Epiphany Lutheran Church is a SERVANTcommunity who stands with and works for justice among the poor, the powerless and the disenfranchised with the compassion of Christ that has no limits or boundaries.

Join us in creating a future of hope, sustainability, and dignity for the children of Haiti. Grassroots support has proved most effective in getting financial resources deployed directly to the people.

Sponsor a child, help a family, educate a college student, or let HTF direct your dollars where most needed. Click here to access the donation page on HTF's website.

Youth Mission Immersion Trip
June 30 - July 10, 2012

Team Haiti Log In Here

January 22-29, 2012

July 2-12, 2011
Click for an overview of the trip and for a reflection from a participant.

St. Joseph's Home for Boys takes the most broken among the children of the streets and child slaves and raises them up to be the best they can be. The home was destroyed in the January 2010 earthquake; with HTF assistance it has been dismantled and is being rebuilt. St. Joseph's is the home of the Resurrection Dance Theatre of Haiti.  (Location: Delmas 91, Port-au-Prince)

Trinity House is a member of the St. Joseph Family. The home takes the rejected ones of the streets and society and raises them up to be the best they can be. (Location: Jacmel)

Wings of Hope, another St. Joseph Family ministry, is the premier residential facility in Haiti for physically and mentally challenged children. Through love and intentionall focus, children who were once thrown away, considered to be of no value, are being raised up as productive and contributing people. (Location: Fermathe)

Fondasyon Tetkole is a community-based initiative that seeks the highest at-risk children, generally orphaned and living on the streets, and raises them up to be educated and productive. (Location: Jacmel)

Chemen Lavi Miyò is a partnership with Fonkoze, Haiti's Bank for the Poor. This ground-breaking and leading edge project aims to alleviate extreme poverty in Haiti by raising up, empowering, and placing families in Haiti's Central Plateau region (primarily single mothers and their children) on a path to a better life. The goal is to change the lives of 5,000 families by 2017. (Location: Boukan Kare area in the Central Plateau)

Haitian Education and Leadership Program (HELP) is a merit and need-based university scholarship program that helps to build a productive middle class in Haiti, changing the future for many families. (Headquarter in Port-au-Prince; nationwide in scope)

Lekòl sen Trinitè is a Montessori school for children of ultra-poor families. The children are receive an education and, importantly, food. (Location: Jacmel)

Pazapa is a community outreach for physical and mentally challenged children and their families. The center was destroyed by the earthquake; a new facility now is being constructed. (Locaton: outside of Jacmel)

House of Blessings is a model of taking orphaned children and raising them up as educated and contributing members of Haitian society. (Locaton: Callebasse, Kenskoff)

CLM Transforms Lives

CLM BeforeDieuna Francois was born into an ultra-poor family. As a teen, she was left to care for two siblings when both of her parents were pulled away from home -- her father to find work, her mother to find care for an ailing child. Desperate for food for herself and her siblings, Dieuna moves in with a man in exchange for food. She soon becomes pregnant. The man stays with her, but he cannot earn enough as a day laborer to feed their family. They go days with no food. She must borrow sandals to walk anywhere beyond her small thatch hut. She is in the same cycle of extreme poverty she was born into. She has no vision and no means to change her life. She has no hope. 

Thankfully, others did have a vision for a better life for Dieuna Francois and her family. And now she's living it. The vision is carried out through Chemen Lavi Miyò -- path to a better life. CLM is an 18-month program that serves to lift Haitian women out of extreme poverty. In addition to being very poor, the women are isolated from the communities around them. They typically have no employment, no access to clean water or health care. They never have enough food. Children do not go to school. 

CLM AfterThanks to CLM and its investment in her -- through gifts from people like you -- Dieuna is living a transformed life. She has a small business, her family has food to eat. Her children have shoes to wear and go to school. She's improved her house with concrete walls, a metal roof, and a latrine in the back. She is saving money. Thanks to gifts to CLM, she has hope for the future. 

A gift of only $1,200 will sponsor one family for the 18-month program. Partial sponsorships also are possible.Please click here to give today.

Last Published: December 4, 2011 10:14 PM
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