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 […]

Five intrepid individuals from McGregor Baptist Church visited their Sister Church in Cote de Fer, Haiti, in October.  Getting to Southern Haiti is a challenge these days, but they persevered and made it.  They re-established their relationship with the Cote de Fer church as they spent time with the pastor, visited a satellite church, met […]

As we consider that the Gospel transforms lives… through the Church, which is God’s instrument of life change, we arrive at RMI’s third motivation: “Partnerships that are engaged”. It is most often through partnerships of some type that the church can effectively minister to one another as part of Christ’s body and others around us.  […]

In October, we were excited to turn over the keys to the new second story of Tet Source School. This area has been blessed so much by its Sister Church partners. Before, this area had no MEBSH school; now it has a 2-story building. The lean-to that you see in the before picture was placed […]

Travel is a vital part of our lives.  We walk, we run, we drive our cars.  If the destination is far away, we take a plane or train.  Our Hope for Kidz team travels all over southern Haiti to every single school several times a year to keep our program running and growing.  But what […]