Current News From Amplify Haiti
01/26/2025
Haiti Christmas Special For many
For the start of 2025 we wanted to share this story about a dear friend of ours in Haiti.
Lia and I met Jesula in March of 2010 in Petion Ville relief effort after the earthquake. Jesula Mardy is a follower of Christ in practice and in deeds. She is Haitian American who loves her people in Haiti. She lives in NJ stateside but her real home is Fonds-fed-Negres Haiti. As dangerous as it is to travel she continues to have faith in God to keep her safe traveling to and from Haiti. We always support her efforts in Haiti when she asks.
Along with running a medical clinic which she raised money to build, every year since 2015 she has a Christmas banquet for hundreds who live in Fonds-des-Negres Haiti. This year was no exception she served 192! For the New Year’s she makes soup joumou (a pumpkin, vegetable and beef combination) for the people in the neighborhood.
We just want to thank her for all she does for God’s people. Please join us each day to pray for her continued protection and peace for healing a nation this year.
With mercy, blessings and praises
Mike & Lia
Pictures below, top to bottom. Jesula praying before the meal, kids enjoying the get together, mother helping feed her child and soup joumou.
Current News From Amplify Haiti
12/23/2024
Merry Christmas & Happy New year
“And while they were there, the time came for her baby to be born. She gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him snugly in strips of cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no lodging available for them.”
Luke 2:6-7
As we celebrate the birth of our Savior and remember why He came. Please pray for peace in Haiti. As we celebrate, the suffering continues there each day. Lia and I plead for world awareness and a resolution to the persecution of the poor innocent in Haiti.
Haitians say “No one listens to the cry of the poor or the sound of a wooden bell!” Help us be the eyes and ears of Jesus this season!
Merry Christmas and have a blessed New Year!
Mike & Lia
11/22/24
The Challenge Accepted!
Many of you accepted the challenge and now we are over half way to the goal for Louis Paul’s motorbike! Let’s use Giving Tuesday (Dec 3) to push us over the goal and bless our Haitian family for Christmas!
“Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will reward them for what they have done.”
Proverbs 19:17
Have a blessed Thanksgiving,
Mike & Lia
11/15/24
Thank You!
By the grace of God we were able to raise enough to send Javony (below) to school in PAP for the year. Pierre and his wife thank you from the bottom of their hearts!
We Have A Challenge!
We are continuing to help Paul Louis get his motorcycle replaced after being destroyed by gangs. Transportation is a KEY component in fighting poverty. Lia and I would like to challenge you with a $50 donation. We need 30 donations to meet our goal. In order to help meet our goal we have a donor who will match the first 5 donors.
“And the King will say, ‘I tell you the truth, when you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were doing it to me!’”
Matthew 25:40 NLT
Blessings, Mike & Lia
Lia & I have know Pierre for over 20 years
Louis Paul’s Motorcycle destroyed by gangs
Arcahaie Attacked!
(10/30/24)
The gangs in Haiti attacked, burned and destroyed homes and businesses in addition more lives were lost just outside Arcahaie (15 minutes away from SOH).
Our principal, Louis Paul and his wife Marie evacuated their house to escape the gangs. The good news is they are safe and have returned home and we thank God for our answered prayers for their safety. While gangs were pillaging the village they destroyed Louis Paul’s motorcycle as you see below. This is the only transportation for food and water for his family.
We are so thankful and grateful for those who help our friends with prayers and donations and we regret that again the news is not good, but it is important to report to you the Truth. The good news is we were able to raise $365 for Pierre’s daughter to return to school in PAP.
THANK YOU!
We are asking again for your help so we can replace Louis Paul’s motorcycle. The cost is $1650
Blessings, Mike & Lia
Help Us Send Javony To School
(10/20/2024)
Paul Louis reached out to us today and said that Pierre Degazon (a very good friend of ours) needs tuition fees to send his daughter Javony (16 yo) to school (College Jean Baptistery Lappe) in PAP for the year.
The cost is $385 USD. Any amount will help send Javony to school.
Thank you so
much for your giving spirit.
Below: Pierre and daughter Javony
“Breadfruit Here To Save The World!”
( posted:10/04/24)
Article Sept 11,2024 from Conde Nast's WIRED magazine:
“Mary McLaughlin and her husband Mike were appalled by the waste of this nutritional powerhouse in Haiti, the poorest—and hungriest—nation in the Western hemisphere. So Mike designed a solar dehydrator to dry breadfruit, which can then be ground into flour. With help from Trees That Feed, Pierre Moïse Louis, an agronomist, set up Haiti’s first breadfruit mill near the town of Jeremie. Local farming cooperatives were formed to supply the mill with fruit.”
“The success we are seeing in Haiti is amazing,” says Mary McLaughlin. “We have women vendors taking these products and selling them. It’s creating income for people who had none.”
TTF has enabled Amplify Haiti - SOH to purchase 70 lbs of breadfruit flour from Pierre each month for the children at the SOH in Arcahaie. It is use for nutritious bread and porridge for the children.
How can you help?
We are asking for donations to help buy 3 breadfruit dehydrators which can setup
in three different areas of Haiti. We have the staff in place once the country is safe to travel and peaceful again. (Select: breadfruit dehydrator in the giving section on website)
Blessings, Mike & Lia
Pictures below top to bottom: a plant, a tree, a fruit, a meal, TTF Breadfruit dehydrator, TTF young breadfruit trees planted in Arcahaie, Lia’s breadfruit banana bread.
Our Mission and Vision
Empowerment of the people of Haiti to build community through education, training, and motivation through faith in God.
What we do
We support financially and with mission teams (when able) the communities through empowered staff in Haiti through building communities of faith. (Home construction, schools, tree plantings, food drives, local product sales)
How to get involved
Currently because of the unrest in Haiti we are unable to send teams to serve in the communities. So we always ask for your prayers ad your financial supports are always needed. Please go to the GIVE at the bottom of this page to donate.
Kids eating nurishing meal served by staff
Staff preparing kits of food for the hungry
Montas with rice, oil, mackerel and spaghetti for the hungry
Woman with food for the week
Start with a tree planted, then grow (2yrs), then harvest fruit, then dehydrate to flour & food!
Breadfruit Dehydrator
EL Schilo’s Orphanage
breadfruit rolls
breadfruit tree planted at SOH Arcahaie
08/12/24
Trusting In God’s Slow Response To Prayer!
We wish our greeting to you was one which we have been praying for, but it is not. The agonizing pain our neighbors are suffering continues. As a second wave of 200 Kenyan-led forces arrived in Haiti (400 total now) last week there has been little effect on the Haitian plight at this time. Reports from our friends detail more of the same suffering.
A very good friend and pastor Roger Ross sends blogs out monthly. Recently he sent a blog entitled “Trusting in the slow work of God”. Wow did it ever hit home with us concerning our prayers for Haiti! He explains how patience is lost in our Western culture and how we live in a on-demand way of life.
In his blog Roger quotes a letter sent in the middle of last century by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to his niece:
“Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay. We should like to skip the intermediate stages. We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new. And yet it is the law of all progress that it is made by passing through some stages of instability – and that it may take a very long time. And so, I think it is with you; your ideas mature gradually – let them grow, let them shape themselves, without undue haste. Don’t try to force them on, as though you could be today what time (that is to say, grace and circumstances acting on your own good will) will make of you tomorrow.
Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give Our Lord the benefit of believing that his hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete.”
With prayers for mercy, protection, blessings and patience we wait on the hand of God to save our Christian brothers and sisters in Haiti!
Mike & Lia
