History

Haïti: Impoverished Land of Overwhelming Needs

“Haiti is the poorest nation in the Western hemisphere,” stated a group of missionaries in 1949.  Over two decades later, we missionaries repeat the same slogan. Haiti has degenerated, from exploitation, multiple hurricanes, famine, the January 12^th earthquake, and most recently the cholera epidemic.

• Haiti’s problem certainly is spiritual, permeating all domains from food shortages, immorality, abject poverty, healthcare disparities, exploitation, and illiteracy. 

 

• In 1984, Rev. Jesumond and Mrs. Wiladine Pierrilus left Canada after founding Christ’s Messengers In Action, Inc. as an answer to the Great Commission to serve as missionaries in their native land.

 

• In 1980, supported by their hard labor and Sister Mary Austen, they opened a school in the brush arbor church in Haut St. Marc with 45 children who were passing barefoot along the dirt road as they chewed sugarcane.

 

• Today, this church that is also home to the school, “Ecole Mary Austen“, has educated thousands. We continue to focus on Total Community Development.