There are many different areas that you can see the LORD working in the small country of Haiti. God has called a lot of different people to Haiti to work for Him. God's name, and God's Word is going out. There was a group of people discussing God's Word the other day and one of the 'blancs' mention that the Haitians must be getting sick and tired of all the whites that are in the country. The person replied by saying that the NGO's can leave but the missionaries need to stay. The work that has been done in education, in the churches and the lives of every day people needs to continue, needs to carry on. The missionaries and all those that work to further the gospel need to carry on. If Haiti is going to be a better country, people need to work on the broken relationships: God, self, others and creation. And this is what the missionaries are trying to do here in Hait.
So for this blog update a friend of mine, named Kati, and I would like to present to you friends of ours that are making changes in Haiti with the LORD's help. Part of these profiles will be on my blog and there will be a link to Kati's blog where you can read the rest of the profiles. We encourage you to check out their blogs or websites. We also encourage you to pray for the prayer requests that they have.
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Howard and Ruth Van Dam along with children Taressa, Natasha, Micah and Malieke are serving in Haiti with the Christian Reformed World Missions. In Haiti they along with several co-workers are partnering with 6 Haitian Christian organizations. These organizations are serving God through church and school leadership training, community development and church development. Howard consults and works closely with one of these partners along with serving as team leader for the office, assisting work teams in the construction aspect, and numerous other responsibilities and projects. Ruth focuses on the home front and works part time as assistant administrator of the office. All four children attend Quisqueya Christian School from grades 7 to 12.
Prayer requests: Pray specifically for our partners that their ministry will effectively transform communities in the name of Christ.
Hello! My name is Jill Rutz. In May, I graduated from Appalachian State University in North Carolina. I graduated with a degree in Elementary Education.
I spent the last two summers in Haiti working with Campus Crusade for Christ. During that time, God gave me a heart for the culture and people. The Lord opened doors and paved a way for me to teach at Quisqueya Christian School.
I am currently teaching 2nd grade at Quisqueya. I pray that each child in my class would come to know the Lord in an intimate way. These children have the opportunity to be the next lawyers, doctors, teachers, and politicians of the country. I pray that they will be a generation that helps change Haiti for Christ!
Prayer requests: Please pray for the children to come to know the LORD in an intimate way, please pray for the children to make a difference in Haiti in the years to come.
Blog: click here to check out Jill's blog.
My name is Tim Kikkert and I work for Samaritan's Purse International Relief in Haiti. I work with the organization here as an logistics coordinator; my basic tasks entail management of Samaritan's Purse inventory and assets in the country and doing whatever I can to assist programs and their staff in running their programs as smoothly as possible.
Though the organization is perhaps best known for Operation Christmas Child, a project that distributes shoe-box Christmas presents to children around the world in an effort to show them the love of Jesus, we also have many other programs currently running seeking to educate, train, support and serve the Haitian people in the wake of the 2010 earthquake. Some of the other projects that Samaritan's Purse is presently involved in here in Haiti are medical clinics, maternal child health education and training, rubble removal and road building, community water and sanitation improvements, likelihoods training, recycling centers, orphanage and school construction and support, pastoral training and discipleship, and evangelism.
Prayer Requests- continued discernment and wisdom as we continue to seek the best ways to come alongside and support the church and the people here as they continue to rebuild and build anew. Pray for reconciliation; that the hearts and minds of the Haitian people may be transformed by the grace of God that this country may be a witness to the world of the power and saving grace of Christ. Pray for open doors for ministry here in Haiti and for spiritual and physical protection for the church. The leadership of Samaritan's Purse in Haiti and in our International head office in Boone, North Carolina.
I spent the last two summers in Haiti working with Campus Crusade for Christ. During that time, God gave me a heart for the culture and people. The Lord opened doors and paved a way for me to teach at Quisqueya Christian School.
I am currently teaching 2nd grade at Quisqueya. I pray that each child in my class would come to know the Lord in an intimate way. These children have the opportunity to be the next lawyers, doctors, teachers, and politicians of the country. I pray that they will be a generation that helps change Haiti for Christ!
Prayer requests: Please pray for the children to come to know the LORD in an intimate way, please pray for the children to make a difference in Haiti in the years to come.
My name is Tim Kikkert and I work for Samaritan's Purse International Relief in Haiti. I work with the organization here as an logistics coordinator; my basic tasks entail management of Samaritan's Purse inventory and assets in the country and doing whatever I can to assist programs and their staff in running their programs as smoothly as possible.
Though the organization is perhaps best known for Operation Christmas Child, a project that distributes shoe-box Christmas presents to children around the world in an effort to show them the love of Jesus, we also have many other programs currently running seeking to educate, train, support and serve the Haitian people in the wake of the 2010 earthquake. Some of the other projects that Samaritan's Purse is presently involved in here in Haiti are medical clinics, maternal child health education and training, rubble removal and road building, community water and sanitation improvements, likelihoods training, recycling centers, orphanage and school construction and support, pastoral training and discipleship, and evangelism.
Prayer Requests- continued discernment and wisdom as we continue to seek the best ways to come alongside and support the church and the people here as they continue to rebuild and build anew. Pray for reconciliation; that the hearts and minds of the Haitian people may be transformed by the grace of God that this country may be a witness to the world of the power and saving grace of Christ. Pray for open doors for ministry here in Haiti and for spiritual and physical protection for the church. The leadership of Samaritan's Purse in Haiti and in our International head office in Boone, North Carolina.
Hi, I am Lesley Toussaint, formerly Millar and am living and working in Haiti with my husband San Diego and our 14-month old daughter, Julianna. I am working with the Christian Reformed Church of North America and their ministries in Haiti. I have been here since 2007, originally as a volunteer and became a full-time staff in September 2008. I train and mentor a small Haitian organization called Perspectives Reformees Internationales en Haiti (PRIHA). It is an evangelical organization that focuses on preaching the Gospel and training people in discipleship. PRIHA uses radio as a means for reaching the masses. They have a 15-minute radio program in French recorded by an African pastor named Paul Mpindi who God uses to speak His word profoundly. He preaches the Gospel in a way that makes people understand and convinced of its truthfulness. Currently, PRIHA has over 40 radio stations that play the program in partnership with us for almost nothing.
PRIHA also has a Bible Study by correspondence which it uses to train Haitian Christians in Bible Study. The Bible Study has 3 levels and students graduate after each level. PRIHA has over 4,000 students enrolled in its Bible Study. I work with local staff and provide training in administration and finance for them to become self-sufficient and run the ministry on their own. I have been working with this ministry for 3 years now and in 1 year’s time we plan on having it become completely independent and run by local Haitian staff. This organization faces a lot of challenges, one being resources, both human and finance.
Prayer Requests: Please pray that God will provide the appropriate people and finances for His work to continue.
Hi, I’m San Diego Toussaint and Haitian-born and proud! I am working with Christian Reformed World Relief Committee (CRWRC) in Haiti. Our main office is in Leogane, which is the epicenter of the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti. We work in many different communities surrounding Leogane providing basic needs after the earthquake, including food, water and shelter. We have built around 2,500 temporary wooden shelters for people in these communities. We have also built many latrines and helped improved people’s living conditions in regard to health and sanitation. Currently, we are helping people recover what they lost in the earthquake in terms of livelihood. We are helping farmers to get seeds and start re-growing their crops as well as merchants who sell locally to obtain loans to re-purchase their merchandise. This is in the hopes that these peoples’ lives can be restored to where they were before the disaster of Jan. 12, 2010 struck them. My role with this organization is to manage the office and its activities. I organize all of the logistics and procurement of these our office needs as well as help in the running of the administration.
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