iWitness

Haiti Global Impact Trip Participant Chris Dias:  "Everyone has seen pictures of Haiti and what the earthquake has done to buildings there, but actually seeing and witnessing the aftermath of it first hand makes it so real. I would walk through the streets speechless, and if you know me at all, I’m rarely at a loss for words..." CLICK to finish.

Lebanon Global Impact Trip Participant Darla Bardine: "I have worked with Christian organizations before, but never before have I worked with a Christian organization that truly allowed the Holy Spirit to direct their work like Heart for Lebanon does..." CLICK to finish.

Lebanon Global Impact Trip Participant Aisha Hussain: "I can still smell the fresh breeze of the Mediterranean and the feel of the crazy traffic in Lebanon. Saying "I miss it" is a big understatement. Of the three languages I speak, none of them can summarize the healing and beautiful witnesses of God's beauty on the streets of downtown Beirut..." CLICK to finish.

Urbana 2009 Participant Stephen Falke: "Urbana 09 was a wonderful experience and time of learning through which God spoke to me and taught me so much.  This experience combined with a few other recent events in my life, constitute what I sincerely consider to be a turning point in my life, and I do not use that phrase that lightly. ..."  CLICK to finish.

Lebanon Global Impact Trip Participant Bridget Wagner: "I'll share what impacted me the most. Home visits. WOW! These people have nothing and have such horrible stories but they still laugh and are full of joy. That, paired with the H4L staff there is no way you could leave and not be inspired!..." CLICK to finish.

Lebanon Global Impact Trip Participant Beth Lindley: "While she tried to control them, the tears flowed down her cheeks. After she and her husband had received a letter threatening to kidnap their son also, they had made a decision to leave Iraq without knowing where their daughter was or even if she was still alive. My heart broke for her..." CLICK to finish.

Lebanon Global Impact Trip Participant Fred: "Working with the Iraqi refugees, seeing the injustice and hearing about the horrible acts of people against fellow human beings, all highlighted the feeling of being overwhelmed by the presence of evil..." CLICK to finish.

Lebanon Global Impact Trip Participant Ray Patten: "There is a saying I once heard that I always find instructive - Do not pray for God to bless what you want to do, but rather, find out what God is already doing, and do that, it is already blessed.  The work of Heart for Lebanon is being blessed by God.  It is blessed by..." CLICK to finish.

Kenya Global Impact Trip Participant Elizabeth Hutchinson: "God promises that we are his workmanship, created to do good works which He prepared before the foundation of the earth for us to do. That’s pretty heady stuff, which my day to day life belies so often.  When my feet hit the floor each morning, this isn’t the first thing I think about. But…it is a true statement whether I feel it or not." CLICK to finish. 

Kenya Global Impact Trip Participant and FCC staff Andy Gingrich: "Betwen those 15 hours in Amsterdam and on the last leg of my journey home, my mind moved in and out of reflection on what truly was impressed on me during my brief stay in Kenya. Globalization is truly incredible . . ." CLICK HERE to finish.

FCC member Chris Doermann and his trip to Senegal: "Come, let me tell you a tale of intrigue, lust, and deceit! Ok, there's really none of that, but there is a lot of cool stuff which I hope can be as inspiring to you as it was to me. The purpose in writing this is to educate and inspire you as to what God is doing elsewhere in the world . . . " CLICK HERE to finish.

On November 10 Mark Johnson and Alan MacDonald set out for the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola in response to a request from Warden Burl Cain for help to get the broadcast signal of the inmate run radio station to death row.  They picked up former FCC member Bill Hineman in Nashville and spent two days working at the prison.  Here’s a brief account from Mark.
"The mission to Angola was a huge success.  On Wednesday evening we completed the work of installing the system at Death Row." CLICK HERE to read more.

A Word from Brad Prescott, IT volunteer to the Dominican Republic: "Wow!  What an experience!  Having spent a couple of years living and studying (and even working a little bit) in Mexico, I thought I might have an idea about what I was in for... and I knew enough to realize that it would not be totally predictable.  And my lovely wife being from South America (Peru), I think she thought she knew what I was getting into better than I did.  We were both wrong :-)" CLICK HERE to read more.

 
A Word from Chris Green, recent Hungary Worship Trip musician (drums/sound)"I was the one member of the team that had never been on a mission’s trip before. I’ve never been outside of the continental US before this, so I got to experience many new things." CLICK HERE to read more.