BGEA chaplains continue to serve in Haiti even now.
The Billy Graham Rapid Response Team (RRT) will equip Haitian pastors and church leadership to reach their nation for Christ.
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As a result of the RRT chaplain deployment to Haiti in January of this year, opportunities to continue ministry in Haiti are abounding. At the prompting of the Baptist Haiti Mission (BHM), a ministry partner in Haiti, RRT developed and delivered grief ministry training for 80 local churches in May of this year. The training was so successful that members of the Christian Evangelical Association of Haiti invited them back to train Christian leadership.
On August 5 and 6, RRT trainers will deliver more training for 45 pastors and church leaders. Those leaders will train others to minister to those in crisis. The planned result is the eventual training of 2,000 Haitian churches.
The goals of the training are to:
- Provide biblical teaching on grief and suffering
- Present a message of God's hope
- Prepare church leaders to share the Gospel with others in their time of crisis
- Help prevent long-term effects of trauma and loss
Jack Munday, RRT Director, sees the urgency to equip Christian leaders in Haiti. "If they don't get this kind of training, their personal grief could negatively impact their ministries. We saw examples of this happen in the Gulf after Hurricane Katrina. In the wake of that storm, many of the pastors were no longer with their churches."
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SOURCE: BGEA News
Joy Allmond
