Helping Haiti

Have you seen the pictures? It's horrific! I can't wrap my brain around this tragedy. I have read that it's like something out of a movie and seems surreal with the dead bodies laying outside in piles, kids being sold to greedy tourists who came for that purpose, people killing each other for food. We have never experienced anything like this and probably never will! We have had disasters but our country is beyond blessed compared to the state Haiti was in to begin with.

It seems overwhelming but even our feeble efforts to help WILL help! There are many ways to give-even if you can only give a little! Our church wants to raise $5,000 within the missional communities this month. Our MC is thinking of ways to raise money. My idea is to buy candy bars from Costco and sell them to our neighbors for $2/each with 100% of the money raised going directly to our church fund for Haiti.

*Side note-funny story about this...As our family was talking about ways to raise money, I suggested the above idea. Knox thought it wasn't a good idea and we should sell ground beef instead! hahaha! Ummm...no-we're going with candy!*

After this crazy storm in San Diego passes, Jesse wants to do a car wash. A friend in another MC is asking everyone to bring money to donate to Haiti in lieu of gifts to her son's birthday party. Others are forgoing drinking coffee or eating lunch out and donating the money they would've spent.
if your church is not doing anything collectively, donate through: http://www.churcheshelpingchurches.com/

We are also donating sanitation supplies/hygiene products to the boys' school that will be collected and donated to Haitian relief efforts. Maybe a school near you is doing the same?

The point is...a lot of little donations add up to A LOT!