The Watsonian (blog)

There are two things in my head and heart right now:

Tomor­row, right before 5pm, will mark one week since the 7.0 mag­ni­tude earth­quake hit the poor­est nation in the west­ern hemi­sphere, Haiti.

In less than 6 days, we will be hav­ing our first gath­er­ing of Gen­e­sis Church at Tim­ber Lakes Ele­men­tary in Avalon Park/Waterford Lakes in the City Beau­ti­ful, Orlando.

One is very heart­break­ing.  The other is very excit­ing.  Both are oppor­tu­ni­ties for you and I to serve and give and pray.

If you fol­low my writ­ings at all, you know that @mrskatewatson and I are very pas­sion­ate about meet­ing the God of the Oppressed, Jesus the Mes­siah, in the mid­dle of the pain and suf­fer­ing in the world.  We feel this is where we are specif­i­cally called and truly what the Church is called to do.

So nat­u­rally, our heart­beat is to be on the ground in the nation of Haiti serv­ing the poor­est of the poor in the great­est time of need.

How­ever, this is not where we feel God lead­ing us.

Our call­ing is to be here in the com­mu­nity of Avalon Park in Orlando to be a part of Gen­e­sis Church.  Our call­ing is to cre­ate an envi­ro­ment where kids come and are excited about learn­ing the Big Story that God has writ­ten and is writ­ing for us.  Our call­ing is to serve, to give and to lead.

But our hearts are still break­ing daily for the peo­ple of Haiti…

So we have setup a web­site to donate, keep informed and see how you can get involved in our work in Haiti…

Gen­e­sis & Haiti