we create job opportunity women breaks for people build housing here
we working with people trained in agriculture we make our own garden just to
feed the children we fed over 1000 children every single day because one person changed my life
jesus told a parable about a man that was traveling down a dusty road
when he was attacked and beaten by bandits they left him on the ground almost dead in
a little while a priest came by he saw the man looked at him from a distance and thought boy
he needs a miracle he's in bad shape i'll pray for him he kept on going another man came by
a levite he did a little better he went over to him looked at him checked a man out he felt
badly for him thought this is really unfair i hope somebody helps him went on down the road
a third man came by a samaritan like the first two he thought boy he needs a miracle
but he took it one step further and said you know what i am his miracle i'm at the right place at
the right time god has put him in my path so i can be a healer so i can be a restorer so i can give
him a new beginning he immediately went to the man got down on his knees and began to care for him
he gave him water from his canteen and took his scarf off and wrapped it around his wounds
he gently lifted him and put him on his animal he held him as they walked miles and miles to the
next city he went to the inn the hotel and paid the owner for two night stay he said you take care
of him give him anything he needs let him stay as long as he wants i'll be back in a few days and
i'll pay for any extra charges my question is which man are you it's easy to get too busy
think i've got enough problems of my own i don't have time to help others
no helping others could be the key to seeing your situation turn around those people you see
that need encouragement need a ride need you to give blood need help accomplishing their dreams
those are opportunities for you to go to a new level and here's the thing you never know what
kind of miracle you're setting into motion one act of generosity can change one life one day and a
thousand more a decades later that's what happened in the case of my friend lex edmy here's his story
when i was a kid i was growing up in very poor family
we live in very small mud house my mom always got up three o'clock in the morning
she go out to find food and sometimes if i don't find anything a missionary came to
our town she took my picture and she went to america and then looking for a sponsor for me
only thing i knew she from michigan
she sent money through this ministry to pay for my education i'm becoming a teacher
and for five years i've been teaching in haiti and then i went to america to find better life
i went to work one night i heard a voice said lex i want you to go back to haiti
to do exactly what my sponsor from michigan did for me lex heard the voice of god and obeyed he
returned to haiti with his wife renee and begin his mission a mission of hope we started out with
a school and a church plant the school we signed up 365 kids for preschool through grade three and
each year that we were here we added a grade to it until we got all the way through high school
today we have pastors doctors engineering hundred pushing our students past the national exam
is spectacular for us we support our students to go to college
most of people who work in our school right now are students who graduate from high school went
to college and come back work for missional hope when i was a missionary of school i got a sponsor
who helped me with my school scholarship and after that my sponsor still helped me
with the nursing school now i'm working like a nurse and butchenary coordinator
we now have medical clinic a dental clinic evangelical radio station we have feeding programs
in the schools we do outreaches we do mobile clinics and we've done a lot of construction
mission involves creating economic impact in the community mission of hope helped three other
organizations to come to gunguav and give out more than 400 jobs we create job opportunities
we break for people build housing here we working with people trained in agriculture
we make our own garden just to feed the children we fed over 1 000 children every single day
because one person changed my life the sponsor that sent money for my husband to go to school
we don't know who she was and to think of the impact that she made in his life first of all but
now in literally thousands of people's lives and i just i telling people i'm just kellyanne for her
i carry him for her and i will do it until the day my jesus said it's time to go home
who would have imagined one lady's decision to sponsor a child in haiti could result in
an entire community being changed lex's obedience to do the same has generated over 400 jobs created
educational opportunities and a micro economy in his own city and because of their obedience
when haiti was struck by an earthquake in 2010 lex and renee were prepared to help
after the earthquake my house was destroyed i spent three months living at mission of a
church and they give us food they give us clothes but me and my mom and my twin sisters
we stayed there and it was a lot of people stay there when the earthquake struck the u.n
choose to have mission of hope as a partner to fed all gunguav area
we distribute over 600 000 ton of food we partner with samaritan post we build
over 300 temporary housing for the community we do mobile clinic the u.s marines
is stationed here housing him here in a mission base here i saw so many people come to christ
after the earthquake one person's gift changed lex's life now he's changing the lives and
destinies of an entire community you may say joel i only have a little bit to give a little
time a little money that little bit can't do much friend it's not about how much it's about choosing
to live to give it's hard to come back to you know the way the poverty is in this country but when i
remember what my sponsor did for me i came back you never know how far your gift will go
you never know how somebody life can change just like my life when you give you bless behind as
much you ever imagined at tbn our mission is to use every available means to reach as many
individuals and families as possible with the life-changing gospel of jesus christ thank you
for helping make the gospel of grace go around the world without you we couldn't do it god bless you