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K i n g d o m S t e wa r d s h i p their Haitian neighbors and to enable American and foreign churches to serve the churches of Haiti. Initial projects involved strengthening and rebuilding churches and supplying resources to help churches provide clinics, schools, orphanages, trade schools, and so on, to their communities. The organization identified leadership in about twenty-five churches and communities that needed help in church and community relief, restoration, rebuilding, and transformation, and which had both transformational and sustainable Haitian leadership. In addition to assisting churches, HaitiServe was set up to help health care providers serve their counterparts in Haiti and similarly to assist businesses in serving the businesses of Haiti. It also aims to enable schools to serve the schools of Haiti, NGOs to serve the NGOs of Haiti, and governments to serve the government of Haiti, all of which ultimately serve the Haitians. The ambitious initiative ensures that all projects are developed and operated in partnership with Haitian leadership, and that they will seek to be transformational. HaitiServe supports a number of ministries, coordinating their activities and contributions. These include ProVision Foundation (www.provisionfoundation.org); Equitas Group (www.equitasgroup.org); Harvest Field (www.harvestfieldhaiti.org); Chadasha Foundation and the Jimani Project (www. chadasha.org); Ubuntu, Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church (www.cspc.net); and The University of Tennessee Medical Center at Knoxville. Mobilizing Human Resources I spoke to Terry Douglass two months after the earthquake and he said, “We continue to send teams of eight volunteers to Haiti each week to our fixed site and field clinics there. We have added staff to serve in volunteer recruitment and coordi- 24
S p r e a d i n g t h e M e s s a g e nation, orphanages and adoptions, construction, healthcare, and major projects.” The organization also had two families serving in Haiti full-time and two houses for volunteers in Port-au-Prince. As you can imagine, there are many great stories that have come from the HaitiServe initiative. Here is just one: “We were able to get a trailer load of food that was donated from the MiddleEast, supposedly by a Saudi prince, to be distributed to over 2,000 families through a Baptist Church we serve in Haiti,” says Douglass. He is hopeful that other types of resource mobilization programs will be generated through the work of HaitiServe, including business and microfinancing initiatives. “We are hiring Haitians as much as possible. We have discussed the possibility of setting up businesses to produce rehab appliances and to do construction.” The work of HaitiServe is ongoing, but Terry summed it up by saying, “Our general objective is to mobilize resources – time, talent, and treasure; people, churches, healthcare providers, businesses, schools, NGOs, and government – to serve the leadership of Haiti who are serving the people of Haiti with a common goal of spiritual and physical transformation.” 25
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