The ministry is growing and we pray that the Lord grants us His grace to continue to spread the reformed faith in Haiti. Among our future projects are:

1. The expansion of the ministry to Port-au-Prince. We are seeking to buy a property in the city to plant a church, a school, an orphanage and a technical school.
2. The Construction of Matt Baugh Memorial Clinic in Messailler. Rev. Matthew Baugh was an OPC Missionary who died in a motorcycle accident in Haiti in May 2006. He loved the ministry and the country. The medical clinic will bear his name.
3. The Construction of the Fifth Presbyterian Church in Saint-Marc. The Lord has just provided fund for us to purchase a piece of land for a church and a school in Saint-Marc (about 2 hours north from Messailler). We hope to begin this construction this year.
4. The opening of the Bible School in Messailler in September 2007.

SCHOOL

The main focus of the ministry is in the area of church planting, but in a country where most of the parents cannot afford to send their children to school and where the rate of illiteracy is higher than 70%, it is necessary for the church to be interested in education. Our school ministry is also a powerful tool for evangelism. Through the school we are able to present the gospel to the children in our chapel services, in our devotions and in our Bible study classes. The schools allow us also to reach the parents of the children and present the gospel to them. This ministry has showed tremendous fruits in evangelism in all the churches where we have a school. The schools of the ministry have a growing number of students each year and are teaching a good Christian education to 700 children. In the all the schools we keep a Christian-oriented curriculum; children are asked to attend church on Sundays; the Bible is taught as regular class and chapel service is held weekly for evangelism and preaching. The goal of the schools is to educate future men and women to serve God, to be good citizen to their community, and to be adequate church members. Schools are instruments to reach the community. Through the children we can visit the parents and present the gospel to them. Our goal is to raise them straight for the Lord and for the community. After ten years of school ministry, we begin to see the fruits of our labors. Several of young Christians in the Messailler Church are from the children who came to our school in the first and second year of the ministry. Children at school in Messailler. Part of the support for the schools comes from our sponsorship program. We have a few people who contribute $25.00 a month for the tuition, fees and all other school needs of the student. We give him a report about the child every six months and a tax deductible receipt for his contribution. Since the non-sponsored children pay almost nothing for their education, our sponsors help providing to all our children an education that they might never had without their help. They help us to prepare citizens for the country and members for the church and rescue them from evil way, since otherwise they would be recruited eventually for violence and gang members. With the planting of these two other school in the coming academic year, we will be looking for more sponsors for the children who will be accepted in these schools. We just have been involved in two other projects which are part of our school ministry. Since last February, we began to teach computer skills to the young people of the community. We received more people than we expected. In September 2007, another project mainly for young girls and women will be started. It will be a school for seamstresses and other skills in sewing. We hope to continue to help people learn something that can help them to earn some money to make a living. In the future other options of learning will follow. We hope to reach the number of 1000 students in September 2007 with the opening of two other schools. We plan to receive 50 students in the Montrouis school and 250 students in the Second school in Saint-Marc. 3.

LEADERS TRAINING

Since the churches are growing, they need leaders: teaching and rulers elders and deacons. Since the summer 2003, we have held a Summer Bible Institute for the training of men who show gifts and desire for the ministry. The first summer, we had 30 men attending sessions on Covenant theology, Christian baptism, Evangelism and Mission, the Ten Commandment. In 2005, they went through the Westminster Standards, Presbyterian government, and other useful reformed teachings. Reformed pastors and professors from the States are collaborating willfully for the success of this effort. Though this ministry suffers seriously from the death of our beloved co-worker Matt Baugh, we continued to have one or two weeks of teaching in Reformed theology every year. The Lord gives us very enthusiastic men who are willing to learn and we will soon see them serving in the churches as elders, deacons, Sunday schools teachers… The Lord also made it possible for Octavius and Leon to attend seminary in Greenville. Octavius was ordained this year and is going back to work full time in the ministry. The main project in leaders training is the opening this year of our “Covenant Theological Academy”, a Bile school in Messailler. The Bible school is scheduled to begin its classes in September 2007. This school will be useful for formal and full training of our pastors, ruling elders, and deacons. This Bible School will grow to become eventually a reformed Bible College and Seminary. We believe that the church cannot be reformed if its officers are not reformed. And they cannot be reformed without a solid training in a full committed reformed school. This is the reason of the foundation of the Bible school. We will follow the curriculum of the reformed seminaries in the PCA, particularly Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. We will offer regular weekly classes while pastors and professors will continue to come from the States to offer courses during a week or two, four times a year. We hope to attract people from other denominations particularly the Baptists with the hope that they become, if not Presbyterians, at least Calvinist Reformed Baptists. We hope to have enough elders trained to ordained our first indigenous pastors and start a national presbytery in the next four years.

SHORT TERM MISSIONS

We receive each year an average of eight to ten teams who visit us on the field. Our short mission teams have done wonderful works in evangelism, teaching, construction, health care, mercy ministry, etc. They are always a great encouragement to us and very helpful for the advancement of the ministry. The medical and dental teams always see close to 1,000 people in one week and they saved many lives. The construction teams who go down this year are working on the new orphanage, our current on-going project. Last year we had Sam Rico for half a year. He is a graduate of Covenant Seminary in St. Louis. He learned Creole quickly and helped with preaching, teaching, the sponsorship program, and acted as liaison for the teams that came down. The political situation of the country becomes much better. As it is safer, we hope to have more short teams to go and help in the ministry. The house

CONSTRUCTION

Because some teams had to cancel their trip to Haiti from 2004 to 2006, the progress of the construction projects was slow. However some buildings as the mission house, the pavillion, the dormitories and the Messailler school are 80 to 90% completed. We are working now on the construction of the orphanage and the fourth church in Saint Marc. Much work needs to be done in these buildings in order to finish them. As soon as the orphanage and the fourth church are completed, our next construction projects will be the Matt Baugh Memorial medical Clinic in Messailler and the Fifth church in Saint-Marc. Fourth pres construction in St. Marc.

MERCY MINISTRY

The Lord helps us to continue to provide food for some members of the churches. We assisted people who were victim from the hurricane Jane and the flood with clothes, foods and medical cares. We help also people from the churches with a reasonable amount of money to settle little trades so that they can survive. The mercy ministry will be extended to two other activities: an orphanage and a permanent medical clinic, both in the compound in Messailler. This picture shows the orphanage construction project.

• The Orphanage
  Because of the situation of lots of children without any help, we are obliged to start an orphanage very soon. We are currently working in the building, which we hope to complete by the end of the year. We hope to receive in it twenty boys in two families. Our plan is to give them a taste of living in a covenant family, educate them and hope that they will become leaders in the churches and other institutions of the ministry. The orphanage will begin hopefully to receive these boys by the beginning of the year 2008.
• The Medical Clinic
  We have been witnesses how people are dying because they do not have access to adequate health care. People who are victims of car accidents on the road cannot find a good hospital to go. The ministry itself is a victim of this problem. If there was a good hospital in the area, Matt would be able to receive some care and maybe his life might be saved. Our goal is to have a good medical and dental clinic. We hope to complete this project in the next five years.

TRANSLATION MINISTRY

We began a ministry of translation of Reformed books into French and Creole in 2000. Among the books already translated are the Westminster Confession of Faith, the Larger and Shorter Catechisms into French, and the Shorter Catechism for young Children into Creole. The first three are being published in the form of the “Harmony of the Westminster Confession and Catechisms” by Dr. Morton H. Smith. We began to translate also the “Systematic Theology” of Dr. Smith. Other good books of the Puritans are waiting on the list to be translated. Two of the books that we translated are already printed. We hope that the other ones can be printed soon. We still need more books to be translated in French and Creole. We will continue this ministry of translation and production of good reformed literature for our people.

LIBRARY FOR THE BIBLE SCHOOL

We have a project of a good library for our Bible school but also it will serve as a research center in Reformed theology. Churches and individuals are invited to contribute to this project.

CHALLENGE

Haiti had a difficult time during these past years. The political turmoil every now and then is a very big challenge. We need safety to stay in the country but also for other people to come and invest their money for the development of the country and for many teams to come and help. The main problem remains the political instability of the country. This situation affects the progress of the work of evangelism and the church planting effort. I would like to see more peace in the county which is a condition of the expansion of the ministry to other villages and cities. Another challenge is the financial means we need to keep up with the growing of the ministry. The ministry needs more financial means to keep the schools running and to plant and build more churches. Several times the ministry ran out of money even to pay the salary of the workers. We are grieved by the loss of the pastor of Montrouis Presbyterian Church who went to be with the Lord at the end of the month of February 2006. It was a sudden death and therefore a shock for the family, for the church, and for our whole Christian community. Two months after that was the death of Matt who was killed in a motorcycle accident. All of these are very difficult situations for our young ministry. But in the midst of all the difficulties, the gospel continues to be preached and the churches are still growing.