Looking into the New Year

We’re in full planning mode for 2025 at Haiti Awake. I spent a good portion of today thinking through logistics, thinking about how we’ve had to adjust this year, wondering how we will have to adjust in 2025.

The one thing that has been consistent since this all started in July of 2018 is that we’re constantly adapting to something new.

”We can’t do that anymore? Okay, let’s do this instead.”

”Oh! That opportunity is available again? Let’s pursue it.”

“Wait! That door that opened three days ago has closed again. Let’s pivot.”

Over the years, I’ve emphasized to staff the importance of being proactive versus reactive, how necessary it is to plan instead of respond. And so we have contingency plans for our contingency plans which are contingency plans for other plans . . . and on and on it goes.

It’s easy to get overwhelmed, to be discouraged. But here’s the truth: We’re still standing, by God’s grace. We never would have believed in April we would be able to say that in December. But it’s true.

We do not know what the days ahead will bring. There are sure to be hard times beyond what we anticipate, and there is sure to be joy far greater than we could possibly imagine.

But we hope to share with you at the end of 2025 that we’re still standing, by God’s grace.