Posts Tagged With: Haiti
Construction Update
“The God of heaven Himself will prosper us; therefore we His servants will arise and build…” Neh. 2:20. On a recent trip to Haiti, I was delighted to see the building projects Cross is working on, all with help from our generous Christian benefactors in the States. One such project is rebuilding a school in … Continue reading
New Restavek Center
We got to meet Alexander Venell, the pastor of a brand new MEBSH learning center in Lakawann, Haiti. Cross has been helping dozens of church-operated literacy centers provide food, education, and the gospel to restaveks (a Haitian word for children forced by poverty to work as domestic servants). The Lakawann school has only been open … Continue reading
Letter from Haiti
I’d like to share excerpts of the latest update from Christian Light Foundation, a Cross ministry partner that is radically changing the lives of the poor in Haiti through evangelism, housing, nutrition, and education. The letter spotlights the tremendous work of the ministry’s dedicated staff, who, like Christian Light Foundation founders Emory and Mary Wilson, … Continue reading
Life as a Restavek
One of my favorite Cross-supported projects in Haiti is a specialized education program for restavek children. Together with our ministry partner Mission Evangelique Baptiste Du Su D’Haiti (MEBSH), we support 49 literacy centers throughout southern Haiti! (Restaveks, or children working as indentured servants for a host family, are routinely denied the opportunity to attend school. … Continue reading
School Brings Hope to Rural Children
It was the most remote place I’ve ever been. On my recent trip to Haiti, we traveled from the city of Les Cayes to visit students at the Cross-sponsored Calvary Baptist Church (CBC) school in rural Bainet. The journey took five hours by car—over red dirt roads, white rocky roads and seemingly impassable roads that … Continue reading
From Haiti with Thanks
Here’s a letter, translated into English from Creole, that was handwritten by a Haitian boy who attends a Cross-sponsored Calvary Baptist Church (CBC) school: I am a student at Foye Divine. My name is David. I am the third child of my mother and father. I am 14 years old and I’m in sixth grade. … Continue reading
Christian Light Foundation
Here’s an excerpt from a newsletter written by Kathy Brooks, a colleague of our ministry partner, Emory Wilson, founder of the Christian Light Foundation in Gonaives, Haiti, where Cross is helping build homes: This past weekend we had a gathering of people in the mountains of Haiti…The gathering helped us to step back and look … Continue reading
Meet Jubilee’s Newest Residents
Last Thursday morning, the Cross International staff was blessed to spend our daily devotional time with Beaver and Kathy Brooks and their 12-year-old daughter Rebecca. The Brooks family stopped by our Pompano Beach office on their way from their home in Georgia to their new home in Jubilee, Haiti, where they just moved to help … Continue reading
United in Prayer
During his most recent trip to Haiti, Cross International President Jim Cavnar had a chance to speak at a pastors’ conference hosted by one of our ministry partners. It was an awesome opportunity for Jim and other Cross representatives to share a time of prayer and worship with Haitian men who have dedicated their lives … Continue reading
Homes Against Hunger
Cross International has sent me to cover several feeding projects around the world, which means I’ve seen a lot of hungry children. But I have never seen so many hungry children in one place at one time as I did in Jubilee, Haiti. Among the many outreach programs started there by Christian Light Foundation’s Emory … Continue reading
