Reaching Haiti through rescuing children, feeding the hungry, church planting and evangelism, medical outreach, and training missionaries!
We have been working to sort through all of our video footage from our last trip. We have made a few videos and posted them on YouTube. Please check them out and share them with your friends! Our user name is Reaching Haiti. We’re praying that people who watch these will see the great need in Haiti for the Gospel and will get involved to help us reach and take this country for Jesus! God bless you!
Young 3 yeard old Rebecca who lives at one of the orphanages we work with
Since January 2009, Mike and I have been in Haiti twice. We want everyone to watch and pray as the harvest continues to grow! We want to keep you all posted on what the Lord is doing and what he has allowed us to do through Him! So far, this is the harvest that has been birthed. We are expecting these seeds to grow and continue to advance the Kingdom! We are not consumed by typical numbers, but we are consumed with souls! We don’t like to just see people profess salvation but also to plug them into a local church where they can be discipled, trained, and equipped to help advance the Gospel! These are the numbers so far that we have witnessed in Haiti, but we know that this is only the beginning! Continue to pray for these souls and their growth and protection as they are part of God’s Kingdom too!
Andrea teaching at Pastor Naynay's School
Pastor Jacques' Church, one of our church plants
We are planning our full-time move to Haiti on August 2nd and we are in need of people who will stand with us financially on a monthly basis. If you would like to learn more about our needs click here.
Down the road in Despinos
April and Joel live on the left
Hey everyone! We have been very blessed to have trustworthy contacts in Haiti, both American and Haitian. We work with a young couple who are from the states and live next door to the orphanage we currently work with in the village of Despinos, April and Joel Hess. April is an RN and runs a clinic close to her house. Her and Joel also have a school and a church on the property. They have lived full-time in Haiti for a few years now and are a huge blessing to us for their encouragement, positive attitudes, and true servants’ hearts. We received an email from April yesterday that I want to share with everyone about a great prayer request in Despinos. Yeman is a woman who lives in Despinos that is HIV positive. She received salvation through Christ and was believing the Lord for her healing.
“This has been very hard on us. We have invested many hours in Yeman, going to the doctor treating her, feeding her, encouraging and loving her. She had became very dear to us. In the last three months, Yeman’s faith and relationship with Christ had really flourished. She was so excited to be studying the Bible and learning. She would wake up at 4 am to listen to Christian radio and try to learn the Psalms. She was very faithful to church and very open about her new found walk with Christ. As we know, people can be very cruel and insensitive. She was being persecuted by many people outside her door at night with machete’s etc.. The doctor had recently told her that even with all the treatment, she would never be healed. In the last few weeks, she started to act strange, forget things, and began to wonder off for days, and come home not knowing where she went or what she had done. I was visiting her everyday, praying with her, trying to encourage her, but it seemed the Aids had began to cloud her ability to think clearly, and satan was doing his best to make her fall. One minute she was clear, the next she was not. Saturday night, her mother came knocking at our door at 10 to tell us she had burnt herself. Honestly, I thought it was something small. I rushed to the clinic, to get gloves, protective wear etc.. Nothing prepared me for how bad her situation was. She had burnt her entire body, and her body was still smoking. She had locked her door, and poured gas on her head and lit a match.. Her sister crashed the door in to get to her, but it was too late.
The view from Despinos
Have you ever wanted to be a missionary? Do you love short-term trips but wonder what life would be like to live overseas full-time as a missionary? We are very excited to announce the opening of our new Missionary Training School in February 2010! In just 9 short months, you can not only experience missionary life at its best, but also achieve an accredited Associate’s Degree!
Our school is not just classroom education but personal, real-life experience to teach you about the good and the bad of full-time missions! You will be given the opportunity to see all sides of our ministry in Haiti including remote-area outreach, village evangelism, church planting, orphanage work, pastoral training, and going where the Gospel is unheard! Along with the experience, you will be taught true life on the mission field through video and instructor-led teachings and lots of reading focused on the Bible and mission biographies. We also put on a strong emphasis on you learning the Haitian culture and language, Creole. Our goal is to not just fill you with facts but to allow you to be taught through real-life experience and how to be led by the Holy Spirit through all situations!
