Arkansas Baptist in Haiti

On Sunday, I gave you some information during the sermon regarding the efforts of Arkansas Baptists in Haiti. Here are some more detailed facts regarding exactly what has been done by Arkansas Baptist churches and organizations in Haitit. This information comes from Bob Fielding who works on the missions team for our state Convention staff.

Greg!

Great talking to you last night.  Here are the most up to date figures, not including a team that is there this week.

1) 792 AR Baptists serving on 127 teams have gone to Haiti with the ABSC

2) Those folks have reported to us 5,974 professions of faith.  We don’t count baptisms because of the situation we face with the local organized church.

3) We have about 15 house churches that we know have been established, with about four of those 2^nd generation, using T4T materials from the IMB.

4) Dr Melissa Hobbs from WBC and another fish expert will travel to Haiti in March to install our first aquaponics system (fish/veggies) at the Christian University of Northern Haiti, working with their agronomy department.  We believe there will be several spinoffs from this, providing food, economic boost, and a way to spread the gospel. 

5) 10,440 medical, eye and dental patients have been seen by ABSC medical teams.

6) A prison ministry was started in May of 2012.  To date, AR SBC prison chaplains have trained bout 40 Haitians to do prison ministry in three prisons. 

7) We were able to send a young man to Honduras to the Chorti Baptist Development Center to learn SALT (Sloping Agricultural Land Technology) and other skills which will result in life change in the mountains. He is also a church planter.

 

Here is a BRAND NEW video (too long for your service) that you can look at. Just went up yesterday.  https://vimeo.com/79216498

 

Blessings and great talking to you yesterday!

Bob