Lifelines Outdoor Ministry - Acadia Leadership Summer Project

Over 200 students and staff from the Northeast are spending their summer around the world serving with Campus Crusade for Christ on a Summer Project.  Learn more in our prayer letter:  May 2010 Freeman Update

Campus Crusade in Haiti - What will we be doing?

All 150 students/staff (50 per session) will live on the Chambrun property along with 20-25 Haitian students, some of whom will serve as translators.  Each day teams will go out to various ministry sites.  Regardless of the work our students do, they will be shoulder to shoulder with the Haitian students.

Work/Ministry our student teams will engage in:

• Food and hygiene kit distribution
• Jesus Film showings – evangelism in the surrounding villages
• Assisting doctors, nurses, and pharmacists in the medical clinic; sharing Christ with those who wait to see a doctor or nurse
• Setting up solar and wind powered water purification units
• Complete infrastructure (tents, cots, latrines, Mercy Chefs kitchen, as needed) for teams that will follow (The US Campus Ministry is preparing for at least a 3-5 year presence in Haiti.)
• Evangelism and discipleship with college students and outreaches to universities (some schools are beginning to hold classes in tents)
• Working with Haitian families, assisting them in recovery and ultimately to function without reliance on aid
• Building shelters, one of the greatest needs, as most Haitians cannot or will not return to their homes

To learn more check out the Hope for Haiti site.

Brief History of Campus Crusade in Haiti

On 12 January there were 90 Haitian college students involved with CCC.  Twenty were killed in the earthquake, which claimed the lives of 230,000 others.  Every university in the country was damaged and closed.  Haiti CCC also has its own humanitarian arm, Nehemiah Vision Ministries, which owns 35 acres in the Chambrun area 12 miles north of Port-au-Prince (PAP) with a church, school of 350 students, an orphanage of 15 children, warehouse being used as a medical clinic, and 10K sq. ft. hospital just starting to be built.  Poor, non-electric villages of mud homes dot the area of Chambrun.  

The long-range plan includes a model community/area with the Gospel continually going out, people coming to Christ, churches being planted, children educated and sent to college, medical services provided, job training being done, healthy local economy being created. Esperandieu Pierre is Crusade’s National Director in Haiti.  

We plan to partner with Food for the Hungry and a network of churches known as SKDE, a Creole acronym for Sant Kretye pou Developman Entegre (Christian Center for Integrated Development).  This network was started by Guerino St Simon, the National Director for Harvest (Rekot).

Campus Crusade in Haiti - Team 1 leaves for Haiti June 1st!

Team 1 leaves for Haiti June 1st!  Altogether, over 150 will go this summer!

Our advance work will soon be put to the test as the first team of 50 collegians lands in Haiti in a few days.  They will share the Good News while doing Good Deeds among the victimized and earthquake-ravaged Haitians, enabling them to participate in their own restoration.  Applications have poured in from all over the US since Crusade’s leadership disseminated news of the potential for participation in God’s work in Haiti.  These intrepid students – a Fulbright scholar from Kansas, the Panhellenic President from the U of Idaho, 3 midshipmen from the Naval Academy, 5 Korean students, students from Rice, UC Berkeley, USC, Northwestern, Biola, Duke, UMass, the Berklee School of Music, and elsewhere – represent every region of the country!  

Pray with us that God would change lives in Haiti this summer.