What Do You Want For Christmas?!

Your opportunities to give a gift to your Sister Church pastor or your supported Hope for Kidz child are here.  You could mark the gift (s) unspecified, and the gift would go to a needy Haitian family.

There are gifts for individuals or for families.  There are gifts for adults and kids.  You can't go wrong with any of these gifts.  They will meet the needs of hurting families.  

Remember Haiti as you do your holiday shopping!

Scan the QR code or donate HERE.

A Visit from Feed My Starving Children Leaders

Last week, we were very thankful to have representatives from Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) visit us in our Haiti office. FMSC is the organization that we partner with for our Hot Lunch Program and other food case gifts. Benjamin, Perguens, and Patrick had the pleasure of sitting with the Vice President, Junior Obrand, the Regional Director, Isaac Exalus, and Haiti agent, Maillard. They were here to touch base and check on long-term partners. While here, they visited our depot to see where we store the food and a local school where we provide food. Benjamin shares that it was a very successful visit. We have a positive relationship with FMSC and are grateful that we are partners.

Feed My Starving Children Vice President Junior Obrand

RMI Field Leader, Benjamin Altema and Perguens Hyppolite, an RMI senior Partnership Facilitator and Assistant Administrator.

Inspecting the cases of food and the required secure room where it is kept.

Greeting the school staff before visiting the classrooms.

The end goal...feeding hungry children, meeting their nutritional needs.

Fall Food Fundraiser - We Have Food Available!

We do have food available! Despite the gangs’ stranglehold on Port-au-Prince, we have found a way to get our containers of food to our depot in Cayes. This involves shipping them on a barge to a closer port and trucking them the rest of the way. It increases our costs quite a bit, but it gets the food to us. We’ve supplied the Hot Lunch Program with the food it needs and have food available for our fall food fundraiser.

Haiti’s food crisis is worse than it has ever been.  Your brothers and sisters need your help!  Please consider how you, your family, and your church can be involved.

Here are the price breakdowns:

• Each case is $45 and comes with one bottle of cooking oil.

• Buy 25 cases,  get 1 case free.

• Buy 110 cases, get 10 free.

Scan the QR code to be taken right to the donation page or 

go to www.RMIbridge.org/donate

Be a part of what God is doing in Haiti!

Three C3 partner churches from the Gainesville, FL, area visited Haiti last month.  The trip enabled 2 churches to check on major projects they are involved in.  The third church attended the dedication of their new church building and school, which was just finished - and the dedication of the new cistern under the sanctuary!  We shared about this in the August 2023 issue of the Ministry Highlights.  They built the church on top of a 13,000-gallon cistern.  The water would be accessed by a solar pump.

RMI President, Dan Shoemaker, joined the team.  They met the RMI Haiti staff, several pastors from the district, and the president of MEBSH at the new sanctuary to cut the ribbon and for a service of dedication.  

What a celebration! Many dignitaries delivered special messages and prayers, and different choirs sang special songs. After the service, they shared a meal together. The church really rolled out the red carpet.

The church, school, and especially the cistern will minister to the entire community for many years!

Team leader Tom and Dan Shoemaker

Field Updates

 Dominican Republic Update:

The Starkey family has been in Santiago, Dominican Republic, for a month. They are officially all moved into their home except for one last shipment from their house in Haiti, which will arrive shortly. They have been working hard on moving in, getting all their accounts set up, phone numbers, and such there in the DR and starting to learn the area. They found a car and will be able to purchase it this week. 

Now that they have moved into their home and are settled, Jim and April spend a few hours each day working on their language lessons. April has also started homeschooling the three oldest boys. Zeke’s school situation is still uncertain and a cause for much prayer.

Please also pray for them as they focus on this part of the ministry now, learning the language to be more effective in ministry there. 

In the coming days, they will have their first meeting with the national church committee that RMI is partnering with and will head out into the country to specific areas to assess the needs and determine how RMI can help.

They are still short on monthly support. RMI sent them down on faith! Pray that God will supply the last bit that they lack. You can give at www.rmibridge/donate.

Haiti Update:

Tessa Andrews took a quick furlough trip to visit family and supporting churches this past summer.  It was a whirlwind trip but refreshing and well worth the time.  She is home now and enjoying being back with her Haitian co-workers and family.  Pray for Tessa as she works in the Hope for Kidz Department.

