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.

May 2012

April was a very productive month! It was also a very rainy month but productive first.

You surpassed the goal of $3000 needed to buy Bibles by $1274! What a blessing you are being to the children! When we reached the goal, Steve began buying and distributing them at the schools. We wanted to wait until we had enough for everyone before we started buying them. The business we are buying them through is located in downtown Port Au Prince. Its building was destroyed in the earthquake and now, like so many others, works out of a tent. Because of that, their stock or supply is limited. So we can buy 40 or so, they reorder, let us know, we get those, and so on. With this newsletter, we have posted pictures of the Bible purchase.

All of the kids were very excited to receive their own Bible, and during school breaks, you could see them sitting and looking at or reading them -- exactly want we wanted to see! Before passing them out Steve had them promise him they would read some each night.

Then there's the rain. It poured during April and did so even to the end of the month. During the last week of the month several were killed in areas close to dry river or creek beds, and many living in the tent cities were forced out of their homes by flood waters.

This will be a continuing problem as long as there is no other place for still almost half a million people to live. With hurricane season almost here, that threat hangs over them daily. Please remember to keep these families in your prayers.

Along with pictures of the Bible program, and the flooding, we've included some new pictures of one of the feeding programs.

(Click here to see more pictures.)

Thank you again for going well beyond the need asked for to buy Bibles. By doing that, you're helping us buy more for others outside the schools and spread the Good News. We appreciate each one of you, for everything you do to help our friends in Haiti.

Serving HIM together

Steve and Terry