Last Sunday, after church, Josh and I went to Starbucks and each got a coffee drink and split a muffin. My jaw dropped when the cash register rang up over $17 (Singapore dollars, but still!). It was a nice treat, since we don't do it often, but I couldn't help but think that there was probably a better way to spend $17.
Later that day, I came across this post on Yvette's blog which was a challenge to fight the consumerism of the season by giving one day's worth of Starbucks money to Dustin's ministry in Haiti. (For those of you who haven't been following Dustin's blog, I cannot recommend it highly enough. He is with a very small team of missionaries meeting the physical and spiritual needs of a village in Haiti.) Yvette suggested $5, but since we had just spent over three times that, I thought $20 was more in order.
Yesterday, I received an email from Dustin that read:
Thanks for the donation, it will go to the John Little project. He is a little guy who had malnutrition pretty bad, we want to help him get back on his feet.
Could there possibly be a better way to spend $20?
Some send, some go. We all have a part. What's yours?
To donate to Dustin in Haiti, please click HERE.
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Absolutely. The Haiti mission is a hard-core endeavor, and we also highly recommend supporting it. No "public relations" expenses, no staff overhead, no fluff and stuff; just a few people sacrificially giving of their lives to bring relief to some of the poorest of the poor in the world. Reading Dustin's blog, which he rarely has time to update, will sober you.
Thank you so much for being a part of this. Haiti was really been on my heart lately. Thanks for challenging others.
Repeat the sounding Joy
Repeat the sounding Joy,
Yvette
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