Buckets of Hope for Haiti

Buckets of Hope for Haiti...what is it?

The Southern Baptist Association in connection with Baptist churches in Haiti are setting out to collect and deliver "Buckets of Hope". Basically they are plain white buckets filled with enough rice, beans, oil, flour, and peanut butter to feed a Haitian family for a week. We picked up the supplies for 6 buckets this week while visiting Margie's parents and put the contents together yesterday. All of the kids exclaimed afterword, "That was so fun.", "Can we do it again?" and "I want to do more...can we do 20?" It was so cool to see the kids being a part of reaching out and it is very cool to be able to reach out in such a tangible way.

For about $40 per bucket we can purchase a bucket, fill it with the required supplies, and send it to Haiti where it will be dispersed by pastors to their community. It will include a message and the knowledge that it is from Christians in America who love them and have prayed for them.

As part of the Missions Team at our church, we presented this today and had an overwhelming response. It is so exciting. We will collect funds for about 2 weeks and then make a trip to purchase all the items. We have discovered that we can fill a bucket for about $10 cheaper per bucket if we travel to Margie's parents town and shop the bigger stores. We also had a church member offer to see about getting his work place to donate the buckets which would leave us with even more money to fill more buckets. We are so proud of our church so readily being Christ's hands and feet.