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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI (December 12, 2003)\u00a0 – A mission team of five people\u00a0 traveled to Haiti from December 2-8 primarily to assess ministries being\u00a0 conducted by Haitian pastor Martinez Jovin, who has helped develop\u00a0 Haitian ministries in Florida for the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC)\u00a0 through the Southeast Conference.<\/p>\n

The group, led by Covenant World Mission’s Rose Cornelious, visited\u00a0 churches, schools and clinics in places like Port-Au-Prince, Jacmel,\u00a0 Fon-de-Blanc and Marbial, among others. They also consulted extensively\u00a0 with Jovin, who is president of an evangelical association of pastors in\u00a0 Haiti (serving an estimated 80 congregations) and has helped the under-served receive additional medical and educational assistance.<\/p>\n
\"HaitiThree U.S. Covenant pastors – Dave Shaw of Covenant Community Church in\u00a0 Deland, Florida; Tim Olsen The Covenant Church of Thomaston,\u00a0 Connecticut, and Tom Anderson of Haddam Neck Covenant Church, Haddam\u00a0 Neck, Connecticut – also participated, as did Cornelious’ 15-year-old\u00a0 daughter, Courtney.<\/p>\n
“They had all expressed an interest in the Caribbean and two had\u00a0 expressed interest in Haiti,” said Cornelious. “It was very successful\u00a0 and all have said they would be going back. They saw the vibrancy of the\u00a0 churches and the desperate needs of the people and they responded to\u00a0 that It’s just another example of God moving upon the hearts of people, knitting hearts together even across the shores, to help his church\u00a0 globally.”<\/p>\n
“It was also good for me to see the trip through my daughter’s eyes,”\u00a0 Cornelious continued. “I think she has a better appreciation for school\u00a0 and for being able to ride on a bus. The children really ministered to\u00a0 Courtney and she ministered to them. She’s giving a report in each of\u00a0 her school classes as a result of this.”<\/p>\n
Along with visiting churches, health clinics and schools in various\u00a0 towns, the mission team met teaching staff and children and talked with\u00a0 numerous Haitian pastors. Cornelious said that 80 percent of the\u00a0 children attending school in Haiti go to private schools, so few of the\u00a0 poorer children in Haiti receive any formal education. Jovin has\u00a0 improved educational opportunities by starting a more affordable school\u00a0 that now has 350 students. The school offers one meal a day for the\u00a0 children. Students walk as many as three hours each way and for some,\u00a0 the school food is the only substantial meal they will have during the day.<\/p>\n
Anderson says the work of Jovin and others has inspired him. Christian\u00a0 groups meet regularly at 8 p.m. to hold Bible studies and Jovin and his\u00a0 wife, Emma, lead discussions with university students and other young\u00a0 people in what Anderson says has a very real “Where is it Written?” Covenant conventicle format. Given massive\u00a0 poverty and major political unrest in Haiti during recent days, the\u00a0 positive environment at the Jovins was a welcome respite to the young\u00a0 people.<\/p>\n
“It was a very fine experience – you wish you had a million dollars to\u00a0 help,” Anderson said. “Fundamentally, just to see that people can\u00a0 overcome what might crush many spirits was a testament to hope. And\u00a0 within this desperate country is this church that is praising and\u00a0 preaching and practicing abstinence and singing hymns that I sang during\u00a0 my youth.<\/p>\n
“The Jovins are absolutely remarkable people,” Anderson continued. “And\u00a0 Martinez finds a way to get things done. He has all of these irons in\u00a0 the fire all over the country and he still manages to run his own\u00a0 church. His office is his briefcase.”<\/p>\n
A tropical storm nearly curtailed the visit last week, but the storm\u00a0 eventually moved towards the Dominican Republic. Haiti wasn’t so\u00a0 fortunate earlier in the fall as large floods devastated parts of the\u00a0 country. News reports estimated that 25 people died and another 100\u00a0 remain unaccounted for, said Jovin in an email update. Jovin’s family\u00a0 sent a truckload of food, soap and other emergency supplies to pastors\u00a0 and leaders of a village with more than 200 families. But there never\u00a0 seems to be enough supplies to make a dent in the impoverished country,\u00a0 which makes mission trips like last week’s critical.<\/p>\n
“There are things that we don’t think about – like elderly care – but if\u00a0 you’re old in Haiti you have no health care available,” said Cornelious.\u00a0 “Medical clinics aren’t available in Haiti and nothing’s handicapped\u00a0 accessible, so they stay inside all of the time. Martinez would like to\u00a0 provide a place for the elderly in the future and he’d like to have a\u00a0 Bible school there, too.”<\/p>\n
Shaw said that an August 2004 trip in Haiti is being planned, including\u00a0 construction work and the coordination of a church Bible camp. “It was\u00a0 an excellent trip from a mission experience,” Shaw added. “I’m excited\u00a0 about future relationships our church will have based on the connections\u00a0 we made. The (Haitian) church really seems to thrive in that environment. They are glorious in an ‘inglorious’ situation. And we\u00a0 (North American churches) can help the church do some things there.\u00a0 That’s a mission vision we saw very clearly.”<\/p>\n
To learn more about Haiti’s ministry needs, contact Jovin by email at\u00a0 Mjovin77@hainet.net. To read a 2001 article about Jovin’s ministry,\u00a0 visit Jovin.<\/a><\/div>\n
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