Haiti Medical Trip Photo Album (July 17-26, 2018)
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About Haiti Impact Trip: July 17-25, 2019
About Haiti Impact Trip: July 17-25, 2019
DONATIONS NEEDED FOR THE TRIP!
We would like you to join us this year in this exciting trip and hope you will consider donating supplies and resources toward the HAITI IMPACT TRIP. Here is the list of the items we are collecting:
- Backpacks
- Notebooks & Binders/Composition notebooks
- Pencils, pens, color crayons, erasers, glue sticks, rulers, pencil sharpeners, etc.
- Socks–any size for elementary to high school students.
*Our goal this year is to provide school supplies to 250 Haitian Children. We are currently accepting donations, and the deadline to provide any of the items listed above is Saturday, July 13, 2019.
We can be reached in a number of ways:
- By Mail
Hope for Today Outreach (HTO)
P.O. Box 7666
Port Saint Lucie, FL 34985
- By Phone: 772-985-0696
- By Email: hopefortodayoutreach@gmail.com
- Visit our website: https://hopefortodayoutreach.org/
Mesi ampil/Thank you very much!
Hope for Today Outreach Team
(Medical) Mission Trip to Haiti: July 17-26, 2018
(Medical) Mission Trip to Haiti: July 17-26, 2018
A team of individuals from Hope for Today Outreach and New Beginning International Ministries, and a team of nurses from the Treasure Coast (Florida) will be going to Haiti in July 17-26, 2018 for a mission trip.
Through collaboration with our active partners, we will provide the following resources to the Haitian people: medical clinics; distribution of school supplies and backpacks; distribution of food, clothing, and literacy materials; leadership and educational conferences; ministerial training; community evangelism and prayer walk, etc.
We will provide free medical consultation to families and children and be distributing first medical aids/over-the-counter medications. We will also provide hot meals, food, clothing, and shoes to Haitian families, and school supplies to Haitian students for the academic year, 2018-2019.
If you are unable to join us this year, we hope you will consider donating supplies and resources toward this mission trip; here are the list of the items we are collecting:
1. Backpacks
2. Notebooks & Binders/Composition notebooks
3. Pencils, pens, color crayons, erasers, glue sticks, rulers, pencil sharpeners, etc.
4. Socks–any size for elementary to high school students.
*Our goal this year is to provide school supplies to 400 Haitian families. The deadline to provide any of the items listed above is May 31, 2018. We will ship the items in the first week of June to get there on time.
You can contact me directly at celucienjoseph@gmail.com (Dr. Lou). We would love to hear from you. We can be reached in a number of ways:
• By Mail
Hope for Today Outreach (HTO)
P.O. Box 7353
Port Saint Lucie, FL 34985
• By Phone
772-985-0696
• By Email
hopefortodayoutreach@gmail.com
Have an Awesome day!
Celucien Joseph, PhD
President
Hope for Today Outreach Ministry
Dr. Joseph as Pastor of Jesus Center Community Church
Since today is Father’s Day, we would like to make a big announcement.
Dr. Celucien L. Joseph will be serving as the Lead Pastor of “Jesus Center Community Church” located in Port St. Lucie, Florida.
If you live in the Treasure Coast in Florida, it is both a pleasure and delight to invite you to the KICKOFF Worship Sunday: July 2 @ 9:00 AM-10:30 AM.
At Jesus Center, we make King Jesus highly exalted, admired, and greatly honored among all people. We accomplish that mission through Community Outreach and Discipleship: Serving, Loving, and Connecting people.
To learn more about Jesus Center, visit our website:
https://jesuscentercommunitychurch.com/
See you on Sunday, July 2, 2017 @ 9:00 AM for a great time of worship, fellowship, and friendship.
Happy Father’s Day to all the Fathers!
Medical Trip to Haiti: July 19-29, 2017
Medical Trip to Haiti: July 19-29, 2017
Dr. Celucien Joseph, President of Hope for Today Outreach, and a team of nurses from Port St Lucie will be in Haiti in July 19-29. We will do 3 different health care workshops: two in Cap-Haitian/Okap, and the other one in a little town called Port-Margot.
We will provide free medical consultation to families and children and be distributing first medical aids/over-the-counter medications. We will also provide hot meals and clothes and shoes to families in Okap.
