“It’s a very significant day. It’s a day of pride for Haiti’s people,” says Kate Michel with Radio-TV 4VEH, a partner of TWR. “It’s usually celebrated with parades and marching bands and people dressed in Haitian national costumes.” 

The team at Radio-TV 4VEH (The Evangelistic Voice of Haiti) provided live coverage of the Flag Day parade in Cap-Haitien. (Glimpse the recorded coverage here to get a taste of what it was like!)

Haitian women at a market in Port-au-Prince, Haiti (Stock photo courtesy of Heather Suggitt via Unsplash)

But the backdrop of Haiti’s Flag Day 2026 remains sober, amid the country’s ongoing security concerns. 

Last week, Haiti’s prime minister, Alix Didier Fils-Aime, announced yet another delay in the country’s election timeline. He said August 2026 elections are not possible, suggesting the end of 2026 instead, with the idea of a new president taking office on February 7, 2027. 

Michel says delayed elections are nothing new to Haitians. “In general, people are looking for change and hopeful for change, but skeptical about the change that is promised,” she says. “I think most people are of the attitude, ‘Wait and see. We want this to work. We’re hopeful, but we need to see the proof.’”

Into this mix of hope and hard realities, 4VEH serves Haitians right where they are at. Its broadcasts include gospel programs, Bible readings, farming resources, sports coverage, and more. 

Michel says that this summer, 4VEH is preparing special coverage of Haiti’s soccer team, which qualified for the FIFA World Cup. 

“Haitians are sports fanatics, especially of football or soccer,” says Michel. “We want to be able to reach Haiti’s people who are sports fans, but may not yet be Jesus fans. It’s a way to serve Haiti’s people and provide some great content for them, which will include some gospel messages as well.”

Please pray for equipment issues to be resolved before the World Cup. Pray also for God’s blessing over 4VEH’s summer youth programs, beginning in June. 

Then, praise God! Over the Easter weekend, Michel says 160,000 people watched The Jesus Film on 4VEH’s online platforms. One viewer asked a poignant question that Michel says gets at the heart of religion in Haiti: “Can you be saved while you’re observing the law?”

“People understand about God, but it’s based on works. It’s based on the things that you need to do for salvation or the things that you need to do to appease the voodoo spirits,” she explains. “We’re able to say Jesus offers us salvation freely. We’re able to come to Him exactly as we are, and He accepts us and will forgive us. That’s great news in Haiti.”

Above all, keep praying for Haiti. 

“It’s a very complex country, with very deep, significant needs for Haiti’s people,” says Michel. “Keep praying that God will bring peace and stability, and that people will have hope in the Lord, despite what’s going on around them.”

Header photo courtesy of Radio-TV 4VEH.

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.

In October, Haitian officials declared that plans for 2026 general elections will have to be delayed due to expanding gang power. 

“It’s not a surprise that elections get delayed. It’s something that we’ve seen a number of times over the last couple of decades,” says Kate Michel with Radio-TV 4VEH, a ministry partner of Trans World Radio. 

Michel says that with more than 10% of Haiti’s 12 million people displaced, “just thinking of the logistics of how elections could be held, it’s hard to see how they could be run fairly and safely.” 

Meanwhile, life in Cap Haitien in northern Haiti is congested. Many people have fled there, away from gang violence. Michel says there’s an underlying fear that gangs in central Haiti will carry out their threats to come north. It’s one more factor that makes the gospel-centered broadcasts from 4VEH even more important for Haitians.

A Haitian woman sits in the tent encampment set up in Place Boyer, in Pétion-Ville, Haiti. (Photo courtesy of IMB)

The prayer support and biblical foundations of 4VEH’s programming remind listeners “that they have a solid foundation to stand on, and that is the Word of God and His promises, and those things that we can hold fast to,” says Michel.

Find your place in Haiti’s story

In all the turmoil, remember that Haiti is no different from other nations in its need for God’s mercy and grace to move forward.

Please pray for fair elections in Haiti next year that will build stability. Pray also for 4VEH, as it is dealing with some broken equipment and rising costs. 

“There are some people who would normally be connected to 4VEH who are not able to get those broadcasts. So we really would value the prayer to get those pieces of equipment fixed so that people can hear the programs again,” says Michel.

