When disaster strikes on the magnitude of what is happening in Haiti right now, we want to respond in a meaningful way.  For a new church without a lot of resources, thinking of how to respond properly can become overwhelming.  But the truth is, there are a lot of great ministries and organizations with the infrastructure in place to get much needed relief to Haiti in the coming months and years. We as the church can each help a great deal by giving our resources to these efforts.

I’m sure everyone has seen various places to give to the relief efforts over the last week, as they have been hard to miss. Desiring God has a great list of charities to give to, and we’d also recommend the Baptist Global Response, which is a humanitarian relief organization of the SBC.

We’d like to call particular attention to Churches Helping Churches, a relatively new initiative by Mark Driscoll and James MacDonald. As the Church both local and universal, we are called to care for the broken and hurting of the world both physically and spiritually. Village Church believes that the Church is God’s plan A for being the hands and feet of Jesus and bringing the Gospel to the world. Bringing relief to Haiti should be a Gospel effort for the believer.

To that end, and realizing that various humanitarian relief is flowing to Haiti right now from many sources, we are especially burdened to help equip the Church of Haiti to spread the Gospel to their people. This means getting much needed supplies to the churches of Haiti, for their own help and so they can have the resources to be the hands and feet of Jesus to other Haitians. Many churches have been devastated in this disaster by the loss of leadership, facilities, and resources. Helping to equip and rebuild these churches will strengthen the infrastructure of Haiti as local churches provide vital and needed humanitarian services. At the same time, helping local churches is a way to support our brothers and sisters in Haiti and their Gospel mission. Click below to give: