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Missionaries with Christian Reformed World Missions (CRWM) are reaching out to the broader evangelical community by facilitating needed training and providing training resources for church and community leaders.
The Christian Training Center has three foci:
- Providing practical pastoral training to church leaders from a variety of denominational backgrounds through 12 extension centers around the country.
- Offering monthly seminars and follow-up visits to participating school teachers through two extension centers.
- Producing and distributing simple Bible study materials through local churches and other missions to lead people into a closer walk with God.
Additionally, CRWM missionaries work with the Consortium for the Reinforcement of Christian Education in Haiti (CRECH). CRWM began CRECH to prepare Christian school curriculum for the Christian schools developing in Haiti. It is presently comprised of some 40 Evangelical and Protestant, national and international development organizations working in Haiti.
The Christian Reformed Church of Haiti is working to become a denomination where members are rooted in God’s Word and are effective witnesses under trying circumstances. It also seeks to be an indigenous church that is not so dependent on foreign missions for leadership and financial resources like many other churches in Haiti.
Besides these ministries, partner missionaries teach at Quisqueya Christian School, an English speaking school in Port-au-Prince with a mix of both missionary and Haitian children.
Learn more about CRWM projects in Haiti. Not from Canada or the US? Click on either country.
World Missions entered Haiti in late 1986 to help church leaders become more effective agents in struggling with the physical and spiritual needs of those in their churches and communities. Since then the focus has broadened to include training teachers, developing Christian school curricula, and preparing Christian discipleship and Bible study materials. Today missionaries with World Missions and the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee (CRWRC) work together in Haiti as a united ministry team to provide a more holistic approach to ministry. Known locally as Sous Espwa (meaning “fountain or source of hope”), they seek to point Haiti’s people to their only Source of Hope, Jesus Christ.
- Population: 9,719,932 (July 2011 est.)
- Languages: French (official), Creole (official)
- Religions: Roman Catholic 80%, Protestant 16% none 1%, other 3% (note: roughly half of the population practices voodoo)
Visit the World Factbook for more information on Haiti.
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