Haitian Island Ministries

Welcome to the official website for Haitian Island Ministries -- a ministry that has been reaching out to the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere since 1994. Most people in Haiti live on less than $1 a day. There is no welfare or public assistance available. About 80% of the population lives in abject poverty and 70% of the adult population cannot read or write.

Haitian Island Ministries (H.I.M.) gives its full undivided attention and resources to Haiti in an effort to bring peace and the Word of God to the people.

What is Our Purpose?

Haitian Island Ministries operates medical programs, feeding programs, and also builds schools and churches in some of the most remote areas of Haiti. The medical programs provide free vitamins, medicines, and medical care for hundreds of thousands of Haitians. The feeding programs provide a simple daily meal for thousands of Haitian children from several villages each month. H.I.M.'s five schools provide key primary education to Haitian children to equip them with the tools they need to improve their lives.

How You Can Help

Haitian Island Ministries has structured a sponsorship program that pays for Haitian children to attend school tuition-free. Sponsoring a Haitian family relieves them from the significant financial burden of paying school tuition. Every penny of your sponsorship goes toward paying for teachers' salaries and school supplies. By helping Haitian children stay in school, you have the opportunity to change the future of Haiti, one child at a time.

February 2012

"If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast." Psalms 139:9-10

Recently I found myself reading in Psalms, which is not oddity and I've been there before, but I normally read or study one of Paul’s letters. One of my favorite verses, and what I call my travel verse, is Psalms 139:9. When traveling to Haiti, I normally fly into Miami in the evening, overnight there and leave on the first flight, which leaves right at sunrise, “the wings of dawn.” After flying several hundred miles over water, I land in Port Au Prince and “settle on the far side of the sea.” I can tell you for sure this verse came into mind after the earthquake and I said to God, “You really do have me in your right hand.”

But, when reading further, I came to Psalms 142, and after reading the first few verses, I had to stop because of what the last verse I read said to me. I had stopped with verse 4 and the last part of it says, depending on the translation you are reading; “no one cares for my soul”. Wow. What a situation the writer must have been in to feel that way, that they would feel that no one around them would even care about their soul, or life as some translations say.