“We’ve seen inflation go up dramatically, and that has an impact on all of the day-to-day operations. Pray that the Lord will meet those needs so that we don’t have to cut any of the ministry that we offer.” 

Header photo courtesy of 4VEH.

Staff member Kate Michel explains they are now a multimedia ministry: 

“[We] started just doing radio [in 1950], and then in 2015 we began doing television as well. So we have a local television station in Cap-Haitien. We have a YouTube channel with 130,000 subscribers,” she says. 

Their team also connects with fellow Haitians through social media, especially with an interactive daily prayer program.

The city of Cap Haitien. Photo courtesy of samu3ld via Unsplash.com
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“[The program] is midday every day for an hour, which is guiding our listeners in praying for Haiti, for the country, for leaders, and then for each other, for the prayer requests that listeners and viewers send in,” she explains. 

People listen in to 4VEH’s Christ-centered culturally relevant content all the way from Port-au-Prince, where gang activity is at its worst. 

“The radio signal doesn’t reach there, but they do listen in other ways, like on the internet, [or] from their phones,” Michel says. “So we are supporting those listeners as well, particularly through prayer.”

4VEH takes the gospel to Haitians wherever they are — in every sense. 

“For people who are not able to access the local television station, or maybe even not able to afford batteries for their radio, we use solar-powered radios that we distribute to people in very poor areas,” says Michel. 

“We’re excited that we still are able to do that. Even with all the problems that Haiti is going through, we’re still able to go out and give out these tools for people.”

Praise God for what He’s doing to bring hope to Haiti, and pray for abundant ministry for 4VEH’s next 75 years. 

Want to hear stories of lives turned around through 4VEH? Check out their website for English listeners at 4veh.org/en. 

Header photo of children in Haiti courtesy of Zach Vessels via Unsplash. 

“Each day the gangs are taking over city by city down south, so everybody is moving,” DeHart says. 

Thousands of Haitians have been fleeing to the North of the country away from Port-au-prince. They are primarily finding lodging, along with relative stability and safety, in Cap-Haïtien. But not all is rosy there. 

“Everybody is bringing their business to Cap-Haïtien,” DeHart says. “But the inflation is still really high. People still can’t afford to eat. It’s getting very crowded.”

DeHart says to support the housing needs, her ministry built two houses last year and plans to build four more in 2025. But the influx of people is outpacing ministry capability.

Courtesy of Jörg Haller from Pixabay

“We don’t have the means to build houses for all the people that are asking us for housing,” she says.

Food is another issue. For Haiti with Love currently feeds about 100 people a day.

“Again, we don’t have the means to feed everybody. We would like to, but we can’t.” 

Adding to Haitian’s daily concerns in Cap-Haïtien is an ever-present fear that gangs will join the northward surge. 

“We are praying it doesn’t happen – that Cap-Haïtien stays safe,” DeHart says. 

Her ministry expected 500 children at their Christmas program last month. 

“We ended up having over a thousand children,” she recalls. “They got their tummy filled up, and they also got fed spiritually.” 

For Haiti with Love also hosts a medical clinic. Dehart says the staff tell patients the free services reflect the free love of Jesus. 

“They always ask us about who is this Jesus, and we tell them who Jesus is and tell them to pick a church and go to a church.” 

With the unrest and violence, Dehart says many missionaries have already left the country. 

“And I understand it is hard, but we are there and we want to continue to be there to help God’s children in Haiti,” she remarks. 

Please pray for Haiti. Pray that Haitians would look to Christ for both spiritual and physical needs, and pray that For Haiti with Love would continue to meet those whenever possible. Pray for safety of and provision for families, and pray that God’s mercy would be evident to His followers in this country.

Featured photo courtesy of Patrice S Dorsainville via Unsplash

“Even schools have stopped. It’s in the whole country, not just in one part,” says Roseline DeHart with For Haiti With Love. “There’s been mudslides, the mountains washing down, flooding. People’s houses were flooded up to their hips inside their house.”

(Photo of Haitians is a representative stock photo courtesy of TopSphere Media via Unsplash)

Cap-Haitien authorities have declared a state of environmental emergency for six months. They asked for aid from the central government, but they did not receive an immediate reply.

