Our Mission
From the very beginning, Our Mission has been; “To come alongside the people of Haiti to help them help themselves attain a sustainable life in Christ, with a real hope for the future.”
Coming alongside to help them help themselves is clearly the harder way to do ministry in any foreign country. But if our help to the people of Haiti has any chance of being sustainable when we are gone, it has to be this way. “We are not going to do it for them, we are going to help them do it.”
Our purpose is to lead, encourage, teach, and train leaders, individuals, families, and whole communities to come to their own understanding of the knowledge and love of God, and to live their lives in the reconciling process of God, by loving Him with all their heart, soul and mind, and loving their neighbors the same. We believe this will break the chains that have held these people and communities in poverty and oppression for generations.
Ultimately our purpose is to see the Haitian people not just survive, but thrive, and bring glory to the name of Jesus by continuing the work that He modeled for us over 2,000 years ago
The great commandment says: “Love the Lord God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it; Love your neighbor as yourself. All of the law and prophets hang on these two commandments.” And so does our purpose for living.
As a ministry called to help the poor, hurting, and oppressed in Haiti, we see our purpose very clearly derived and rooted in the great commandment. It is two-fold:
- To see the Haitian people personally transformed by God, through their love and devotion to Him, into the very likeness of Christ.
- To see the Haitian people advance the Kingdom of God by loving and caring for their neighbors in the same way that God has loved and cared for them.