Building a Generation of Hope
| Using the universal language of sport to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the cities, towns and provinces and on to the ends of Haiti. |
| The Alliance of Christian Athletics of Haiti |
| Haiti's Premier Youth Soccer Network |
| “He got up and rebuked the wind and said to the waves, “Quiet! Be still! Then the wind died down and it was completely calm” Mark 4:39 NIV |
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Bailout!!
Bailout, now there’s a term we’ve all heard too much of lately. Along with
stimulus package, are becoming the definition of this page in our history. A billion
here, a few trillion there; it all seems surreal. Haiti’s president, René Preval, met
with Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, asking for a stimulating bailout of his own
to which her response was characterized by in one article I read "Read my lips
No more, No more aid package"
“Haiti is no stranger to desperate times”, Préval said in a interview, "I believe we
are at a very serious turning point," "we can either win or lose." He was asking for
as much as $100 million dollars in economic assistance to fill his nation’s
budget gap as fears mount that Haiti could slide back into anarchy. The long-
troubled country was on its way to normalcy when rising food prices, the
economic crisis and a series of devastating hurricanes left it reeling, again.
I remember another bailout in history; a storm raged all around, the sea swelled
and swamped in to a tiny vessel. Men battled the elements until all seemed lost.
Exhausted, they went to went to their leader who had seemed disinterested in
their plight until then and pleaded, “don’t you care if we drown” Most would expect
his response to be to get up and tether the sails and start bailing out the boat, but
instead he spoke to the storm, “Quiet, be still,” in the same way one speaks to a
child who is refusing to take a nap. Then he turned to his friends and asked, “why
are you afraid, what happened to your faith?”
Like those sailors in the 4th chapter of Mark, maybe we are looking for the wrong
kind of bail out. Préval is looking for an “uncle” to come along and help Haiti
rebuild. We as a nation arelooking for someone to come along and save our
retirement funds and help us keep our jobs and other wise return things neatly to
the status quo. Christ offers to calm the real storms of life, the ones that rage in
our hearts and souls. This is the bailout the Church offers the world and what we
offer the people of Haiti though sports outreach. Talk about a stimulus package!
stimulus package, are becoming the definition of this page in our history. A billion
here, a few trillion there; it all seems surreal. Haiti’s president, René Preval, met
with Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, asking for a stimulating bailout of his own
to which her response was characterized by in one article I read "Read my lips
No more, No more aid package"
“Haiti is no stranger to desperate times”, Préval said in a interview, "I believe we
are at a very serious turning point," "we can either win or lose." He was asking for
as much as $100 million dollars in economic assistance to fill his nation’s
budget gap as fears mount that Haiti could slide back into anarchy. The long-
troubled country was on its way to normalcy when rising food prices, the
economic crisis and a series of devastating hurricanes left it reeling, again.
I remember another bailout in history; a storm raged all around, the sea swelled
and swamped in to a tiny vessel. Men battled the elements until all seemed lost.
Exhausted, they went to went to their leader who had seemed disinterested in
their plight until then and pleaded, “don’t you care if we drown” Most would expect
his response to be to get up and tether the sails and start bailing out the boat, but
instead he spoke to the storm, “Quiet, be still,” in the same way one speaks to a
child who is refusing to take a nap. Then he turned to his friends and asked, “why
are you afraid, what happened to your faith?”
Like those sailors in the 4th chapter of Mark, maybe we are looking for the wrong
kind of bail out. Préval is looking for an “uncle” to come along and help Haiti
rebuild. We as a nation arelooking for someone to come along and save our
retirement funds and help us keep our jobs and other wise return things neatly to
the status quo. Christ offers to calm the real storms of life, the ones that rage in
our hearts and souls. This is the bailout the Church offers the world and what we
offer the people of Haiti though sports outreach. Talk about a stimulus package!