It’s transition day in Haiti.  Our team from UMD headed to the airport early this morning and later this afternoon we’ll welcome the team from Mason back to DC.  As simple as that transition might seem, it’s really significant in the life of The Gathering.  We’ve been dreaming for a while about ways to harness the momentum of the collegiate generation in DC to effect sustained, lasting change in communities.  To see that happening in a little village called Percin in a remote part of the poorest country in the Western hemisphere is a dream come true.  Since last May, we’ve sent four teams to that village and two students from The Gathering went for the summer.  We’re not just going to find an isolated serving experience that can become more about us than the people we’re coming to serve.  We’re shifting the culture in Percin.  That village is changing.  And you’re a part of that.

But it would also be easy to allow our focus on Haiti to slide this week as many of us come back from spring break.  It would be easy to slide back into the frantic pace of life and fail to head Paul’s urgings:

“I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone— for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.” – 1 Timothy 2: 1-2

Keep praying for Haiti.  Pray they will be able to follow-up with the new believers from last week’s trip.  Pray they will be able to train the adults in Percin in how to minister to the children.  Pray for their health, safety and joy.

God isn’t anywhere near done in Haiti.  And neither are we.