Posts Tagged ‘Haiti’
49 Years in Haiti
Forty-nine years ago, at age 20, I arrived in Haiti for the first time. Sent to fix a mission motorcycle and suffering Haitian Happiness, I couldn’t wait to get back to America. Then one night while giving my testimony through an interpreter, God spoke to me that the same way He changed my life He…
Read MoreKenyan Police Arrive in Port au Prince
June 25, 2024 Main Gate airport Kenyan Airways touched down and 400 Kenyan police entered Haiti to help Haitian National Police disband and disarm 200 gangs. 2100 additional police will follow from Caribbean and African countries; the exact dates of their arrival has not been disclosed.
Read MoreKenyan police to arrive in Haiti amid ‘logistical nightmare’
As Kenya’s President Ruto visits Washington today, concerns mount over U.S.-backed plan to quell violence in the gang-embattled nation Washington pledged its financial and logistical support for the mission in a defense agreement with Kenya signed in September 2023. It was then that Kenya committed to deploying 1,000 troops to Port-au-Prince. The mission is also expected to…
Read MoreGod’s Direction
With six-year-old Sarah and nine-month old Little Joel, we returned to Haiti. Jeff promised to give back the Fontamara home, as soon as he found one in Petionville. While Jeff searched for a house, we stayed at Andy’s, his parents were out of the country. There we met Open Bible Standard, Mission Director, Paul Canfield.…
Read MoreThe Iron Market
Port au Prince’s main street, Gran Rue, though marked Boulevard JJ Dessalines, for Haiti’s first governor general, leads to the Iron Market. Fabricated in Paris for an Egyptian train station, the flat packed structure ended up in Port au Prince in 1891, no one knows why. Two massive ironwork buildings with cavernous thirty-foot doomed ceilings…
Read MoreNovember Prayer Letter
November 2023 prayer letter update from missionaries Joel and Yvonne Trimble; they share their praise and prayer report from Haiti.
Read More48 Years of Service to Christ
Abandoned at birth, Joel was adopted and grew up fishing, hunting, and enjoying beautiful Canandaigua Lake. At age thirteen, his parents accepted a job managing a hotel away from the Lake, Joel loved. They left the boy in an empty house, next door to his grandmother to finish eighth grade. By the time he was…
Read MoreMichou’s Healing
This is an excerpt from my unpublished memoir of our first ten years in Haiti. This is a true story of a true healing that brought an entire family to Christ. Just yesterday while Joel was in the Cap Haitian Marche, Michou the girl, now 51 greeted Joel with hugs and kisses and told others,…
Read MoreVoodoo Ceremony
An excerpt from my unpublished memoir Walking with the God of Miracles Now the week before Easter, when raucous voodooists celebrate Christ’s death and deny His resurrection by worshiping Satan with frenzy and frequency we came upon a voodoo ceremony. Fresh darkness fell as we found a a foot path shortcut through the ravine. Illuminated…
Read MoreEvangelists and Treasure Hunters
The weeklong ministry adventures into the province began with loading the truck, including dirt bikes and covering everything with a tarp. The men then drove hours over unpaved, rocky roads to remote villages. When Joel invited me, I interrogated him, “Have you seen the house? Is there a bed? Is it clean? Is there a…
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