I am thrilled to be writing this post. Around the time that I wrote a blog post about my desire to care more about what God cares about, to be more bold, my hubs, Weston, was invited by our church, the Flood, to accompany the Pastors of our church to Haiti. There they were going to work with Children of the Nations in locating a great spot for a new, much needed clinic. The task was to get to know the different communities and figure out where the clinic would serve the best. The biggest challenge was generating the $100,000 that was needed to build/start the clinic. Weston was asked to do photo and video during the trip so that they could show our church the communities they wanted to help and motivate them to donate. He went with them and had the trip of a lifetime.
When they returned I was amazed by our Pastors boldness when they announced to our church that they felt God’s urging that we as a congregation could earn $100,000. I was even more amazed when he said he thought we could do it in 3 weeks! He said come Easter Sunday they would announce to the church if we made our goal. While we were working towards our goal, the only person who would know our progress would be the financial dude. Our church is about 1500 people, most college age. That is maybe big or small depending what your experience with churches are,or the city you are in, to me it’s somewhat small. I was a little nervous that we might not be able to pull it off.
Every week leading up to the “big reveal” we saw more of Weston’s footage and heard another powerful story either from video or our Pastor Matt. On Easter Sunday we all watched a new “reveal” video in big anticipation to see if we reached our goal. There wasn’t a dry eye in the room. Even our friends who came to Easter Sunday with us and really have no emotional connection to our church cried like babies next to us. To say God moved in a huge way is an understatement. I would be honored if you watched the video below. And if you do please watch it to the very end. -M
Hope For Haiti – Celebration from FloodSanDiego on Vimeo.
Video and photos by Weston Boucher. Editing by Tim Eagerton and Matt Forray. Narrated by Charianne Fife.
Chills, tears and few words! Well done Flood. Well done Weston. 🙂 Way to be a vessel. Its so amazing to see the hand of God move in such amazing ways. What an incredible testimony.
xoxo
Lisa
M – I’m crying again…. 🙂 -K
OH MY GOSH!!!! Our God is so incredible, and He uses the local church in unreal ways. I am at the Compassion headquarters right now crying!! Amazing job Weston- God uses your talent for his kingdom. Keep it up Boucher’s, you guys rock. love, Kimee’s cousin
I dont think anyone can watch this one w/o needing a kleenex… WAY to GO!! My jaw dropped when I saw the end. I could write an entire page on this one. xo!
AMAZING!!! What a powerful video, of course I am crying! Nice job Weston, and how amazing that your church far exceeded its goal. God is GOOD.
Our church chose India and I gotta say I’m amazed daily with what God can do. We wanted to be able to help 2500 children and we we’re able to double that. I should have known that I would cry. This is amazing! And of course the photography was beautiful. We should never doubt that our God is amazing and works in our life every single day!
well needless to say, I am BAWLING. My desire is to be more bold and find more ways to serve. This is an awesome example of how God can use us to do great things right where we are, thats some pretty amazing stuff!