After hearing of their children’s experiences on the World Race, Sue and Don Brensinger and Donna Morgan felt the call to come to Haiti on an AIM short term trip.  The hope and passion of the Haitian people impacted these three, encouraging them to impact their communities back home in America.

When you ask a Haitian, “What do you need?” more often than not they don’t say food, or a house, or a job, they ask for prayer. After picking up on this a youth group team decided to take their ministry to the streets in Port-Au-Prince and ask anyone and everyone, ‘How can we pray for you?”        How can we pray for you?                     Some Haitians joining in on some worship as the team walked the streets asking what people needed prayer for.     Many simply asked that...

Lesa Close came to Haiti on a short term team a couple of weeks ago. Below is a glimpse of her experience in her own words.   “Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you.” -James 1:27 A man came to know the Lord this week, and needed an English Bible rather than Creole, because he spent many years in the U.S. and speaks English better than Creole. So I gave him mine. No hesitation. This week I realized that I am rich…I may not have a job, I may feel poor, but...

It was a normal Haitian afternoon with the air boiling and people seeking refuge in the shade. Part of the team was inside a white tent, designated for our purposes as a medical tent. Wounds were being cleansed and redressed. Stomach aches were being soothed with medicine. The touch and care deprived were given full attention, even if for only a few short minutes. Gathered outside the tent were many, many more. Some were simply waiting in line, anxiously awaiting in hopes we could help. Others were gathered around those praying for healing for the many cases we were untrained to handle. It was...

AIM short-term teams in Haiti have many opportunities to serve the people in a variety of ways. One team met a woman, Nadi, who had a severe infection on her chest. Out of concern for the woman and her nursing baby, Ishnadi, the team and AIM staff took them to the hospital for diagnosis. Here’s the story:

I don’t know exactly what we expected walking into his home, but I know that it wasn’t what we found. The tent seemed to exhale as we opened its door, and it expelled a torrent of heat. I could not begin to imagine staying inside these tarpaulin walls all day as sweat instantly formed against my skin; yet, this is Evansbord’s life everyday. Evansbord was taken to a witch doctor at two months old. Before me was the result of this choice by his parents. He was lying on the tent floor, knees to his chest, feet crossed flat against himself; he has spent 15 years in this same...