Lauren Phillips

Meet Lauren Phillips, our sweet Texan sister
 joining the team in Haiti this June!

Lauren with  God's precious children in Haiti. 

Lauren's love for the Lord is evident in her fun loving and energetic spirit! 

Lauren holding an adorable boy in Haiti. 

Lauren graduated from Crowley High School in 2007 and The University of Texas at Arlington in May 2011. Currently, she works as a Neonatal Intensive Care Nurse at Harris Hospital Fort Worth, and loves her job. One thing Lauren especially enjoys about her job is that she has the opportunity to pray over her sick babies everyday. Lauren says, "There is no greater joy than to be able to come home and say I had the opportunity to save a life today!" The love and prayer she shares with the sick babies in Texas extends to the edges of the earth; Lauren's ministry has taken her from the comfort of her Texan home to care and pray for the widowed, orphaned, and poverished people around the world. 


Lauren started mission work at a young age. When she was 12 years old, she took her first mission trip to Costa Rica and fell in love with serving those in need. At the age of 14, God called Lauren to serve overseas. Lauren has traveled to Australia, Africa, and Haiti since her early teenage years.  She spent the summer of 2011 in Africa living with a pastor and his family, and explains that she has never experienced poverty like that before. It was in Africa that God opened her eyes to the lost, poor, lonely, orphaned, and widowed in our world. 


The June mission trip to Haiti will mark Lauren's 5th time going to Haiti!! Currently, Lauren is a  Missions Director at Calvary Church Fort Worth, and she just started leading teams to Haiti through her parish's connections. Lauren's path crossed with Healing Haiti in 2011 when she was on a mission trip with World Orphans. She met my uncle Tom, who took her and several of her missionary friends on a water truck run in Cite Soleil and to the Home for Sick and Dying Babies. Lauren reports that the water truck experience forever changed her life. She says, "Their bucket of water was their hope for living one more day!! God definitely broke my heart that day for what breaks His." The absolute poverty witnessed in the slums of Cite Soleil truly is a heart breaking experience. 


Lauren's dream and hope is to do mission work full-time one day!! She is just waiting for God's time and direction. 


I am truly blessed to be able to serve by Lauren this June. My uncle, Tom, introduced me to Lauren on Facebook a year ago.. and in January of 2012, Lauren contacted me while I was in Haiti. She sent me encouraging messages and prayers. It was at that time God wrote it on her heart to come on my June Haiti trip. Lauren's strong faith and warm heart can be felt through her e-mails and facebook messages... I am so excited to meet this lady in Haiti this June and to watch God use her gifts and talents to serve the Haitian people... our mission team... and above all, our Lord. 


I ask you to lift Lauren up in prayer as she prepares her heart for this week in Haiti. May God provide for her every need.