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Hi, I”m Ben from Overland Park, KS, I’m not part of any specific group, I have traveled to Haiti with my wife Brittany and our friend Shekah.  I’m 34 years old and I become a Christian at the age of 9, so at times I get into a been there done that rut in my life as a Christian.  Being in Haiti is one of those “mountaintop” experiences in the Christian life.  The first couple of days are always tough and then you get adjusted to everything that surrounds you and you really lose track of time.  Early in our time here we had the opportunity to join up with the Mount Zion group from North Carolina and head out to La Baie des Mostiques (The Bay of Misquitos).  It is  a totally different world than what is going on at the main campus in Saint Louie.  It is a very rural village and I don’t believe I saw a vehicle there the entire time we were there.  The main task we were charged with was to hold a health clinic at the local church – we had the children from the village come and we measured the circumference of their heads, arms, height, and weight.  The point in this is to assist the missionaries there, Grant and Natasha, learn more about the community and what needs are most pressing.  It broke my heart that the kids were five and under and the heaviest child weighed forty pounds, and the smallest was in the teens.  This experience just reminds me that this does not need to be an out of the ordinary experience, but our lives, regardless of where we are, should be spent helping others.  At the time I kind of wondered what good we were doing, but I know that we are just planting seeds – the work we did will lay a basework for all the work that will take place there.  I spent a few years of my life working with another non-profit ministry that builds houses in Mexico – and that was easier for me because it was so tangible – you work for 4 days and have a house at the end of the week.  Here, it is not like that.  You spend your time here hugging children, smiling at people, and loving on people to the glory of God, very worthy, but not as tangible.  It is a process that this mission has been working on for over thirty years.  So my hope for myself and others who have this expereince is to not let it be the moutaintop, but be a push back to what we should do, and do whatever it is we can do to bring glory to God and help those God places in our path each day.

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