“Can I pray directly to God? I feel so unworthy,” said the young Haitian woman sitting across from me in the World Wide Village medical center in Haiti. Hearing her question, I remembered the words from Matthew 27. I had just read those words in my quiet time at the...

SOLAR POWER!   We have water!  We are so thankful for how quickly you acted to provide solar power for the City on a Hill well.  It was less than two weeks between the time we asked for your help and the time the solar power system was installed. That's AMAZING! ...

Degaje is a word in Creole that means "make it work" and it applies to so many areas of life. So when a team from Iowa focused on business in Haiti had their mission trips canceled due to political protesting and then COVID-19, they did just that... degaje. They...

SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS   Over the last several years the World Wide Village supported schools in Haiti have been growing and thriving. Thanks to our amazing student sponsors, more and more children in rural Haiti are able to attend school without the burden of...

The Healthy Mothers + Healthy Babies program continues to take shape as our new midwife, Magdala, lays the foundation for a strong and successful maternal health program. Training the local matrons (traditional birth attendants) has become a top priority for the...

World Wide Village is excited to welcome our newest staff member - Magdala Joseph - as our Healthy Mothers + Healthy Babies program director.   Magdala is a vivacious 26-year-old woman who grew up in Port-au-Prince.  She is newlywed of six months and has no...

HEALTHY MOTHERS + HEALTHY BABIES   We have hit the ground running in 2021!  Our new midwife, Magdala, and her assistant have been doing an excellent job laying the groundwork for the new maternal health program over the last two weeks:    Meeting with MSPP...

In this world you will have trouble...   Jesus was right when He said we would have trouble in this world!  2019-2020 in Haiti has brought no shortage of troubles.  These challenges have affected many areas of our ministry, one of which was delaying the start of the...

There is an old Haitian proverb that says, “deye mon gen mon,” which means "beyond mountains, more mountains."  While this is a beautiful way to describe the amazing mountain views in Haiti, this proverb has a much deeper meaning. It is a reminder of the reality of...