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Elim’s Adults Serve In Haiti

Dec 08, 2009

In August 2009, two of Elim’s adult clients were part of a mission team sponsored by Haitian Support Ministries to distribute HOPE Pack school supply kits assembled on the work floor of Adult Services. In third world countries, people with disabilities are usually given one of two fates: discarded at birth or warehoused in their homes, rarely, if ever, able to see the light of day. We did not know what to expect bringing our clients into that environment but what transpired was transformational – for our clients and the Haitian communities visited!

Elim’s clients were given the opportunity to serve as missionaries meeting the needs of those less fortunate which gave them a sense of personal self worth and dignity never before experienced. All of their lives they have BEEN SERVED and they relished the opportunity TO SERVE as an ambassador for Christ and to reach a level of their potential they never dreamed possible.

But the impact God had designed for this trip did not end there. The ministry leader in Haiti was driven to tears as he tried to comprehend the significance of Elim clients coming to minister and to pray for him and the children in the community he serves. The marginalized serving the marginalized – certainly counter to our cultural norms but isn’t that just like God to turn the world upside down to help us see value He places on ALL of His creation?!