Help For Haiti

Wow. What an awesome showing of people wanting to help this past Sunday at Life Church. We are working with the NC Baptist Association to create Buckets of Hope for Haitian earthquake victims and on Sunday we had fifty 5 gallon buckets available for anyone who want to fill it full of the items needed for it. I was amazed to see people pouring out into the lobby afterward just scooping up all the buckets. We ended up being at least 20 buckets short! We did get 50 more this week and will have them available this Sunday as well.
I was really overwhelmed by how many people wanted to help fill these buckets. We planned on starting with 50 buckets to start and see what the response was. To see us well over 20 buckets short was just awesome. I took it as a showing of how generous God's people can and should be. This is being the church and not talking about being the church. We are all stepping forward to say we will help those in need. We will help the widows and the orphans. We will send more than just our prayers, which are powerful, but we will also send our lives, our resources and our support to help our fellow man.
I am proud of the church Life Church is becoming not because of anything I've done, but because of what God has done. His Word does not return void and to see the compassion of his people in action is awesome.
These buckets are just a drop in the bucket of what needs to be done in Haiti and we are committed to being an active part of helping restore, love and show compassion to the people of Haiti.