“Words cannot describe what the people there deal with on a day-to-day basis. It really puts things in perspective when we want to get down in the dumps about something we have to deal with here at home.”

Sherry Mitchell Hancock of Princeton, Kentucky said she has found great inspiration in a verse from Isaiah as she prepares for her upcoming mission trip to Haiti. “For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed (Isaiah 54:10),” Hancock reads.

“This verse is used to encourage and remind us of God’s faithful love amidst a devastation that has affected the entire nation of Haiti.”

Hancock will leave next week with a group of medical professionals from the Chicago-area to offer aid to the people of Haiti who suffered from one of the deadliest earthquakes in history on Jan. 12.

Hancock, who was born and reared in Princeton until the age of 11 and then moved to Mayfield, returned to the community in October 2009 after spending the last 27 years living and working in Chicago as a registered nurse.

She traveled to Haiti in February 2009 with El Shaddai Ministries International joining a group of doctors and nurses from Chicago who went to offer basic medical attention to orphans. “We went into the orphanages and rendered care to the children there. We treated things like scabies, lice and malnutrition,” she said.

Hancock returned to her Chicago home from that trip and said she often reflected on her experience in Haiti.

“It is such a poor country. Words cannot describe what the people there deal with on a day-to-day basis. It really puts things in perspective when we want to get down in the dumps about something we have to deal with here at home,” she said. “Those people deal with no electricity, no water, sometimes no clothing. The conditions were pretty horrible when I was there before, I can’t even imagine what I am going to walk into this time.”

Hancock said since returning to Princeton last fall she had been waiting for God to show her what path she needed to take.