Haiti Update
Greetings!
This past year, we traveled back to Haiti for the first time in three years to meet and encourage the students and teachers and to expand the staff and ministry in that country. We added two new Haitian staff, Dorestant Clotaire and Maxene Mecien, who are actively promoting and expanding the ministry.

The new staff in Haiti have begun to reach out from their new bases of operations in the north and northwest and in the south. They have conducted orientations with churches and pastors in these areas and are preparing to co-lead Teacher Training Workshops (TTW) with their experienced counterparts in November to train new teachers and start classes in these regions.
 
Please read on to hear how these two men and the other members of the CCI Haiti Team are impacting God's Kingdom.
Ric Hesse
CCI North America & Caribbean Regional Director
Haiti Staff Update
Dorestant Clotaire traveled to Maniche and met with Evangelical Church of Grace to share the ministry and the training available through CCI. Then, he traveled to Tiby to meet with Beloved of God’s Church in Christ, where the pastor committed to starting classes and they are working out when to conduct a TTW (likely in November).
 
Maxene Mecien went to Terbodiere to meet with the church pastor. We will be making a motivational presentation to the church leadership and Maxene will followed up with them. He then, went to Navion and met with the Baptist Church by Faith. The pastor had already registered for a TTW in November and plans to start his first class in December.
 
Both of these men, with the guidance and discipleship of Pastor Calixte, are hitting the ground running and already beginning the process of expanding the ministry into these new areas. These are two of the more rural and remote regions of Haiti, away from major population centers, and they are really receptive to opportunities being provided through CCI.
 
As you read above, Pastor Calixte is actively working with both Dorestant and Maxene in training and equipping them as co-laborers with the staff in Haiti to promote CCI and expand the ministry. But he is also teaching several classes and regularly visiting classes in the Port-au-Prince areas. He also maintains the inventory of Creole language books in the country and is responsible for arranging distribution as needed.
Even though David Castille continues to have health concerns for his wife, he remains active in teaching and overseeing classes in northern Haiti and working with Haitian teachers in the northern areas of the Dominican Republic.  He is also, working with Pastor Mecien to prepare him to conduct a TTW and promote the ministry in the north and northwest.
 
Pastor Louis Jean-Dieu Saindius continues to be in contact and is actively working to expand the ministry in AOR despite the limitation of the pandemic response. He now has a motorbike that allows him more ready access to the northwestern peninsula.
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Testimony
Matt (pictured on the center far side of the table) came to faith in Christ as an adult and clearly felt God calling him into leadership in some form. He was praying for insight from God on how to pursue this when he heard that we would be providing training at his local church. He said, “This was the answer to my every prayer…Since starting this training I see the Bible in a new way. I’m even more excited to read and to do what God has said and God is using me to reach into my home, workplace, and ministries in a new, more effective way.”
Prayer Requests & Praises
·      Pray for the two classes that plan to graduate. One in Cap Haitian has completed the training but has invited David Nelson to participate in the graduation. As a result, they will be graduating in January. The other, in the DR is preparing for graduation in December. Please pray for these graduates that they will apply their training to start new classes and help make mature reproducing disciples of Jesus.
 
·      Pray for the ongoing security concerns in Haiti that are impacting our staff, students and their families as the fears and threats of kidnappings and gang activity are impacting the ministry.
 
·      Praise God for the fruitful outcome of our most recent trip to Haiti and pray for the upcoming trip in January for the graduation and the first presentation of the God’s Financial Principles seminar to pastors there.
 
·      Pray for Pastor Benjamin as he continues to work in the Dominican Republic expanding the ministry among both Creole and Dominican churches in the country. 
 
·     Pray for Noah Joyner and the Hispaniola Institute of Theology, which is greatly expanding its training in the north of the Dominican Republic.
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