We will also provide school supplies to underprivileged families for the academic school year, 2017-2018.
If you want to make a contribution toward this trip to support the Haitian families, here are the list of things we need:
1. Backpacks
2. Notebooks & Binders/Composition notebooks
3. Pencils, pens, color crayons, erasers, glue sticks, rulers, pencil sharpeners, etc.
4. Socks–any size for elementary to high school students.
*Our goal this year is to provide school supplies to 300 Haitian families. The deadline to provide any of the items listed above is May 31, 2017.
You can contact me directly at celucien_joseph@yahoo.com (Dr. Lou)
We would love to hear from you. We can be reached in a number of ways:
• By Mail
Hope for Today Outreach (HTO)
P.O. Box 7353
Port Saint Lucie, FL 34985
• By Phone
772-985-0696
• By Email
customers@hopefortodayoutreach.org
To God be the glory!
Dr. Celucien Joseph
President
Hope for Today Outreach
Medical Trip to Haiti: July 19-29, 2017
Medical Trip to Haiti: July 19-29, 2017
In this video presentation, Dr. Celucien L. Joseph (Docteur Lou”), President of Hope for Today Outreach, discusses his upcoming medical trip to Haiti in July 19-29, 2017. He also discusses the distribution of school supplies to Haitian families in this same trip.
Happy Listening!
Some Updates about Mission Trips to Haiti!
In this short Video presentation, Dr. Celucien Joseph provides some updates about upcoming mission trips to Les Cayes (Temporary Aids Relief trip in May 2017) and Port Margot (Medical Trip in July 2017) and other exciting news from Hope for Today Outreach.
Five Theses about God, Christianity, Jesus, slavery, and colonization
Five Theses about God, Christianity, Jesus, slavery, and colonization
- The God of the slave masters and European colonialists is not the true God of the Bible nor the God whose preferential option is for the poor and oppressed.
*The Biblical God is a God of love, freedom, and justice. God’s ultimate desire for every individual is to experience freedom, peace, and love—in relationship with him and in relationship with each other.
- The Jesus of the slave masters and European colonialists is not the real Christ nor the biblical Jesus.
*While “Christ” means “the anointed one” or “messiah,” the Christ was a historical person the same was Jesus was a historical figure. Interestingly, both early and contemporary Christians believe that “Jesus was/is the Christ/Messiah.”
- Colonial Christianity is a false religion and not true or biblical Christianity.
*Colonial Christianity enslaved people and did not liberate them from oppression and the labyrinth of slavery. Colonial Christianity was an oppressive religion that failed to promote equality, justice, human dignity, reconciliation, and shalom.
- Christianity as a religion was misused to enslave, subjugate, and colonize African slaves and other colonial subjects.
*One should not equate the use of a religion as a tool or instrument with the essence and teaching of that religion. Any system or institution could use any religion to carry out any desirable goals or intended objectives. This principle also applies to the misapplication of the name of God and the name of Jesus. Therefore, it is a logical fallacy to state that black people in the African Diaspora, whose African ancestors have been victims of colonial Christianity and Christianity of the slavers, should not become Christians or worship the God of their ancestors’ masters.
Black Christians do not worship a “dead Messiah,” but one who is living and has conquered death on the third day. Correspondingly, Black Christians do not follow a “blind faith,” but one that is grounded both in faith and reason, what many thinkers have phrased “reasonable faith.”
- One should separate the cultural construction of Christianity and biblical Christianity; in the same vein, one should not equate the cultural construction of the person and deeds of Jesus Christ in Western societies and history of thought with the biblical and Palestinian Jewish brown-skinned male named Yeshua.
Blessings in Christ,
Celucien L. Joseph
The Son Rises: On Some Daring Truths and Beliefs about Christianity
The Son Rises: On Some Daring Truths and Beliefs about Christianity
Christianity is probably the only major religion in the world that makes exclusive and absolute claims about its founder, essence, and distinctives. For many Christians, the major claims of Christianity are absolute, and their absoluteness invites no room for negotiation. As a result, because of the cardinal tenets of Christianity, Christianity is one of the most intolerant and non-inclusive (theologically and doctrinally) major religious traditions in the world.
In this brief essay, I would like to reflect on five basic claims about the Christian faith, which often get Christians in trouble with their non-Christian family members, friends, co-workers, and other individuals in their circle.
