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War takes a toll on any society. Beyond causing turmoil for the individual, the uncertainty created by civil unrest and political violence destabilizes everything from infrastructure to government proceedings. In Haiti, these effects go beyond instability and look more like a country that’s been, in many ways, torn apart. Today, we’re considering the effects of war on Haiti’s government and political system. The biggest challenge for Haiti right now is reidentifying their source of authority. For the past few years, the governing authority has not been the government. It has been the gangs. What’s needed now is a full reversal [...]

Street children in Haiti face all kinds of challenges as part of everyday life, but in a war crisis, those kids become war children. Children without stable families or living situations are frequently co-opted into gangs, and that poses a serious problem not just for the kids themselves but for the nation of Haiti as a whole. The abuse war children face is different from the abuse common among restavek children. Abused restavek children are typically affected on an individual level, but they are generally in situations where they are clothed, fed, and with a roof over their head. War [...]

One of the most practical ways we serve the church in Haiti is through short-term ministry trips. Teams from our US partner churches come to serve and encourage the church in Haiti in a variety of ways, and it’s always a refreshing time for those involved. Today, we’re sharing some reflections from our recent trip. This January, we sent our first 2026 volunteer team to Haiti. Today, we asked Bill, our team leader, to share a little about the trip. This trip was a blessing from start to finish. After so many months in flux, it was nice to see [...]

One question we sometimes hear is, “How does it make sense to talk about what's happening in Haiti in terms of war?” The assumption is that war is usually more organized, with a clear goal in mind, where unrest or chaos like what we’ve seen in the country is different. Yet the effects are similar. People suffer under gang control in much the same ways they do in war time, and that commonality requires us to discuss the situations similarly. The major challenge for us, as we encounter victims of war, is reinstilling a sense of humanity. For many people [...]

One of the challenges of war is a lost sense of humanity. Among those in power, war minimizes natural human impulses like generosity and compassion in favor of bolstering control or even domination. As wicked men kill mothers, fathers, and children, or take food from a population to introduce starvation, basic decency recedes from view. This is what’s happened over the last few years of gang warfare in Haiti. When we think about war, we often try to evaluate whether it’s a net good or evil based on its driving motivation. A war that accomplishes freedom from oppression, communism, or [...]

One of the most practical ways we serve the church in Haiti is through short-term ministry trips. Teams from our US partner churches come to serve and encourage the church in Haiti in a variety of ways, and it’s always a refreshing time for those involved. Today, we’re sharing some reflections from our volunteers. After a long pause for our team trips, God provided the opportunity to begin sending volunteers again in 2025. Today, we asked two of our volunteers, Robert and Hudson, to share about their trip experiences—these are their reflections on short-term ministry in Haiti. One of [...]

Christianity is very inefficient. American culture wants things to run smoothly, asking questions like, How do I maximize my impact with the least amount of effort? The Christian faith is exactly the opposite. Jesus calls for our maximum effort, not the minimum, and living faithfully involves being willing to die, to sacrifice, to give up my life for someone else. It's inefficient and slow, both of which are counterintuitive to the American mindset. Living on mission in the US requires undoing some of our cultural bias. In order to be efficient, we build mega churches, host large-scale conferences, and spread [...]

Our primary mission field is Haiti, but in our “Missions Beyond Haiti” series, we’re examining how the logistics of ministry shift based on cultural context. In this post, I want to share some thoughts from my ministry experience in Europe, a continent with deep Christian roots now grappling with secularism. In both Haiti and Europe, the fundamental need is for people to encounter Jesus. Whether the context is Haiti's spiritual syncretism—blending Christianity with Voudou—or Europe's post-Christian apathy, people everywhere are searching for hope, forgiveness, and purpose. We've witnessed this in Haiti through community evangelism that addresses both spiritual and physical [...]

In Haiti, children are increasingly becoming casualties of gang warfare. Child slavery is legal in the country, and child exploitation and trafficking still exist because of it. But the rising numbers of war children are a result of even broader social realities. Gangs have taken control of Port-au-Prince, and for months they have been forcibly recruiting vulnerable youth from the streets, turning them into instruments of war amid surging violence. UNICEF reports a 200% increase [1] in child recruitment in 2025 alone, with the UN estimating that 30–50% of gang members are now children.[2] These war children, often orphaned or [...]

One of the challenges you often encounter when ministering in a different culture is the language barrier. We’ve talked about this in the past regarding our children. Some of our kids speak English, but most of them speak Creole, which raises a practical question: how do you communicate the gospel when it’s hard to communicate? I spent some time thinking about this during my missions work in various parts of Asia—Korea, Japan, Thailand, Siberia, Kazakhstan, all places where English is not the predominant language. The logistics of discipleship are a real consideration in these contexts. For example, honor is a [...]