Healing our land includes creating opportunities for Haitian women

PRAY FOR HAITI DAILY DEVOTION DAY 27
GLOBAL PRAYER INITIATIVE OF HAITIAN CHURCHES

Theme Verse 2 Chronicles 7:14
if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

Healing our land includes creating opportunities for women in Haiti to help rebuild Haiti after the earthquake. While a majority of Haitian women have shouldered the responsibility of meeting the needs of children, the elderly, orphans, homeless and thousands of newly disabled people, they are often overlooked when it comes to making policy in areas that affects the very people they are the “experts” in providing care for. It was also after an earthquake that Jesus used the women who served him to set policy. Matt 28:2 There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. Prior to Jesus, never before have a Rabbi used women to go tell the good news of God. A new policy was set and women were at the forefront of it. They were in essence evangelist. Matt 28:10 Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me.” The earthquake in Haiti created an opportunity to begin setting new policies. Women are the backbone of Haiti; they are the primary caretakers and primary provider therefore, they should be involved in making policy. As Jesus sets the example, Haiti should follow.

PRAY: Ask the Lord to open doors for the women of Haiti to have a strong voice in making policy.

ACT: The Church could mobilize women groups to begin to effect policy in their own little community and then involve other communities; and as it begins to bring positive changes, it will affect the nation.

With U4 Him

Mullery Jean-Pierre
Pastor, Beraca Baptist Church