The Adventure you came for...

...may not be the one you get. I read that years ago in regards to adventure travel. The adventure I was preparing for (spiritually at least), since last September was some sort of mission trip from our church. The adventure I am getting, is that I feel lead to go to Haiti. Having spent the last six months training both my body, for a marathon, and my spirit, for ministry, I can't say no to this mission in Haiti.

February 18 I will be leaving with our medical team, organized by Global Aid Network, a development and disaster relief arm of Power To Change, for the area around Port-Au-Prince via Dominican Republic. Once we are there we will connect with Nehemiah Vision Ministry in Chambrun, which has been helping to meet the needs of Haitians since the quake (and doing development work for over a decade). Current Medical Teams have been seeing several hundred patients a day plus helping to feed many more. Two tent cities for Internally Displaced Persons are being assembled near Chambrun by the government and 100,000 people will be moved there. Most likely we will be serving at clinics in these tent cities.

In order for me to go to Haiti I need to raise $2500 to cover travel, meals & accommodation (all-inclusivein the Caribbean) and our ministry needs well in Haiti. If you would like to join into this relief effort for Haiti I would appreciate it. Donations over $20 will be receipted at the end of the year for income tax. Also, the Canadian government is matching your donation until February 12^th dollar for dollar to help in the recovery and development of Haiti.

The details of how to give:

• It is easiest for Global Aid Network to track giving to my specific need if you send a cheque payable to "Global Aid Network" directly to me and then I will deliver it to them. On the memo line of the check please write:
  "Haiti Relief Teams: GAI102TMD1" (The third letter is an "I" like India, do not put my name on it)
  
• If you prefer to send it directly to Global Aid, their address is:
  Global Aid Network, 20385 64th Avenue, Langley, BC V2Y 1N5(but it will cost you a stamp)
  
• By phone: call 604.514.2000 (Lower Mainland) or 1.800.531.1106 ask for donor services, say that you would like to make a gift to "Haiti Relief Teams: Source Number GAI102TMD1"
  
• Online: https://www.globalaid.net/give/
  1. I would prefer my gift to be used for: "Relief Teams Haiti"
  2. Order Notes: "GAI102TMD1: Mel Dick"
  
• From the US – make cheques (sorry checks) payable to Campus Crusade for Christ and mail it to:
  Travel and Project Services, Box 529, Sumas, WA 98295 This is a US post for box for a Canadian office, again please write in the memo line "Haiti Relief Teams: GAI102TMD1"
  
  

  
  

Thanks for any help you are able to give – and please remember to pray well I'm gone.

Mel

34915 Champlain Cres,Abbotsford, BC, V2S 5P3