Missing Haiti

Stepping of the plane I saw the mountains, the reached far and wide and at their end their laid the beautiful ocean. It was an hour and a half drive to Canaan Orphanage but more than worth it. Haiti is still recovering from the earth quake, All of Haiti is hurting. In need of a Savior.
Canaan is a light of hope. The kids there are full of the Joy of the Lord! their living conditions are still hard but that doesn't seem to phase them a bit. They are beautiful and loving. Our team of almost forty had the oppurtunirty to do many projects as well as have a soccer camp and VBS for the kids during the week.
I served on the Nursery team and LOVED it! These babies were rarely held for long periods and not given much attention. Not because the people there don't want to, there is just so many others things that must be done, other than that these babies are healthy and strong. We enjoyed every minute that we got to be with them. The baby I had mos tof the time was Deborah, she was as sweet as she could be! She would fall asleep on my chest while I sang to her, and laughed so sweetly when I would pretend to nibble on her fingers.
The kids are also wonderful, they love to sing and dance! And they do both extremely well (they aught me a few things)! These kids are the future of Haiti! and what a blessing it is to know that they are so strong in their walks with Christ, we feel so blessed to have been able to encourage them and love on them.
Haiti needs Jesus. These people are poor, sick, starving, and dying every day, but their is an even greater neeed: Christ. And we want to bring them the good news! This past week there was also a Hiking team that went to a lot of the churches to hand out Bible and see if there was a need for antoher clinic around any of the churches. And there was. These churches are trying their best to reach their community with the gospel, we were able to give them Bibles in the native language: Creole! '
It is so obvious that God is doing great things in Haiti. But there is still a huge need! This trip opened our eyes, showing us God's amazing sovereignty and grace. We are so blessed and I pray that because of that we would bless those who are in need.
Please keep supporting and praying for Haiti!
This trip was incredible and God did amazing things. We are so thankful to be used by Him.
Thank you to all those who were used by God in supporting us! We could not be more grateful! We know that we could not have done this without God. We love you all and are so thankful you are a part of our lives!

Samantha Hatchett

CABIN WINNER!

CABIN WINNER!

We would first like to thank everyone who so generously supported us in the Mission trip to Haiti! We will be leaving in four days! We are so excited and ready to see what God is doing there!

The winner of the raffle is CC and Carol Howell! They will have a three day weekend at the Cabin in Tennessee. Congrats CC and Carol, we love you!

Please keep praying for us, that God would use us for His glory! We love you all!

Matthew & Sam

Matthew's 21st Birthday

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Haiti - On Mission

As many of you know we are going to Haiti this Summer with our church Open Door.
Last night we had small group at our house and got to hear about everyone's spring break. Many people in our small group had the blessing of going on Mission trips, it was amazing to hear ther stories. It also set our hearts a fire even more for Haiti. Our good friend Josh Perez went to Haiti during Spring break with some other men from our church, and it was a huge blessing to hear from him!
We are so ready to go! We cannot wait! There will be about thirty of us going to Haiti this Summer. Which means lots and lots of fundraising. Please be in prayers for this group during this time. That each of us would spiritually, physically, and financially prepared for Haiti.
If you would like to partner with us in prayer, encouraging letters, or financial support please get in touch with us! We would love for you to be a part of what we are doing!
Thank you for your constant love and care in our lives!
We love you!

The Hatchetts

My Small Group :)

Romans 8:17
"and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him"

To My Small Group,

I just want you all to know how much I love you. Matthew and I have been praying for each of you and burdened for you also. As I read this verse it reminded me that each of you are children of God, which means we're family! I love that! Erica, Katherine, Laura, Ashely, Nancy, Becca, Nessy you are my sisters!
This is such a blessing to me. Each of you have amazing gifts that God has blessed you with. Katherine, your gentle and quiet spirit (even though you are not always quiet :) ) reminds me of the Titus and how God tells us to be. you always make me smile :) Becca you make people feel at ease with your huge personality and how funny you are. :) Nancy you are a darling and smart person :) Erica you are so great and good humored, seriously I love the FFA so much more now! Always be you because it is so special :) Ashely, you are such a compassionate and beautiful person. I love the way you talk and how your willing to do anything GOd asks of you. Thanks for woking out with me :) Nessy, you have such a willing spirit to do anything for anyone, your giving heart is an amazing gift to me :) Laura, I love your eager heart and how much you love people.
Of course each of you have WAY more gifts than just that, your all so talented and I feel so blessed to have you as my sisters and in my small group!
Thank you for your willingness to serve Christ with all you have.

Never forget we are always here for you, we want to suffer with you and grow with you!

Love you all tons!

Sam

Missions!

Matthew and I have been praying a lot about going over seas this year to tell people about Christ. We have decided to join our church in a mission trip to Haiti! We are so very excited! There is an orphanage there, The Canaan Orphanage, that our church supports and is heavily involved with.
Savannah has lived with a couple this past semester that adopted a little boy from this orphanage.
Joseph (that is his name) has a very special place in our hearts and so does this orphanage.
As many of you know, Matthew and I want to work in an orphanage as missionaries one day. We love working with kids, children amaze us. They have such pure beautiful hearts and are eager to know about their Savior Jesus Christ. But there are so many places in the world where children will never here of Christ before they leave this earth, because of starvation, disease, and being homeless.
Matthew and I have a passion to help children in these situations, we fully believe in Christ's power to change their lives. Even if the children never remember our names we pray and hope that because of us they will know and remember the Lord's name. There is a huge need and we want to be used to ehlp in this need.
We believe one of the first steps to doing this is praying for these children, being burdened for orphans as Jesus tells us to be (James 1:27). We also believe that this takes action, this is where our mission trip comes in. We want to go and be used by God for the sake of the kingdom. God means everything to us, His mission means everything to us, our entire lives are about Christ, What a blessing! We want others to also know this blessing for themselves! We want to have children grow up and tell others about this incredible lifestyle!
We believe its time to take our passion to the field :) and we couldn't be more excited! We feel so so blessed that God will use us, and humbled that he has given us so much that we know we don't deserve.

So please pray for us! We need it and covet your prayers. Nothing blesses our hearts more than to think of you going before our LORD and Savior on our behalf. What a testimony to have that people pray for us. Thank you!
Also if you would like to support us financially or by sending us encouraging letters please send it to:
Matthew & Samantha Hatchett
307 W. Pine Ave.
Wake Forest, N.C. 27587

We love you all so much and are so thankful for you!

Matthew and Sam