Although flooding may seem small compared to the nation’s broader security crises, DeHart says this still affects everyone. 

“There’s still the livelihood [struggle] there,” she explains. “How to feed their family, take care of their family… It’s all part of trying to live in Haiti, and the rain just makes it worse.”

For Haiti’s base is on a mountain, so they are not experiencing the same flooding others are. They have given from their storehouse of food to serve those in need. At every opportunity, For Haiti shares encouragement based in Scripture. But they hear what people are really thinking. 

“Mentally, physically, some are giving up. They’re wondering, ‘Why is this happening to Haiti so much?’” DeHart says,

“We tell them that, you know, Jesus loves them, that there is hope for Haiti, and it’s only in God. But they say it’s hard for them to believe that there really is a God after all that’s going on.

“But we tell them there is [a God] and He is watching over them and protecting them.”

If you’ve ever known that feeling of helpless despair, pray for Haiti. Ask God to bring Haitians to know and trust in His goodness and sovereign care, even in disaster upon disaster. 

Then, pray for the rain and floods to stop. Pray that ministries like For Haiti will be able to keep serving as the hands and feet of Christ.

“Pray for peace in Haiti,” DeHart says. 

Header photo of Haitian child is a representative stock photo courtesy of TopSphere Media via Unsplash. 

Roseline DeHart with For Haiti With Love says even though Kenyan peacekeeper forces arrived this summer, things have only grown worse. The northern city of Cap-Haitien is being inundated by people desperate for relief from the killings, abductions and hunger that have marked Haiti this year.

“People are on the streets, sleeping on the streets. They can’t eat, so they always come to our headquarters at For Haiti With Love, looking for food, for housing,” DeHart says.

(Photo of clinic courtesy For Haiti With Love)

Nearly half of the nation’s 11.7 million people face acute hunger, according to a September 30 report from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification. Among that half, 2 million are experiencing emergency levels of hunger — that means malnutrition and disease are present dangers because of extreme food shortages. 

For Haiti has continued to give out food and medical care as well as share the gospel of Christ. 

“When they come into the clinic, we always tell them about Jesus, about God, [and] if they would like to change their life, here’s what they need to do,” DeHart says. 

“Sometimes they listen and sometimes they don’t, and then they go. Sometimes they come back asking to know more about Jesus.”

The For Haiti team doesn’t ask questions of those who come to them for help. But they know there’s some risk involved in the work.

(For Haiti With Love’s headquarters, courtesy of For Haiti With Love)

“We never know who is coming up, who the people are [that are] looking for shelter. Some of them might be part of the gangs. Sometimes the gang sends up their family first, and then they come later. So security is a big problem,” DeHart says. 

“We try to do what we can, but the main thing [is] we just pray up, keep praying.” 

Ask God for the team’s protection. Consider supporting For Haiti’s work as the hands and feet of Christ to a people in crisis. 

“[Haitians] do need help. They’re very poor. They have nothing,” DeHart says. “We want to be able to continue to help. We need donations to do that.” 

Connect with For Haiti With Love at www.forhaitiwithlove.org. 

Header photo of Cap-Haitien courtesy of For Haiti With Love. 

Haiti’s transitionary council appointed a new Cabinet last week to replace the one dissolved a few months ago after the Prime Minister’s resignation.

For Haiti With Love’s Makenson Saint Fleur says the new cabinet’s formation does little to change hardship on the ground. Gangs control at least 80 percent of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince.

“The ministry (administration) in Haiti hasn’t done anything yet regarding Haiti’s security situation,” Saint Fleur says.

“Everything is still bad; nothing is okay yet.”

More than 2,500 people have been killed or injured in gang violence so far this year, including two American missionaries murdered by gang members last month. Hope rests on the UN-backed deployment of a police force from Kenya, which is expected to arrive in the coming weeks.

In northern Cap Haitien, For Haiti With Love relies on local authorities to help it distribute food.

Food distributions
(Photo courtesy of For Haiti With Love)

“If we need security, we ask the government, and we go to each place to give food to the population,” Saint Fleur says.

“For Haiti With Love stopped the food program for six months because of political problems in downtown Cap Haitien, but now everything is almost okay in Cap Haitien. For Haiti With Love [restarted] the food program because we observed that what is happening in Haiti now is a humanitarian catastrophe.”

