HAÏTI

HAITI

Presentation

Haiti is more than 11 million inhabitants, the UEBH is present in 5 departments out of 9 (center and north).
The Partnership with the Biblical Mission comes from a desire of the UEBH to broaden its relations towards Europe: exchanges with the churches, finding human resources with the Biblical Mission and secondly to solve the enormous needs in Haiti (materials …) in addition to what CrossWorld (formerly UFM) brings today through the many missionaries present in Haiti.
CrossWorld is in favor of opening up to other partners, it wishes to broaden the collaboration because the departure of its missionaries leaves the UEBH with problems of resources, management, structures... Evangelization and edification cannot exist without the development of the 'male.

SOME NUMBERS

Regions

Places of worship

Number of Faithful

Pastors

Faithful baptized

faithful baptized

Historical

UEBH (Evangelical Baptist Union of Haiti) comes from the missionary work of an English pastor Alfred Pearce who arrived in 1925 in the north of the island in Port-de-Paix. From 1943 the UFM Mission (USA) developed the field in the northwest of the country as far as Port-au-Prince. In 1976 the UFM merged with the UEBH by placing these missionaries at the service of the UEBH and handing over all the land and properties to it.

Nowadays

the UEBH has more than 100 churches with 60,000 members including 40,000 baptized. The largest Church (Bolosse) has more than 2000 baptized. It is established in four of the nine departments of Haiti and in the Dominican Republic. Its head office is located at 261 route des Dalles in Port-au-Prince. The number of pastors and evangelists exceeds 100. The UEBH collaborates with the other Protestant and Evangelical Churches of Haiti. It is recognized as a public utility by the Haitian State and enjoys NGO status.

The UEBH is the grouping of several churches born of local evangelization and more or less independent. It maintains fraternal relations with the other unions of Churches (Missions) present in Haiti.

The needs in Haiti are immense and the poverty is absolute. In an empty political context, only the Church can offer hope. About 30% of Christians try to live their faith in witnessing and sharing what little they have.

Solidarity Haiti

The Biblical Mission, through the UEBH, provides assistance to vulnerable populations:
- Sanitation (latrines),
- Drinking water supply,
- Fight against cholera,
- Feed,
- rebuilding,
- Sensitization of the Churches to the needs of the surrounding community.

education, teaching

Less than 50% of children attend school. The Biblical Mission supports educational projects for street children in Port-au-Prince.

Lekol pou yo tou "the school for them too" welcomes and teaches free of charge nearly 300 underprivileged children from the Bolosse district. Many of them are now in high school or college.

Medical help

The Béraca Medical Center, in the north of the country, treats a very poor population that does not have access to care. The various departments: paediatrics, surgery, maternity… welcome hundreds of patients every day.

Following the earthquake, the UEBH opened a “mobile clinic” in Port-au-Prince which receives around fifty patients a day. Care is provided to the very poor population of this district.

House of Hope

La Maison d'Espoir welcomes sick children, while providing them with physical, emotional and spiritual care. But the crisis in Haiti is making things difficult. Finding food for this large family requires great efforts on the part of those responsible.

Pray for the staff who make important decisions for the care of the children, for the smooth running of the Center and for the material and financial needs.

House of AGI (International Golden Age)

Support for the poorest seniors is provided in Haiti, Ivory Coast, Cambodia, India, Burundi, Madagascar and soon in Congo. Let us pray that the joy of self-sacrifice and the means to pursue this united momentum together may continue in 2023.

The beneficiaries thank AGI for their generosity. Let us support in prayer those who are engaged with the needy, on the spot, sometimes at the risk of their lives

Development projects

The objectives of the UEBH are:

Evangelize and strengthen Christians in their faith. Misery forces the UEBH to help with social development, a primary school but also social works are generally located next to local churches. Every pastor is also a development agent, and he needs guidance and help to accomplish this task.

Pieces

The UEBH is interested in the development of man in his entire being. For this, in parallel with the teaching of the word of God, she has developed many works of a social nature.

the Evangelical School of the Bible offers Bible training for any Christian who desires it.

The Evangelical Theological Seminary of Port-au-Prince (STEP) offers a 4-year university theological education.

Primary and secondary schools (more than 150) accommodate more than 25,000 students. Maranatha Evangelical College is located in the western districts of Port-au-Prince (Bolosse). Created in 1956, it offers secondary education to 850 students who do not all have the means to attend a private school. around forty students graduate each year with their baccalaureate diploma. A Vocational Technical School helps to integrate young people into working life. Vocational Training Centers: in Port au Prince and Beraca (north of the country). These establishments train 180 students of rural origin in the following trades: cabinetmaking, carpentry, ironwork, electricity, plumbing, sewing, cutting, pastry... 60% of graduates find a job, 20% continue their studies.

A hospital and several health centers offer their services in underprivileged regions (Hospital at La Pointe) with a reception center for sick and underprivileged children: (the House of Hope) about fifty children are cared for and more than 150 meals are served per day.

A printing press in Port-au-Prince: La Presse Evangélique publishes several books in French and Creole. Several development projects are proposed by the UEBH such as the protection of drinking water by the construction of latrines in the poor and desert region of the northwest of the island.

UEBH OFFICE - Haiti

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The Biblical Mission is above all a mission of sending personnel, but it also brings its assistance to the development actions of our partners and emergency aid.