However, InterVarsity Press is running a contest in conjunction with Haiti Partners to win a free mission trip to Haiti. Your guide will be Kent Annan, codirector of Haiti Partners and author of a new book Following Jesus Through the Eye of the Needle: Living Fully, Loving Dangerously. Six people will be chosen to receive an all-expenses-paid five-day mission trip to Haiti next May (you have to find your own way to Miami).

Contestants have to answer a single question with either an essay (300-400 words) or a 2-to-3 minute YouTube video: How are you personally challenged by Jesus’ invitation to live more fully and love dangerously, and how could this trip be part of that?

The fine print says that the contest is open to legal residents of Canada (excluding Quebec) and the United States. Deadline for entries is February. 15, 2010. The first 50 entries receive a free copy of the book.

If you are interested, read the complete contest rules and fill out the entry form.