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El Shaddai Ministries
Minister Cross-Culturally Among the Multitudes for Christ
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Empower your mission team in Word and Deed Ministry by immersing them in the culture of Miami and/or Haiti.
Join with Mission to North America and El Shaddai as we partner to establish firm foundations for the advancement of the Gospel in southern Florida, ministering to first and second generation Haitians. Every year, 40,000 Haitians come to North America. Currently more than 475,000 Haitians make southern Florida their home. MNA Haitian Ministries seeks to meet the needs of this growing people group by planting Gospel-centered Churches, offering practical support, and demonstrating Christ’s love.
Project Overview
PCA Pastor Dony St. Germain, El Shaddai Ministries and Mission to North America are aggressively engaged in a Haitian Church Planting Movement in Haiti and the United States. Our MNA ShortTerm projects are designed to assist in this great work. As stable, self-supporting churches are planted the Gospel is advancing. Prayerfully consider how you can partner with us in 2007.
ShortTerm Opportunities in 2007 in Miami
Construction teams. El Shaddai’s offices were destroyed by fire last fall as a result of Hurricane Wilma. This office building provided space for several Haitian church planters, administrative space for the El Shaddai School, a neighborhood library and computer lab for the schoolchildren and for adults from the community. Dony is formulating a plan to reconstruct this building and other buildings on the campus that are vital to the ministry. Volunteer teams may be able to assist in this. The repair of local homes and church buildings allows the development of lasting relationships with the Haitian people.
Day camp/mercy ministry combo. Mornings are invested in teaching first and second generation Haitian children and in the afternoon serving the local community in various physical mercy ministries. Backyard Bible Clubs, VBS, and teaching ESL are all possibilities.
Sports clinics. Coaching Haitian youth provides many opportunities to strengthen our relationship with local families and make new friends. About 75 percent of the people who come to the churches come through developed relationships with family members or friends.
Cost
Per Person: $200.00—This includes resource materials, housing and lodging—everything you will need while participating. Fees are paid directly to El Shaddai Ministries. The fees you pay are for the sole purpose of covering costs for the ministry or church with whom you are serving; MNA receives no income or financial benefit from the fees you pay.
Accommodations
Teams will stay with church families or at the church building.
Travel
Driving. Arrive on Saturday afternoon. This allows your team to worship at one of the Haitian Church Plants on Sunday. Sunday afternoon you will take a brief sightseeing trip around the city and attend a ministry orientation in the evening. Ministry will begin on Monday morning. Wednesday afternoon affords some free time to explore the culture of Miami and worship at a local church plant. Projects should conclude by Friday evening, allowing a Saturday departure for home. Custom trips can be designed.
Flying. Arrange your travel to Miami or Fort Lauderdale airports. Rent vans or cars at the airport and drive to El Shaddai Ministries in Miami.
ShortTerm Opportunities in 2007 in Haiti
Construction Teams. Workers who have construction skills and construction apprentices are needed to help build schools and churches in the communities in the region south of Port-au-Prince. Other projects include repairing homes damaged by flooding in 2005. We are also helping with construction projects that enable churches and schools to be self-sustaining by ownership of profit centers, businesses that create jobs and income for the depressed communities.
Medical Teams. Health care professionals are in severe shortage in Haiti, and teams are needed to work in local medical clinics. Can you bring a team of healthcare workers or join in with a team that is already being formed?
VBS and backyard Bible clubs. If your team is already doing this type of ministry in your church, it is easy for your team members to teach the same material in Haiti. Some churches order enough material for both the US and Haiti at the same time to reduce costs. Others have created their own materials.
Drama and puppet ministry. A great way to interact with the children (and adults).
Cost
Per Person: $475—This includes resource materials, housing and lodging, and air travel and local transportation while in the country—everything you will need while participating. Fees are paid directly to El Shaddai Ministries. Mission to North America does not receive administrative fees for participation on any projects. We want you to use God’s money for ministry.
Accommodations
Teams will stay with church families or at the church building.
Travel
You must arrange for travel to Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. Arrive on Saturday as early as possible. You will then take another flight arranged by us to an airport closer to the village where you will be working. We will supply ground transportation to the village that you are assigned. This allows your team to worship at one of the Haitian church plants on Sunday. Sunday afternoon you will take a brief sightseeing trip around town and attend a ministry orientation meeting in the evening. Ministry will begin on Monday morning. Wednesday afternoon affords some free time to explore the culture of Miami and worship at a local church plant. Projects should conclude by Friday evening, allowing a Saturday departure for home. Custom trips can be designed. Contact us if you need help arraigning travel to Haiti; we have a lot of experience.
Notice: All travelers to Haiti must have valid passports. Your team must plan to get a passport now!
Under new government regulations travelers to and from the Caribbean are required to have a passport to enter or re-enter the United States. To find out how to get a passport, visit the State Department's travel Web site at http://www.travel.state.gov, or call the U.S. National Passport Information Center at 877-487-2778. To find a passport issuing location near you, click here: http://www.iafdb.travel.state.gov/.
What Others Have Said
“In the beginning, we were able to plant a church for $15,000. To make a living, the church pastor worked the land in some way–one pastor built a fish farm, another grew roses, another raised pigs. Last year, we gave money to build bakeries. We built three bakeries for $20,000-$30,000 each. Right now, we are helping to build three new churches with bakeries for $35,000 each. In this way, all the churches are self-supporting. Three years ago, we helped purchase an ice factory in Haiti. Its profits are going toward building a church facility in Cayes that will seat 5,000 people and will be the only air-conditioned building in the city. We also were able to provide equipment for a filtered water well in front of this church. Each day, 700 or more people line up to get free filtered water.”
—Pastor David Nicholas, Spanish River PCA
Need more information?
Contact Arklie Hooten ahooten@pcanet.org / 678-294-3011 or
Sherry Lanier
MNA ShortTerm Missions and Disaster Response Facilitator
678-294-3012
slanier@pcanet.org
Sharon St. Germain esmieletter@aol.com / 786-200-9422 or
Frank Maiorana, team coordinator, Frank@greatcommissionalliance.org
Read about El Shaddai and Haitian Ministries in Multiply.
MNA ShortTerm Missions bridges ministries with needs to those individuals who can help meet that need. The partnerships created when we collectively work towards goals that advance the kingdom are powerful ones. Some new projects added recently include Restore St. Louis and Hurricane Relief work in Columbia MS. Click here for a full list of ministry opportunities you can become involved in.
