{"id":6,"date":"2019-05-22T17:10:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T17:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.brethren.org\/haiti-medical-project\/roots\/"},"modified":"2021-08-02T21:07:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T21:07:33","slug":"roots","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/haiti-medical-project\/roots\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical Roots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Amazing Growth in the Haitian Church<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Beginning in 2003 the Haitian American Brethren in Florida began to plant churches in the home communities of some of their members. This work was led by members of the Miami Haitian congregation. By 2008 when Brethren Disaster Ministries began work related to tropical storm flood damage, 8 new churches were on hand and became partners in the disaster work. A Haitian National Committee was formed and nurtured and helped develop the shape of a new Haitian Brethren denomination. Over the past 18 years that handful of churches has grown rapidly to 30 if we include several preaching points. We have seen amazing growth! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Devastating Disasters\u2014Visionary Response<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
Photo by Mark Myers, http:\/\/www.sr-pro.com<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The growing new church has emerged during a time of national disasters. Following the floods of 2008, they experienced the crushing earthquake of 2010 in which 350,000 persons died and many thousands of persons lost their homes. Additional damaging tropical storms were experienced in 2016 and another earthquake rocked the northern coast in 2018. The new churches have provided counsel and hands-on assistance to our disaster program leaders, and in return have found a desire to work for the betterment of their communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Advocacy for a Medical Ministry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In the wake of the great earthquake of 2010 the Haitian leaders \nadvocated for a medical response to the disasters. In the weeks \nfollowing the earthquake Brethren Disaster Ministries responded by \nproviding a medical and trauma healing team to spend a week on site and \nto minister to persons in need. During this one week experience the \nteam served over 1,500 persons through mobile clinics, often on church \nproperties. A spark was lit and a concept that became the Haiti Medical\n Project began to emerge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haiti Medical Project Formed<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A concept developed through conversations in the US and in Haiti. By\n the fall of 2011 three Haitian doctors agreed to organize and \ncoordinate a mobile clinic team. Volunteers in the US began to scurry \nto find ways of generating funds to launch this brave new venture. By \nthe beginning of 2012 we were on our way, targeting 12 clinics the first\n year. The new vision met with an immediate and strong response from \nthe Brethren that has challenged and driven us to today\u2019s level of \ninvesting about $390,000 annually in meeting human needs in Haiti.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amazing Growth in the Haitian Church Beginning in 2003 the Haitian American Brethren in Florida began to plant churches in the home communities of some of their members. This work was led by members of the Miami Haitian congregation. By 2008 when Brethren Disaster Ministries began work related to tropical storm flood damage, 8 new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/haiti-medical-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/haiti-medical-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/haiti-medical-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/haiti-medical-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/haiti-medical-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/haiti-medical-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/haiti-medical-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/haiti-medical-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}