If you can’t commit to the full 9 months, we are also offering shorter internships which will give you the same experience in a shorter amount of time and without the degree. You can come for one month to six months and still get the feel for life overseas!
If you are interested or want more information, please visit our Missionary Training School page or email us at reachhaiti@gmail.com. We look forward to hearing from you! God bless you!
Since January of 2009, we have planted 3 new churches in Haiti. Some of our churches are in very remote areas where no other missionaries work. Currently, about 600 people are attending these new churches. The Lord has allowed us lead over 1,100 people to him by several different outreach methods in less than five months!When you partner with us, you are supporting several avenues of ministry. We currently support 3 Pastors, 4 Churches, and 1 new Bible college; we also partner with 2 orphanages. You can be confident that we are putting your support to advancing the Kingdom of God!
Our goal is to move to Haiti on August 2, 2009. For this to happen, several things must quickly be accomplished. Our first goal is to raise our monthly budget and departure expenses. As of May 19, we are at 20% of our monthly target. Since we have just began to extend opportunities for people to sow into this ministry, we are very excited about that!
It is very important for people to support our monthly budget so we can focus on evangelizing, church planting, and caring for the orphans. Many people have told us they would not be willing to move to such an impoverished nation and live the way we will be living. However, for us, it is a great blessing to give our lives to the work of the Lord. We understand that most people are not called to move to another nation, but our belief is, you are either a goer or a giver, one who provides so others can go. Will you consider partnering with us on a monthly basis today? By becoming a partner, you will help us have departure expenses raised before we leave. We commit to being good stewards of the Lord’s finances that He brings to us.
As for departure expenses, the Lord has really blessed us. Our last trip to Haiti, we had someone pledge to donate around 5 acres to us in a good location. This will help keep our monthly budget low since we will not be renting a place. At the same time, it increases our departure expenses because of the need to build our house and a fence around the property. It is going to cost us approximately $10,000 US dollars to build the first phase of our house and fence. That does not take into account the other expenses of moving and setting up. So please consider a one time donation that will help us set up the ministry in Haiti.
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Thank you for your time and consideration to support us! Above all else, we would like to ask for your prayers. We need to maintain a solid prayer team here to intercede for us constantly as we are doing battle on the frontlines of this war! God bless you!
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One of the trees where "the devils live"
This is another one of our exciting stories from our recent trip to Haiti. We had hiked out to a village in the Lotsabonite area located in the middle of lots of rice fields. The village wasn’t too welcoming to us. We set up our sound system and screen with intentions of preaching and showing the Jesus Film here.
When we got to the town center, there were two large trees literally growing sideways. They were rooted in the ground in two different places instead of just one. One of our translators began to explain to us that this village believed the devils lived in these trees. Overlooking this spot was also the town’s Voodoo alter. One of the Pastors with us (Naynay) told us that he had tried to share the Gospel to this village one other time. He said the people revolted against him and threatened to cut his head off with their machetes if he didn’t leave. He hasn’t been back since. So, he felt that maybe they would receive from us. We prayed and bound every demonic presence that had a hold on this area to be loosed and broken in Jesus’ name so they could receive the truth of the Gospel!
As the clouds were rolling in behind us, we all prayed against the rain so we could show the film. After some praise and worship and some prayer from Pastor Jacque, Wendell got up and delivered a powerful word from God about salvation and repentence. The people stood cold and calloused against us. They didn’t receive anything that had been said. Right when Wendell was finishing, it began to rain…then pour. Within twenty minutes, there were several inches of water on the ground with no hope of letting up anytime soon. We all piled under bamboo porches to escape the rain but we were all soaked already. The people scattered and fled to their homes. So, we knew it was going to be hard to trek out of this area with the mud and rain. Without any other options, we began the hike back out through the now mud-covered rice fields on a trail about two wide with a steep drop-off on both sides. This was quite amusing. The Haitians thoughts we were just hilarious since we could barely walk without falling and sliding as they literally ran through the mud with ease. Eva’s flip-flops broke and got lost in the mud. Two Haitian women had to help carry her out. Mike and I were holding on to each other as we all laughed the whole way out.
