How is Christmas celebrated in Haiti? Christmas is more of a religious holiday in Haiti.  It is celebrated by attending a special service at church.  This service begins on Christmas Eve and goes into the early morning.  In the last 30 years, people have started decorating the outside of their homes with lights and other […]

As one year ends and another begins, it always seems to be a time of reflection for most.  As December 31st approaches, we find ourselves thinking back on all we have done this year, gathering with family and friends, and making plans for the New Year. One of the greatest gifts we share during the […]

RMI believes that Christ is honored and pleased by service that requires sacrifice on the part of the server. As we consider that the Gospel transforms lives… through the Church, which is God’s instrument of life change, and through engaged church-to-church partnerships, we arrive at RMI’s fourth motivation, “Service that is Sacrificial”. We like to […]

Teams to Haiti may now resume…  Let’s Go! The Southern Peninsula of Haiti, where RMI is headquartered, and where all of our church and school partners are, is very stable.  The authorities have been highly effective in preventing gang activity in the South.  IBC airlines is now flying directly between Miami and Cayes every Monday, […]

It’s the end of the year, and we need your help to FINISH STRONG. We know that we’ve asked a lot recently — Nevertheless, we want to share with you, our valued ministry partners, that we are significantly behind budget and need an influx of generosity to fund our current ministry needs and put us […]

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of the Chairman of the RMI Board, John Peterson, 68, on November 7 due to an aggressive liver cancer.  John was a long-time friend of RMI.  His first trip to Haiti was in 1980, and it transformed his life.  He and RMI President Dan Shoemaker […]

  It is so reassuring to know that God never fails, never changes, never leaves us.  We constantly plan for the future, schedule, and reschedule things in our daily lives.  Our Hope for Kidz team has been scheduling and rescheduling their school visits for weeks now, with one primary goal:  Checking on our students! With […]

  When Dan was a kid growing up in Haiti, he used to have fun riding his motorcycle up and down the dirt runway.  Years later, when Dan and Debbie arrived (over 40 years ago), the Cayes “airport” still consisted of a rocky and not particularly flat airstrip and a tiny, tin-roofed shack.  It was […]

THANK YOU We are grateful for all the churches and individuals who were able to participate. Although we fell short of our goals, and while donations are still potentially coming in, we remain truly appreciative of our partnerships. We can do more together than we can individually—we call this interdependence. Shared Impact One church shared: […]

Many of you have been inquiring about the impact of Hurricane Melissa on your Sister Church and community. Up through Wednesday, it has been raining so hard that the roads have been impassable. We now have several teams out assessing the damage and needs. While Hurricane Melissa passed to the south of and around the […]