Yearly Archives: 2023

The Source of Hope, Part 1

Life is full of challenges. We live in a broken world, and we see that reality in the suffering of God’s people, whether mundane or extraordinary. As Christians, we can face the trials of life with hope instead of despair—but what is the source of our hope? Our hope is in who God is. We trust in God’s character and nature; belief in Him gives us hope. “And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in you.” —Psalm 39:7 “The Lord is my portion, says my soul, therefore I will hope in him.” —Lamentations 3:24 “For [...]

2023-10-21T12:12:03-07:00August 4th, 2023|Categories: Ministry Highlights|Tags: , |
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2023 World Day Against Trafficking in Persons

World Day Against Trafficking in Persons resonates with the heart of Connect 2 Ministries. Each year on July 30, we join the global movement to end human trafficking as an extension of our ongoing ministry during the year. More than 120 children rescued from trafficking now call our Regency and Mercy Children’s Homes their home, living in an environment where they are loved, educated, and given a hope-filled future. Over the last two years, Haiti has experienced a prolonged period of social and political crisis. Today, we asked our founder, Greg Barshaw, to share what happens to restavek children [...]

2023-07-26T11:30:37-07:00July 30th, 2023|Categories: Ministry Highlights|Tags: , , , , , |
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Priorities in Serving

Over the years, our four core pillars have been the guiding principles. We are biblically focused, church centric, invested in compassionate relationships, and rooted in indigenous ministry. There’s a simple reason for that. The challenge in ministry is that if you take too broad of an approach, you end up exhausting your resources quickly and reaching less people as a result. We have seen many organizations come into Haiti and do just that. While they’ve been incredibly responsive to need, doing it without guiding principles means you spend your resources rather than investing them. It’s impossible to feed everyone or [...]

2023-07-21T08:36:25-07:00July 21st, 2023|Categories: Ministry Highlights|Tags: , , , |
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The First Five Years

Connect 2 Ministries got its start because of a God-given burden for the church in the US. Over my years in ministry, I came to believe that the church in North America had lost its passion and purpose. Church activities thrived, but outreach ministries struggled. Through many providential conversations, I came to see that some of the pastors I knew and loved felt the same about their own congregations. So, in partnership with them, C2M was born. The goal from the beginning was to help churches take people overseas. This cemented itself when a good friend of mine, a church [...]

2023-07-13T10:04:20-07:00July 14th, 2023|Categories: Ministry Highlights|Tags: , , , |
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A Life of Faith

Once when I was teaching a seminar in Haiti, I was talking about three characteristics of a healthy church. As I was speaking, I started to use the illustration of a three-legged stool—common in the US, but Poyis jumped in and suggested I use three stones instead. He told me that every Haitian child, first thing in the morning, goes outside to check if the three stones are up or down. I asked, “What are the stones for?” Poyis replied, “In a Haitian home, checking the three stones is a daily ritual because it shows something very important. When the [...]

2023-08-21T11:53:36-07:00July 7th, 2023|Categories: Ministry Highlights|Tags: , |
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Missions in the Bible, Part 2

Because of the peace and hope we’ve received in our own salvation, we seek to make Jesus known wherever we go. Whether in our local communities or in a foreign country, our heart is to see the lost come to Christ. To that end, we’re looking today at five more aspects of missions in the Bible. Missions is God working through us. God calls His church to live as messengers for Christ in this world. We share the good news, and God works through us, His children. “Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. [...]

2024-06-17T11:24:20-07:00June 30th, 2023|Categories: Ministry Highlights|Tags: , |
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Missions in the Bible, Part 1

We talk a lot about missions. As Christians, we all have a mission from God to make disciples in the world. But what does that look like practically, and how is it modeled in the Bible? Today we’re taking a look at God’s word on missions from the pages of Scripture. Missions has a purpose. God designed for His people to play a role in the salvation of others; our job is to share the good news of forgiveness in Christ. “For so the Lord has commanded us, saying, ‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that [...]

2024-06-17T11:24:50-07:00June 23rd, 2023|Categories: Ministry Highlights|Tags: , |
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2023 World Day Against Child Labor

“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.” —Romans 12:2 As Christians, it’s easy to do things that aren’t wrong in themselves, for no reason other than that they’re familiar to us. It’s easy to get caught up in the culture. But if we take Romans 12:2 literally, the patterns of this world are at odds with biblical truth. If that is true, then the question for us becomes what are [...]

2023-06-12T10:05:48-07:00June 12th, 2023|Categories: Ministry Highlights|Tags: , , , , |
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Early Growth

Between 2010 and 2020, Haiti’s religious climate saw a dramatic shift. Before the 2010 earthquake, polls showed about eighty percent of people in Port-au-Prince identified as Catholic, and less than twenty percent attended evangelical churches. Ten years later, the numbers were split at fifty percent for each category. We witnessed some of those personal changes firsthand in our Mercy Network churches. People often came with testimonies of misdirected worship that had been arrested and refocused on Christ, by God’s grace. “We did our sacrifices; we paid the spirits; we paid the Voudou priests to protect us. Then the earthquake [...]

2023-06-03T06:51:22-07:00June 2nd, 2023|Categories: Ministry Highlights|Tags: , , |
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Why Do We Pray? Part 3

Our Lord hears, answers, and blesses our prayers. He gives us access to Himself in a personal way, and that truth is a gift and comfort to us every day. In light of these blessings, we're reflecting on five more motivations Christians have to pray. We pray in unity with other Christians. God consistently urges His people to pray from a state of peace with other believers. His heart is for unity in and through prayer. "I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling." —1 Timothy 2:8 We pray [...]

2023-06-21T15:19:43-07:00May 19th, 2023|Categories: Ministry Highlights|Tags: , |
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