If you're familiar with our annual Food Drop you'll know what I'm talking about. If not, try to picture this...
Once expenses are covered (someone has already paid for trucks, fuel, communication, supplies, leadership, facilities and administration of the process) volunteers line up and pass along boxes of food, from the back of one truck to the back of another. But as the boxes are passed down the line, each person reaches into the box and takes out some food. By the time the box reaches those for whom the food was intended, it has a lot less in it. Some boxes might even be empty.
If everyone volunteering to help assumed they could take whatever they desired, before they passed the box along, the people at the beginning of the line would be shocked! Unauthorized use of the food could undermine the entire effort. That's why we're sending the money we raise for Haiti to partners we trust. Sure they've got expenses! But they don't siphon money off the top of our donations and squander it in irresponsible and unauthorized waste.
As an international cry rages against the hundreds of thousands of dollars being lost and wasted through fraud and mismanagement, the money we're sending to Haiti is being used for the purposes we intend; it goes directly to our trusted partners on the scene. They are accountable, and I'm not sure about you, but that reassures me. When I give I want my donation to be used for the purposes I was promised it would be used.
All that to say, we've now given more than $30,000 for Haiti relief. And we're passing it on without ripping it off.
2 Corinthians 8:20 - He's rock-solid trustworthy. The churches handpicked him to go with us as we travel about doing this work of sharing God's gifts to honor God as well as we can, taking every precaution against scandal.
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