Haiti (MNN) — Standing firm through both the good times and the bad sends a powerful message. Roseline DeHart says For Haiti With Love is there for every season. She says candidly, “In Haiti’s term, it’s ‘bad times’ or ‘very bad times.’”
DeHart says many Haitians they serve are exhausted by the struggle for daily needs.
“Sometimes they don’t want to hear the gospel. So we show them love. We show them what the gospel is,” she says. “Then they will listen when we tell them about Jesus, when we tell them about the gospel.”
Food distributions
(Photo courtesy of For Haiti With Love)
The ministry provides food, clothing, shelter, medical care for burn victims, and more. That work can only be done with God’s help, given the chaos in Haiti today. The nation has lacked a stable central government since the assassination of its president nearly five years ago in July 2021.
“A lot of people are leaving the cities where the gangs are, for safety. Nothing they can do about it,” says DeHart.
In the northern city of Cap-Haitien, the infrastructure can’t handle the influx of people fleeing gang violence.
“Kids on the streets, families on the streets — and trash has doubled. There is so much trash in Cap-Haitien now,” DeHart says.
Haiti’s reality continues to be sobering, but God’s promises remain.
“We need people to pray for Haiti,” says DeHart. “Without God’s help, Haiti cannot change at all.”
In this hard season, For Haiti With Love continues to see glimpses of God’s work. DeHart says former patients from the burn clinic have returned to say they are now attending church. “All because of showing them God’s love,” she says. Another story that encouraged DeHart was when one of the ministry’s security guards shared that he had become a Christian.
Survivors from a boat explosion receive treatment at For Haiti’s burn clinic. (Photo courtesy of For Haiti With Love)
“It’s all because of contributors helping us to do what God is sending us to do in Haiti,” DeHart says.
Remember the people of Haiti in prayer. Ask God how He may want you to take part in His work there.
“Haiti is a beautiful place, and its people are even more beautiful,” says DeHart. “They’re being forgotten. But they’re God’s children too, and they need help.”
Header photo courtesy For Haiti With Love.
