Help 4 Haiti
Few countries have suffered like Haiti.
Haiti's children face a lot of uncertainty.
Over the past decade, the Caribbean island nation of Haiti has suffered four hurricanes, two major earthquakes and two destructive floods.
But natural disasters aren’t the only issues affecting Haiti’s children. 58% of Haitians live in poverty, earning $3.65 per day or less. The accumulated burdens of family economic hardship are many, including limited access to necessities like good food and water, adequate housing and medical care. Many Haitian parents struggle to provide for their families, and because of this, about 25% of Haitian children do not live with their birth parents (often living instead on the streets or in orphanages).
Adding to Haiti’s problems, violent gangs have arisen across the country, making it dangerous for children to attend school and for people to attend church. Sometimes families have had to flee the violence in the middle of the night, with only the belongings they can carry in their hands.
How can we share the hope of Christ with them?
In the midst of so much uncertainty, Haiti’s children need to hear about Jesus, the Savior who loves them and will never leave them ― and who gives them the hope of a better life, now and eternally.
Your students can introduce other children to Jesus - for only $5!
LHF is an LCMS mission dedicated to translating and publishing the good books of our Lutheran faith into the languages of the world. With your students’ mission offerings, LHF is at work providing books like A Child’s Garden of Bible Stories, Luther’s Small Catechism and devotions in the Haitian Creole and French languages (spoken throughout Haiti).
Best of all, it costs only $5 to provide a beautiful, hardcover Bible storybook or catechism for a family in Haiti. So if your Sunday school raises $100 for “Help 4 Haiti,” they are providing another Sunday school class of 20 students in Haiti with their own Bible books to keep. Your Lutheran day school’s offerings of $500 share God’s Word with 100 families!
Books share God’s love in a lasting way.
When you give a Haitian child a book about Jesus, written in a language they can read and understand, you’re sharing the Good News even when kids can’t go to school or Sunday school. These books will also be an important resource for American short-term mission teams traveling to Haiti, to share the gift of Jesus Christ as they provide medical care, build homes and minister to the hurting Haitian people. These books are shared and teach for generations!