RMI Needs New Missionaries

If you feel called by God to be in full-time ministry, then we need you!  RMI is open to couples, families, or singles.  Almost any profession can be used on the mission field.  You never know how God will use you!  

Jim and April Starkey have been in Haiti 4 years, going on 5 in the fall.  They have their hands full with their responsibilities as well as 4 kids!  

Jim wears many “hats”.  He works closely with the SunTech team, going out to help with solar panel installations on churches, schools, parsonages, and offices.  Another “hat” is as a missionary host when teams come, which means he goes out with the team while they are visiting their C3 partner church.

Jim’s newest “hat” is as the C3 Partnerships Manager.  He is the point man between the C3 coordinators in the states and the Partnership Facilitators in Haiti. He receives church updates, project estimates, and the like and communicates these back and forth between Haitian and US Sister Churches. He has worked hard since being assigned this role to have a video chat with every single C3 coordinator in the states. One of his goals is to establish better communications between Haitian and US C3 partners.  Judging by the positive feedback we are receiving, he is already doing a great job at this!  

Jim also travels to Haitian C3 partner churches with his drone and camera, getting footage to put together video updates to send to the US partner churches.  In addition, he and Steving, an RMI employee, set up the Starlink system at the RMI office for RMI and the entire mission center.  They maintain and troubleshoot it as it provides reliable, fast internet for RMI and other organizations to conduct their ministries.

Community living on a mission center has given him responsibilities as well.  He is the Chair of the Housing Committee and works hard with that whether he is in Haiti or the states. There is plenty of work in that position. 

April cares for and homeschools their children, some with special needs (ages from 4 months to 13 years old).  When possible she goes out from time to time to take pictures and get video footage to help capture all that RMI is doing.  She has also produced several videos for C3 partners or special projects that RMI has done.

Not every missionary’s experience is like the Starkey’s. “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few (Luke 10:2).”  RMI acutely feels “the workers are few” part of that verse.  We need new missionaries!  While the need is immediate, we know that applying, preparing, and raising funds to go to the mission field takes time.  If you feel called, don’t delay in exploring where God wants to use you.  Email RMI President, Dan Shoemaker, at dan.shoemaker@rmibridge.org or contact one of our missionaries to get the conversation started.