It has been a record breaking year for RMI. Through your support and financial partnership with us we have been able to have a significant and life transforming impact in Southern Haiti.
The following is just a sample of what has been going on this past year.
C3 Partnerships
RMI Haitian Staff facilitated 40 team trips - the highest number of teams in one year ever
Our Haitian Partner churches and RMI teams registered over 520 salvations
Many hurricane damaged roofs were either repaired or replaced. This includes churches, schools, parsonages and homes.
163 water filters were distributed improving the health of those families and their neighbors
963 goats were distributed to provide sources of income for those families
3 new C3 partnerships and 2 new associate partnerships were begun
Hope for Kidz & School Education
2,366 children are now sponsored through Hope for Kidz
5,700 children received a daily hot lunch
16,796 children’s health were improved through the Hope for Kidz de-worming program
Haiti Operations Team
Processed 15 food containers - - that is 310 tons of food (which is 18,260 boxes of food - each one of which were handled at least 3 times - or 3,944,160 meals)
6 new Haitian employees were hired covering areas such as partnership facilitator, Hope for Kidz, mechanics and guard duty
Maintained 12 vehicles and 7 motorcycles to keep the ministry up and running
Acquired 4 “new-to-us” vehicles to augment our aging fleet
RMI USA
5 new missionaries: Joslynn Stakes and Janae Stork are teachers at the missionary children’s school and have been there since late August; Dawn Shoemaker will be going in March; Jeff and Christina Speel are on target to go in September; and Jim and April Starkey are just starting to raise their support, hoping to go in 2019.
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Who are RMI’s “boots on the ground”? Who is on the front lines, carrying out all these ministries? These folks. They are leaders, translators, guards, cooks, do cleaning and laundry, mechanics, chauffeurs, data entry, teachers, “go-fers”, IT specialists, gardners, agronomists, veterinarian techs, menu planners, purchasers, and photographers. They are multi-taskers and multi-talented servants of God.
In December, RMI held an appreciation fun day for the entire staff. It was full of festivities and included a great dinner – that they didn’t have to cook or serve themselves. RMI president, Dan Shoemaker, RMI Board member, John Peterson, and RMI US employee, John Miner were able to be there to share with the staff and affirm each of them in their service to our Lord and to RMI. They are the ones actually making ministry happen for their own people. The day included a giant game of Jenga and multiple drawings for gifts that the US staff brought with them. You can see all of the pictures from that day HERE.
It is with a heavy heart that we share the passing of one of our C3 Partner church pastors. Yesterday, Jan. 17, 2018, Corail pastor Jean Claude Audoul was riding his motorcycle in Les Cayes, near the mission center, when a a bicyclist turned into his path. He was able to swerve to miss him, however, he was thrown from his motorcycle into the path of an oncoming vehicle, and was struck and killed. He leaves behind his wife and five children. [The family picture was taken in 2012.] 
The RMI staff will be making a visit to the Corail church and Pastor Audoul’s wife and children this week.