Haiti (MNN) — As NGOs and even some ministries pull out of Haiti, Christian World Outreach (CWO) isn’t going anyplace. In case you’ve been paying consideration over the past yr, you already know life in Haiti has grown extremely hostile with day by day gang violence and kidnappings – particularly across the capital, Port-au-Prince.
Nevertheless, CWO’s Greg Yoder says, “We don’t have any American employees in Haiti. We don’t have American employees in another nations the place we work. We work with the nationals which might be main ministry and have a coronary heart for ministry with folks of their nations.
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“In some methods, that helps somewhat bit with a few of this insecurity that is happening. I imply, it nonetheless places them in an unsafe place as a result of they’re linked with a ministry…however on the similar time, they don’t stand out like we’d being a foreigner there.”
CWO works with eight native Haitian church buildings for Gospel outreach — largely in northeastern Haiti the place there’s much less gang exercise and danger.
The ministry additionally runs three Female Coaching Facilities for ladies to study vocational abilities like cooking, baking, stitching, and cosmetology. Not less than 17 college students lately graduated from the LaJeune Female Coaching Heart.
“They will begin their very own enterprise, they will get a job in a resort or a restaurant, that sort of factor, and simply giving them some dignity,” says Yoder.
The coaching infuses some normalcy and hope into the lives of those ladies, and serves because the arms and toes of Jesus Christ.
College students on the LaJeune Female Coaching Heart in Haiti. (Picture courtesy of Christian World Outreach)
Yoder explains, “They begin class with somewhat devotional or singing or prayer. They do have a weekly chapel that the women can come to…. It offers us the chance to share the Gospel or encourage girls who already place confidence in the Lord.”
Yoder requests “prayer for the security of our employees as they attempt to journey — particularly in Port-au-Prince touring to the college — security for the scholars as they arrive, [and] security for our church buildings as they meet collectively. After they collect in a bunch, that’s a focused space…. So [pray] security for these which might be taking part in ministry.”
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In the meantime, pray for Haitians in search of God’s steering and peace.
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