1. The Trinity. One of the cardinal doctrines of the Christian faith is the belief in the Trinitarian nature of God. Paradoxically, Christians confess that God is three in one, and that God exists eternally as Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. These three divine entities are one God, not three. Each one possesses equal nature, power, and authority. The Father is God. The Son is God. The Holy Spirit.
How could anyone in his or her right mind embrace such a theoretical and seemingly strange concept? Well, Christians believe exactly that there is only one God who has always existed as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. This God, Christians also claim, is the sovereign Creator and sustainer of all things. He created man and woman according to his own image so they could be in spiritual relationship with him and image him in the world. Christians also argue that God also created the galaxies. They also proclaim the universal love of the Triune God who always pursues his creation for relationship and intimacy.
2. Jesus Christ. Christians believe that the poor Palestinian Jewish male named Yeshua (“Jesus” as they say his name in English) who was born and lived in the first century Roman Palestine was God incarnate. Are you serious? Yep!
Christians insist that Yeshua was a historical person, and that God became a man through him—what they famously call the doctrine of the incarnation. By this theological idea, Christians seek to convey that the historical Jesus was “fully God” and “fully man” simultaneously. Doesn’t that seem mythical or legendary to you? Absolutely! However, Christians truly believe that.
My first impression is that all reasonable or logical individuals would love to inquire about which one of the three divine beings—as mentioned above in # 1—has undergone the incarnational experience. Was it the Father, the Holy Spirit, or the Son?
Christians maintain that God the Son has become the brown-skinned Yeshua HaMashiach (“Jesus the Messiah”), whom the Jewish people long-anticipated to come and deliver them from the Roman Empire and exploitation. Correspondingly, for many Jewish people in the first century, the much-anticipated Jesus the Messiah would come to restore the Jewish people to God and reestablish the kingdom of Israel as it were before the imperial invasion and occupation of the Romans.
Furthermore, Christians firmly believe that Jesus is the only authentic way to God, and it is he alone who can provide absolute and direct access to God. If an individual does not believe in Jesus for who he claims (God in the flesh and Savior of the world) to be and for what he has suffered on the Roman cross on behalf of all people—that is his sacrificial death has salvific value for the sins of all people— he or she will not see God. God will not accept anyone apart from Jesus and pardon anyone who willingly rejects Jesus and his atoning sacrifice. By this daring declaration, Christians reject the merits of the works and claims of other prominent religious leaders and founders such as Mohammed, Buddha, Confucius, and others. It is from the perspective of Jesus’s meritorious works and what he has accomplished redemptively in his life for all people that Christians have the urgency to tell their non-Christian family members, friends, and co-workers about the lordship of Jesus Christ so that they too can experience his transformative presence and reconcile with God.
3. The Virgin Birth of Yeshua. Perhaps, the strangest thing Christians—both first-century Christians [many of these individuals sacrificially risked their lives to follow this first-century Jewish Rabbi—instead of renouncing him—to the point of excruciating death] and contemporary Christians—believe is the notion that this poor and brown-skinned Palestinian Jewish boy named Yeshua was supernaturally conceived by God the Holy Spirit. They profess that Yeshua’s young mother Mary has not previously engaged in any sexual intercourse with men before she became pregnant with baby Jesus. Therefore, the baby in her womb was originated from God, not from Joseph, Mary’s future husband and Jesus’s adoptive or supposed father.
Isn’t this Christian belief in the Virgin birth of Yeshua archaic and anti-scientific? Christians would say No! While modern science, they insist, would reject the miraculous birth of the historical Jesus, the same God who created the world miraculously out of nothing is sovereign over human biology, global history, and human nature. They maintain that the miracle of the Virgin birth does not violate the laws of physics because it is grounded in reasonable faith.
4. The Bible. Christians profess that the Christian Bible—the 66 books that contain both the Old and New Testaments—is the only authoritative and inspired Word of God. First, the modifier “only” suggests that other religious books such as the Qur’an or the Vedas is not the Word of God. That does not mean that these religious texts have no divine value in them. For Christians, these books do in fact contain partial revelation of God; by contrast, the Bible is the only religious book that contains the “full” revelation of God, in the same way they maintain that Jesus is the final revelation of God and God’s full disclosure to the world.
