Every time I try to write about my experience in Haiti building homes from rubble, I don’t even know where to start. Words fail me.
The Go Now Missions team in Haiti.
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How can I describe the sights and smells? How can I describe the love God placed in me? How can I tell what a wonderful, beautiful, life-changing week I had in Haiti? I just can’t do it justice.
The days were spent with sweat dripping down my face, using all of my strength to serve, ignoring the overbearing heat and keeping my eyes on Jesus. Every pile of rubble I shoveled, every bucket I lifted, every nail I hammered was for God—to further his kingdom.
It is truly amazing how easy it was to fall into that way of serving. Looking back, it didn’t feel like hard work at all. It all seemed too easy when I was basking in God’s strength and his glory. I was being soaked by his blessings, and I am forever changed by it.
God showed me a glimpse of what my life will be about. With my eyes set on Christ, I will be able to do all things. He might lead me to a foreign land or right down the road. But either way, I know that his future for me will be a million times better than anything that I could come up with myself.
Brittany Rupp, a student at the University of Texas at Arlington, recently served on a one-week mission trip to Haiti with Go Now Missions .
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