the Board members washed the staff’s feet and prayed with them  Met with Pastor Emile

For the first time ever, the RMI Board traveled to Haiti during the last week in February to see and experience RMI’s many ministries first hand as well as meet and encourage our growing staff.  Despite a busy schedule, it was a rewarding, insightful experience for everyone.  In 2 days they: Visited a school to see a hot lunch program in action.  The Board members actually handed out the food.  Toured the new RMI office at Cite Lumiere in Les Cayes  Visited a Rastavic school where there are several Hope for Kidz sponsored kids  Visited a Homes for Haiti home in the Simon neighborhood, toured the home and prayed with the widow that lives there with her 2 little girls  Joined the RMI staff for morning devotions (given by Board chairman, Tim Osborne) after which the Board members washed the staff’s feet and prayed with them  Met with Pastor Emile

For the first time ever, the RMI Board traveled to Haiti during the last week in February to see and experience RMI’s many ministries first hand as well as meet and encourage our growing staff.  Despite a busy schedule, it was a rewarding, insightful experience for everyone.  In 2 days they: Visited a school to see a hot lunch program in action.  The Board members actually handed out the food.  Toured the new RMI office at Cite Lumiere in Les Cayes  Visited a Rastavic school where there are several Hope for Kidz sponsored kids  Visited a Homes for Haiti home in the Simon neighborhood, toured the home and prayed with the widow that lives there with her 2 little girls  Joined the RMI staff for morning devotions (given by Board chairman, Tim Osborne) after which the Board members washed the staff’s feet and prayed with them  Met with Pastor Emile

10.  Assume You Understand – Instead, assume you don’t understand.  Don’t draw conclusions without lots of questions and listening (and then question your conclusions again).  9.  Assume Cultural Superiority – Realize, that you dress like you dress, walk like you walk, buy the stuff you buy, talk the way you talk, sit the way you sit, dream the way you dream, think the way you think, all because of your own context, and the context of your ancestors.  Don’t assume it is the better or right way.  Assume it is simply a different way.  Constantly say, “It’s not weird, it’s just different”. 8.  Assume You Understand the Root Cause and Solution of Economic Poverty – Don’t assume you understand the definitions of wealth and poverty.  Poverty is complex.  There aren’t easy solutions.  Immediately upon your arrival, maybe even within 5 minutes of leaving the airport, you may start to dream

10.  Assume You Understand – Instead, assume you don’t understand.  Don’t draw conclusions without lots of questions and listening (and then question your conclusions again).  9.  Assume Cultural Superiority – Realize, that you dress like you dress, walk like you walk, buy the stuff you buy, talk the way you talk, sit the way you sit, dream the way you dream, think the way you think, all because of your own context, and the context of your ancestors.  Don’t assume it is the better or right way.  Assume it is simply a different way.  Constantly say, “It’s not weird, it’s just different”. 8.  Assume You Understand the Root Cause and Solution of Economic Poverty – Don’t assume you understand the definitions of wealth and poverty.  Poverty is complex.  There aren’t easy solutions.  Immediately upon your arrival, maybe even within 5 minutes of leaving the airport, you may start to dream

10.  Assume You Understand – Instead, assume you don’t understand.  Don’t draw conclusions without lots of questions and listening (and then question your conclusions again).  9.  Assume Cultural Superiority – Realize, that you dress like you dress, walk like you walk, buy the stuff you buy, talk the way you talk, sit the way you sit, dream the way you dream, think the way you think, all because of your own context, and the context of your ancestors.  Don’t assume it is the better or right way.  Assume it is simply a different way.  Constantly say, “It’s not weird, it’s just different”. 8.  Assume You Understand the Root Cause and Solution of Economic Poverty – Don’t assume you understand the definitions of wealth and poverty.  Poverty is complex.  There aren’t easy solutions.  Immediately upon your arrival, maybe even within 5 minutes of leaving the airport, you may start to dream

We have begun calling our entire staff “missionaries”, both foreign and domestic.   Why? We want to emphasize that we are all here as ONE TEAM, with ONE CALLING, for ONE MISSION, no matter the color of our skin or the location of our original zip code. “Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.” Ephesians 4:15-16 ESV “But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.” Acts

We have begun calling our entire staff “missionaries”, both foreign and domestic.   Why? We want to emphasize that we are all here as ONE TEAM, with ONE CALLING, for ONE MISSION, no matter the color of our skin or the location of our original zip code. “Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.” Ephesians 4:15-16 ESV “But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.” Acts

We have begun calling our entire staff “missionaries”, both foreign and domestic.   Why? We want to emphasize that we are all here as ONE TEAM, with ONE CALLING, for ONE MISSION, no matter the color of our skin or the location of our original zip code. “Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.” Ephesians 4:15-16 ESV “But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.” Acts

Will you eat today?  That’s a real question that many people ask every day in the majority world.  America is the minority, it’s not even close. Here in Haiti, TODAY, 5075 children will eat because they are in our Hope for Kidz Hot Lunch program.  “For more than half it will be their ONLY meal.”  We are privileged to be able to be the hands who are able to get this food to them. It takes a lot of work… many partners working together, believing in one another, and a great deal of logistics, trust and team work to make it all happen.  Not just happen, but happen with excellence.  We are grateful for Feed My Starving Children who donates the food itself to us and the many volunteers who we don’t even know who pack this food.  We are grateful for Food for the Poor – Haiti who provides

Will you eat today?  That’s a real question that many people ask every day in the majority world.  America is the minority, it’s not even close. Here in Haiti, TODAY, 5075 children will eat because they are in our Hope for Kidz Hot Lunch program.  “For more than half it will be their ONLY meal.”  We are privileged to be able to be the hands who are able to get this food to them. It takes a lot of work… many partners working together, believing in one another, and a great deal of logistics, trust and team work to make it all happen.  Not just happen, but happen with excellence.  We are grateful for Feed My Starving Children who donates the food itself to us and the many volunteers who we don’t even know who pack this food.  We are grateful for Food for the Poor – Haiti who provides

Will you eat today?  That’s a real question that many people ask every day in the majority world.  America is the minority, it’s not even close. Here in Haiti, TODAY, 5075 children will eat because they are in our Hope for Kidz Hot Lunch program.  “For more than half it will be their ONLY meal.”  We are privileged to be able to be the hands who are able to get this food to them. It takes a lot of work… many partners working together, believing in one another, and a great deal of logistics, trust and team work to make it all happen.  Not just happen, but happen with excellence.  We are grateful for Feed My Starving Children who donates the food itself to us and the many volunteers who we don’t even know who pack this food.  We are grateful for Food for the Poor – Haiti who provides

Each month we have a feature that appears on the back of each paper receipt and now appears in text on the e-receipts. Some of the items also appear here in our blog. We didn’t want you to miss out on any news, so we’re going to be posting them here. This month’s Ministry Highlights featured: 13,000 Kids De-Wormed… In December, the 3rd Annual Hope for Kidz (HFK) Deworming seminar was held. All the school administrators attended to review the program protocols and the meds were distributed for the clinics at their schools. The last two years we’ve taught these school leaders how to administer and keep good records of deworming meds distributed at their schools as well as gave them educational materials and training on how to teach worm prevention to each of their classes. This year we distributed deworming medication and cups to 51 schools for 12,576 students