Pray that Haitians will experience the love of Christ as they see it displayed by Gospel workers. Pray they’ll ask questions about the God who cares for them.

“The Gospel intersects with crises in Haiti by inspiring and motivating Christians to respond with compassion, justice, and reconciliation,” Saint Fleur says.

Consider donating to support For Haiti With Love’s ongoing relief efforts.

Header image courtesy of For Haiti With Love.

Last week, gang members attacked suburbs of the capital city, Port-au-Prince, killing and looting homes without check. More than 33,000 people have fled the city in the past two weeks, a report from the U.N. International Organization for Migration says.

But wherever they go, Haitians can’t avoid the crisis the nation is facing. Experts say around 1.4 million Haitians are on the brink of famine.

“I have never seen Haiti like this before,” says Roseline DeHart of For Haiti With Love, who has been involved in ministry in the nation for more than forty years.

Photo from 2020 of Pétion-Ville, one of the suburbs of Port-au-Prince where gangs carried out attacks last week. Photo courtesy of Reynaldo Mirault/Unsplash.

“We’re all holding our breath to see what’s going to happen. We can only pray and hope that it gets better, because I don’t think it can get any worse.”

For Haiti operates a clinic in the rural Cap-Haitien area. They are pointing the discouraged and hopeless to the God who is in control and is good even in the midst of the nation’s deteriorating state.

DeHart says, “We are still doing what we can for the people. We’re gonna be there until we can’t, until God tell us, ‘It’s time to close down.’”

Like the rest of the country, the clinic has no supplies coming in. 

“Haiti needs a change. Pray that it does change,” DeHart says. At the same time, she wants others to know there is more to Haiti than the grim headlines. 

“The people are beautiful, the country is beautiful. But evil has taken over right now. What (you’re) seeing on TV on the news, that’s not all Haiti. That’s just a bad part — you know, there’s evil everywhere.”

Would you pray for Haiti each day this week? Pray for revival, that people will turn to the Lord and find hope. Pray that gangs will stop attacking people and that the transitional presidential council will be able to effectively lead for the good of the nation. 

Header photo courtesy of For Haiti With Love.

Kate Michel with Radio 4VEH, a Trans World Radio partner, says, “Over the last few weeks and days, especially, tensions have been getting worse in Haiti as gang leaders have been calling for the resignation of the prime minister.”

Regional leaders call for a transitionary council to appoint Henry’s temporary replacement and organize elections, but the ‘who’s’ and ‘when’s’ of these arrangements remain unclear. Gang leaders are now pushing to be part of any power-sharing deal.

(Photo courtesy of Radio 4VEH)

“There’s a lot of chaos in Port au Prince, and people have been suffering from it. The gangs have gained a lot of control over the last couple of years; the police don’t have much authority,” Michel says.

The fact “that the Prime Minister has agreed to resign is a whisper of change. But much more needs to be done for law and order to be re-established, for people to go about their lives safely and freely and take care of their families.”

Based in northern Haiti, 4VEH continues to broadcast the hope of Christ into Haiti’s despair.

“We are continuing to ask people to pray for Haiti. This is a long and complicated situation; the headlines can’t cover all the issues,” Michel says.

“We’re thankful for the relative calm that we’ve experienced in Cap Haitiën where 4Veh is based,” she continues.

“We’ve been able to stay on the air every day, broadcasting the Gospel, helping people understand that God is still on the throne and sovereign.”

Thousands have fled the ongoing violence in Port au Prince, adding pressure to remote communities like Cap Haitiën. Their arrival “puts extra pressure on people struggling to survive there. Then, some people are turning up with no family connections, needing to start building their lives from scratch,” Michel says.

“There are a lot of needs all over the country.”

Consider adding Haiti to your daily prayer list. “Pray that this new transition will be peaceful; that the gangs will give control to those in authority who can lead Haiti well,” Michel requests.

Ask the Lord to intervene and bring peace as only He can. “He’s got a plan and a purpose, not just for Haiti the country, but for every Haitian,” Michel says.

“Keep praying and standing by and expressing concern and love for friends in Haiti.”

Header and story images courtesy of Radio 4VEH.