Glimpses of the Unseen

Seventh and finale in a series.

Patti & Brad Bosworth



2 Corinthians 4:16-18

2018 Sixes/St Andrew Haiti Missionaries

We Americans are impatience experts, anxiously anticipating impending failure that we let the present slip away and with-it God’s divine blessings for us go un recognized. This cannot be said of our Haitian brothers and sisters whom we attend to. They come early in the morning, line up, sit quietly, wait patiently for a moment of our time to build upon relationships begun years before. In addition, they receive a touch of physical comfort from educative advice, managed medication and vision enhancement. Their patience, their lives, their very presence defines perseverance of hope uncompromised by their circumstance.


Yes, their harsh environment and living conditions play havoc with their outer person, but if you join them on Sunday for worship you will find a vibrant Body of Christ rich in an abundance of serenity. They live admirably noble lives. These Haitians’ focus is on the presence of God in their life which no circumstance can shadow. What visitors see in Haiti, is a literal wasteland with refuse strewn along every street, buildings still crumbling away from an earthquake many years before. It is a material rebuilding that never becomes finished. But these people we see are whole and complete in their unbridled love of Jesus and the faith that accompanies that affection. In other words, they have not fixed their eyes on the seen but dwell instead on the eternal Love of the Father, or that which is unseen.


The unseen in Haiti this week has included the broken English of one of our local translators as he read from the Gospels and delivered to us a heartfelt devotion before we started the day. It has been a young deaf school girl who showed us how to sign- I- love -you- last year, running to greet us with hugs and sounds of joy. Our team was being renewed day by day like when we heard voices in exuberant song from school children echoing in corridors or floating through barren fields. These glimpses of His eternal grace are what keeps us coming back year after year.


Papa, as we raise our arms with hands opened wide, lift us up into your eternal glory just for today. Amen



Patti and Brad Bosworth 
October 2018










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