Its Beginning To Look Like A New Year

A few more hours and it will be 2015, and where has the year gone? Seems like the time has just flown by. Sometimes don't you wish that things would just slow down a bit? But the world turns and time moves on, and each year rolls into the next.

For our team, this has been an amazing year. We organized, worked hard at our last medical mission trip, seeing more than 900 patients in the few day we were there. We worked at fundraising, doing several different events to earn money towards our goals. We worked at a lot of paperwork, and achieved our 501(c)(3) status. And our work has only begun.

2015 will present us with more opportunities to try to make a difference. Our next trip is scheduled for May, which is only 5 months away! In addition to our returning team members, we have 2 people very serious about joining us. Another is a maybe. And a few more are considering it. Wouldn't it be incredible to take a team of 10 or more? Think of the number of people we could help. But God knows what we need to do, and He will provide the crew. He always does.

We have talked about long term goals, about what we would like to be able to do later in the year. About fundraisers we plan to do, hope to do, and need to do to help raise the money necessary to achieve our goals. About events we hope to do in 2016, which we can hopefully repeat each year. About plans we have that will hopefully bring in more funds, so there will be more available to us to be able to help others.

Will it ever be enough? To that we ask these questions. Will need finally disappear? Will the children in Haiti have enough to eat, have clean water to drink, and have medicines to help heal their bodies? Will children here in this country have a safe home, clothes to wear, and be able to enjoy their childhood? Will children everywhere be able to sit down to the table, and find that there is plenty of good food to eat? We look forward to that day! When all children know love and happiness, have a safe home and plenty to eat. But until that day, than the answer is no, it will never be enough. And as long as we have the ability, we will continue to strive to earn as much as possible, and to be able to help as much as possible. We can't save them all, but we will work to save as many as possible. And with the help of our Heavenly Father, we will make a difference.