Once we got to the KIA, the roads were too bad to travel, but again, with no other choice, we prayed and took off through the mud down the dirt road back to where we were staying. All I can relate this experience to is four-wheeling through the mud back in east Tennessee. We can just say that the Lord drove the KIA back to the house that night. We got back safely to the church by the grace of God and went to our rooms. The goats were trying to escape the rain by hiding on our doorsteps under the small awning. It was quite entertaining! They also left Eva and I a special present under our door to our room…
The Haitians were still laughing at us! One of them actually took the time to dig Eva’s flip-flops out of the mud and brought them to her, although they were broke and unable to wear at this point. We took some pictures and had a great time in the rain! Then we all went into our rooms to go to bed thinking it was really late. When Wendell checked the time, it was only 7:00pm. Haha!
We found out the next morning that the peole were not happy about our journey to their village. They told Pastor Naynay that the devils left their trees and were physically UNABLE to come back again! Praise God that His power and authority is greater and stronger than ANYTHING the enemy can throw at us! When we take authority in Jesus’ name, the enemy has to submit to that because 1 John 4:4 reminds us that “You are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.”
We know the seed was planted in this village and in time, God will bring the harvest out of it! Continue to pray for the truth to be revealed to these people and they repent and turn from their evil ways to salvation in Jesus Chris! Praise God!
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We just returned from our last trip to Haiti this week. This is how the Lord is leading us to pray for this time. Agree with us that we will start to see the harvest come forth and for workers to step up and GO to take this nation in Jesus name!
1. To inspire the leaders to advance the Gospel by planting churches in remote areas and grow in understanding and strength in the Lord
2. Complete deliverance in the villages from the enemy’s hands
3. Fixing some technical problems
4. Wisdom for us to go where the Lords wants us to go for outreach
5. For God to show Himself so powerful to the villages that every stronghold of the enemy be destroyed and demolished in Jesus name!
6. Safety and protection from every attack of the enemy against us
7. For God to open the blinded eyes of those serving Voodoo and for the deceitful tactics of the enemy to be brought into the light so the truth can be revealed
8. A supernatural outpouring of the Holy Spirit with signs and wonders to follow
9. Healings of EVERY sickness and disease
10. For God to bring forth a harvest from all the seeds that were planted so far this month
11. For growth in the four Church plants and for the Pastors to lead with wisdom.
12. For support to put up a coconut leaf church and tin roof. Total cost about $600 us. You can see the picture of the Church above that needs a roof. It is the beginning of the rainy season.
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Wow! Six of us just returned from an amazing trip to Haiti. Myself (Michael brewer), Andrea Puckett, Eva Rimback, Wendell Redman, Brad Houser, and Doug Frye. We got in around 6am on Sunday morning, May 9th. I will be posting the full results of the entire trip very soon, but I just wanted to share the following story from our journey.
While Eva and Wendell were doing leadership training at a church, Andrea and myself left to do some remote-area evangelism in a nearby village with our Haitian interpreters. When we crossed over a small stream to enter the village, we could feel the atmosphere change around us. We saw a small school made out of coconut leaves and poles. We went in and encouraged the teachers and children to surrender there lives to Jesus. We had 48 children accept Jesus in the school. We also ministered outside to adults who were interested. As we walked on down the small path to visit some homes, we decided to visit the local Voodoo priest at his home/the temple to share the Gospel with him, but he was not there. So we continued down the path. While walking, we heard some singing and chanting nearby. So we went to check it out, and right before us, there were about 35 people in the middle of a Voodoo ceremony with the calm, cold priest sitting there overseeing it all.
As we approach the worshipers, we asked if we were welcome. The priest said yes and sent for us some chairs. For the next twenty or thirty minutes, we shared the Gospel from Genesis to the resurrection of Jesus with all of them. At the end when we called them to repentance, the Priest asked us to pray for him that God would give him a dream because that is how he hears from the spirits! We told him we would pray for that and for the Lord to reveal Himself to him. Then they all kneeled down before us, and we laid hands and prayed over the people and bound the spirits that were blinding their eyes and deceiving them.
We later found out that this Priest was the “top dog” in this area for all the Voodoo. We’re believing God for his repentance and salvation and that all the others will follow his lead. Continue to pray for him; his name is John. God opened up their hearts to receive the message we brought, and we are believing God to continue to work on them and the entire village!
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