Secondly, the qualifier “authoritative” connotes that the Bible, not other religious books, has its source in God. It is the concept of “divine inspiration” that makes the Bible authoritative. Nothing more! Nothing less! God has spoken through biblical writers who copied down precisely God’s intended words. With this logic, God’s words are also human words or human words became God’s words because of the divine push or influence. Therefore, the words inspiration and authoritative do not undermine the human aspect of the Biblical text. Nonetheless, the emphasis is on the “divine intent” of Christian Scriptures, an element that makes the Bible distinctive and special to those who read it and believe in what it says. It is from this perspective Christians could claim that the Bible communicates meaningfully the will and plans of God for his people and all people.
5. The Resurrection of Yeshua. Has any individual in human history died and raised from the dead before? Have you ever read in a textbook about such strange incident? Perhaps, you have read in the pages of a novel or creative work that a dead character came back to life triumphantly. But, not in a historical work!
Interestingly, Christians are persuaded that the resurrection of Jesus was a historical event and the watershed moment in human history. It changed the world. It transformed human destiny. In the same vein, Christians proclaim that the resurrection of Yeshua is the most significant event of the Christian faith. If the resurrection of Christ is not the cornerstone of Christianity, there is no Christianity and there is no Christian hope—both in the present and future. Christianity stands on the belief that Jesus was raised valiantly from the dead. Or Christianity fails on the conviction that Jesus did not raise from the dead, but his body decayed in the humble and eroded Roman tomb.
The resurrection of the historical Jesus has become a universal Christian conviction throughout human history that Christians sustain and proclaim it unapologetically both to followers of Jesus—as a remembrance and celebration of their shared faith—and non-followers of Jesus—to persuade them to embrace the salvific aspect of the cross of Christ. Jesus died and resurrected for the sins of the world. The historical Jesus (the Jewish Messiah) of the Roman Palestine was dead, buried, and resurrected in the third day.
What is the meaning of the resurrection of Jesus?
Why is Jesus important?
According to Christian belief, because of our wrongdoings, all people are culpable before God. Not only sin invades our hearts and minds, sin radically transforms our thinking process, and terrifically damages our relationship with God and with people. We suffer because of our own sins. We also suffer because of the sins of other individuals we love and know, and even those we are not acquainted with or know intimately. Even creation and the environment are affected because of our bad choices.
God has created us for relationship and love; He is utterly holy, transcendent, and abhors sin and our wicked actions. None of us can never reach his demand for holiness and perfect standard of purity. Therefore, God intentionally planned our deliverance through the cross and resurrection of Christ. In his love, he graciously delivered up Jesus for us as an offering, a gift, even a substitution for our sins.
In fact, a first-century Christian writer and theologian named Paul pronounced some bold assertions about the meaning of Jesus and the significance of his resurrection to a group of people, both followers and non-followers of Jesus, from whom some were skeptical about the historicity of the resurrection:
“Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, hin which you stand, 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day pin accordance with the Scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. 6 Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. 7 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. 8 Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me….
12 Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. 14 And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. 15 We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised. 16 For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised. 17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. 18 Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 19 If in Christ we have hope2 in this life only, ewe are of all people most to be pitied.” 1 Corinthians 14:1-7, 12-19
The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the hope for all who believe and trust him as their Lord and Savior. The resurrection of Yeshua affirms that death does not have the final word.
Jesus is the final word for the world, and he is the sustaining life and everlasting joy that death or any form of human oppression denies to all of us!
Happy Resurrection Day!
Rev. Celucien L. Joseph, PhD
President
Hope for Today Outreach
Update about Hurricane Matthew Relief Efforts
Update about Hurricane Matthew Relief Efforts:
We just received word this morning that the Cargo Ship, Monarch Queen, which is stationed in West Palm Beach, Fl, has not left America for Haiti because of a mechanical malfunction. As a result, we’re now informed that the projected departure is the second week of January, 2017. We’re going to make another mission trip to Haiti upon the ship’s arrival there so I can receive the Hurricane Matthew supplies and reliefs and distribute them to the people in Les Cayes.
Let’s hope and pray everything goes smoothly and speedily.
* We will keep you guys informed about the process.
Blessings,
Dr. Joseph
Hope For Today Outreach ("REMEMBER THE POOR"-- GALATIANS 2 :10) 
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