Having A Glocal Vision-Part 1: Praying

Have you heard about the situation in Haiti? About all the devastation and lost lives? Have you ever wondered if there was a way to help? Well, in Sunday School, at my church, we took a break from Genesis and looked at a way to help the situation in Haiti. We looked at three important things. Why should we help those people? you ask. Let's look at Acts 1:8- "But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth." God wants us to have a glocal vision. Huh? you say. Having a glocal vision consists of having a . . .

• GLOBAL VISION: God wants us to spread His Gospel to the whole world. He wants us to pray for the whole world. He wants us to give to the whole world. He wants us to have a global vision for Him.
• LOCAL VISION: We can start by helping out locally. We can pray for our neighbours or our friends or our mayor or our teacher or our homeless people. There's so many people we can pray for locally. We can also give to local charities or help out at a local soup kitchen. We can evangelize even to our own community. You don't have to go to a faraway land to be a missionary. You can start in your own backyard.
  

Today I'd like to focus on just one thing that we can do to help the situation in Haiti: pray. Praying is the best thing we can do right now. God has the whole world in His hands and He listens to His people's cries. We can take the situation in Haiti to God. God loves you and will listen to you. He loves the people in Haiti, too.

WHAT SHOULD I PRAY FOR? Well, you can pray for the churches in Haiti. So many churches collapsed on their pastor and parishioners. Missionaries have gone to Haiti right now to share the gospel with many Haitians. You can also pray for the relief volunteers that have poured into Haiti from all over the world. Pray that they don't get sick. Pray that they would show God's love in their actions. Pray also for the survivors. Nearly every single survivor lost loved ones. Pray that God would reveal His might, His love, and His compassion to the survivors and to all others in Haiti and around the world.