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Author ERINN BORG Erinn Borg is the Cup of Cold Water Ministries short term mission trip scholarship recipient from 2017/2018. She traveled to Haiti with her High School Superintendent and other students from Parkview Christian Academy. Here's what Erin has to say about her experience as a learner in Haiti. I've been to Haiti twice with two drastically different experiences both of which made me fall even more in love with the country and its people. The first time I went to Haiti was the first time I had ever been out of the country and I was terrified but thoroughly excited to see what God had in store. We spent the whole time at and around Good Shepherd Orphanage. I and many others had our first street ministry experience and every single one of us ended up in tears as we witnessed the love of God in people who lived such different lives than us. I fell in love with our translators and the children at the orphanage, many of whom spoke very little to no English, and I promised myself that I would be back. This year we almost didn’t get to go to Haiti, there just weren’t enough people interested and me, Hannah, and JD (my team mates) cried together at the news that Hannah and I would not get to be reunited with the people that we missed so dearly and that JD would not get to be introduced to these precious people. Shortly after, however, my team leader and high school superintendent, Ms. Benson, came to the three of us and said that if we still wanted we could go with her but it would be drastically different from what we had experienced before; we all agreed immediately. When we got to Haiti, as warned, everything was different. We spent only a day at Good Shepherd with another group and then we were off to the mountains to help at Alpha and Omega School. Even though we were warned, Hannah and I struggled at first with adjusting but quickly realized that we couldn’t be selfish, we were not in Haiti for us we were there for God to do His work through us. Once we embraced that truth we fell in love all over again with a different side of Haiti and with new people. We saw the city life our first time in Haiti, but it was the rural life we were introduced to the second time. On our last day Ms. Benson decided she wanted us to see two other sides, the richest and poorest of the country so we had a balanced view of the nation we had been spending our week in. We spent the whole day driving and what we saw was breathtaking. I'm grateful Ms. Benson gave us this opportunity. If I were to take one lesson from that day it would be this: God touches everything, Christianity is not just for the U.S.A., just because others' lives are different and plagued with different problems does not make them less beautiful. We are made in God’s image and that image is amazing whether it is poor or rich, sick or healthy. That is why I go to Haiti, because I see God there. He loves those people and I too have come to love them. Thank you to Cup of Cold Water Ministries for the financial donation to help ME GO where God called me to serve this summer 2018.
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