My wife currently serves on the board of Ebenezer Discipleship Training Center, an organization committed to raising up solid Christian leadership in Haiti. Their objective is simple; provide Haitian pastors with the literacy, discipleship, and mission training necessary to plant indigenous churches that communicate the gospel to the Haitian culture.

The organization is still within it’s infancy stage, but has an incredible vision for pastoral training and church planting in Haiti. Recently, Rachel forwarded a newsletter she had receded from another board member, Nate Yonker. The newsletter contained testimonies from the time Nate spent in Haiti over the summer. I decided to share a couple of those stories here to help promote the mission and efforts of Ebenezer. If you would like to find out more about Ebenezer DTC you can visit their website as well as find them on Facebook.

This from their recent newsletter:

The goal of Ebenezer is to help Haitians that they are the missionaries in Haiti, and that they are much more effective at witnessing than those of us who don’t exactly fit in with the culture. We were able to see this in action from our first day in Haiti. In our first week we saw almost twenty people accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior, all of them witnessed to by Haitians that were working with us. By the end of the summer the number was in the hundreds, to the point that we lost count. The great thing is that they were not forgotten. Every new convert was followed up on, discipled, and integrated into a local congregation. We were able to witness much of the follow up, and it was refreshing to see. There was often a steady stream of people coming into the Ebenezer grounds to meet with pastors there.

One of my favorite people of the summer, and stories, was John Rene. When I was in Haiti in January I met John as he showed me the damage of the little village behind Ebenezer. He walked me through, showed me the damage, and introduced me to many of the people there. When we returned in June one of the first things I did was go back there again to see how the people were doing. Right away I met John again and he showed me how things had, or had not progressed. After we toured the village we went back to his house where he proceeded to ask a question about God, and why all of the destruction was allowed. The two Haitian men I was with, Boss and Jacob, answered his question and proceeded to share the gospel with him. Within 10 minutes he fell to his knees and accepted Christ as his savior. In following visits with him he shared with me how Pastor Marc had continued to check on, and take care of the people around Ebenezer, and how that impacted him, and how our love shared the truth about Jesus. When I asked him if he needed anything, he answered, ” I needed two things. One was to get right with God. Now I am, and the other does not matter.”