Andrew, Dawn, and Layton Tlucek are staying in the Ft. Myers, FL area while Dawn grows their twins.  While her pregnancy is high-risk, Dawn and the babies are doing well.  They are fundraising for the Ezra Institute, visiting their supporters, and working remotely while they await the twins’ arrival sometime in December.  Pray for Andrew and Dawn as they work to establish the Ezra Institute.

Continue to pray for Haiti.  The gangs are firmly entrenched, and the Kenyan forces have been ineffective thus far.  We need God to move mountains and break Satan's hold on the country!

A New Team Member for RMI!

It is our pleasure to announce that we have a new RMI Team Member.

We want to welcome Rob Thompson! It's great to welcome a new team member who already means so much to each of us and to RMI. As a bonus, he won't need a lot of training.

Rob is joining RMI as the Director of Ministry Development.  He will be working with our existing C3 partners to encourage them to stay engaged even with the issues in Haiti and will be encouraging them to continue with projects and even to begin planning team trips.  He'll also be working on growing our C3 partnerships in Haiti and our new field, the Dominican Republic.  He will also be working on fundraising and possibly using his field knowledge to assist with development in both Haiti and the DR. He has his work cut out for him, but we know he is up for the task.

In his words…"Although I'm incredibly sad to be stepping away from pastoral ministry at Beacon Church, I'm also ecstatic about my return to RMI. These last 5 years at Beacon Church have been wonderful. As I reflect upon this move, I'm reminded of my love for the church; it is God's chosen instrument to bring glory to himself. I've been serving the church in a variety of ways for the last 28 years. My return to RMI is simply a continuation of my work for the church. I truly believe that God has incredible things in store for us as we partner together for the gospel and for the building and strengthening of the church. Together, the church, His hands, and feet, we are witnesses here in Galloway, NJ, and throughout the United States, and to the ends of the earth."

You can contact Rob through his email at rob.thompson@rmibridge.org.

Introducing the Ezra Institute

The Ezra Institute School of Leadership is RMI’s newest initiative.  We have been committed to child education for years through our Hope for Kidz Child Sponsorship Program.  The Ezra Institute is aimed at high school graduates who have demonstrated leadership potential and been vetted by their spiritual leadership.  The goal is to equip and empower students to lead in their church, workplace, and community through a Biblical worldview.

The Ezra Institute desires for students to Learn It, Live It, and Lead It (Ezra 7:10). First (Learn It), they will get a relevant and quality education that elevates their walk with Christ, leadership skills, and vocational skills. Secondly (Live It), students will be mentored by mature local leaders. This will provide the opportunity to practice what they are learning as they engage with their local communities.  Finally (Lead It), after completing the program, students will be equipped to be godly disciple-makers, trained leaders, and skilled employees. The Ezra Institute’s foundational curriculum emphasizes multiplying and empowering others through Christ to bring transformative change.

Ezra will be located at RMI’s headquarters in Cayes, Haiti.  During the 2-year course, students will participate in courses such as The Person of Christ, early church history, New Testament Survey, and Old Testament Survey to help them develop Biblical Christ-centered living. 

Students will also take courses such as Biblical Leadership, Leading like Christ, Biblical Ethics, and Modern Leadership from a Christian Worldview to help them become impactful leaders of integrity. 

Lastly, students will learn vocational skills from courses such as Administration, Management, Business, Ethics, English, Computing, and many others.

We are very excited about the opening of the Ezra Institute.  RMI’s Director of Adult Education, Dr. Andrew Tlucek, will be the chief “driver” of the Institute.  God has been preparing him for many years for this and he’s eagerly anticipating the start of the school year.

The Ezra Institute will be funded by generous donations from individuals and churches alike! If you would like to be a part of this incredible opportunity to develop Biblical leaders who will impact Haitian society, please join us in this endeavor. There are several ways to do so through

Student sponsorship

School projects

General fund

​​We need your prayerful support! 

If you feel God is leading you to help with funding the preparation of Haiti’s next generation of leaders and the Ezra Institute, you can do so at www.RMIbridge.org/donate.  Feel free to share the Ezra Institute’s new video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdtvwmlZPZY.