New Life Mission – Haiti, Inc.

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A special Thank you to St. Paul Lutheran’s Church in Millersville, PA for putting on another plant sale to benefit New Life Children’s Home. See the flyer for all the info & reach out to Karen with any questions!

There are so many worthy causes to give toward this Giving Tuesday. It is undeniable that the needs that surround us, whether it’s in the US or another country, are endless.

Haiti continues to remain in a state of chaos. There continues to be no sign of an election for a new president, and several countries have considered entering in to bring aid but we have yet to see that come to fruition.

So where does that leave the people of Haiti? I don’t feel that I can describe how they are feeling as I sit here in the US, but I don’t think it is hard for one to imagine. We can say that the need is great, and here are a couple ways that you can help…

1. The Loaves & Fishes Program – This time of year we would normally be having our Christmas feeding program, but due to conditions in Haiti and the level of starvation happening we instead are continuing to promote the Loaves & Fishes feeding program we began over the summer. We were able to feed over 500 people a week (sometimes over 800!!) for 4 months this summer to fall and would love to keep this going! This program has been on hold for the last couple of weeks due to lack of funds, but we will continue as donations come in!

2. The School Sponsorship Program – There are very few free education programs in Haiti and there are many children who cannot afford to attend school. Our program is currently helping to send 73 children to school. We have 5 children in our sponsorship program who do not have sponsors. Would you consider being a school sponsor? For $380 a year you can pay a student’s tuition and help to pay for their uniform costs. Each year you will receive a letter & picture from your student.

3.The Children’s Home– We were so blessed by our generous supporters who participated in the Hoedown this year! Any amount raised is an incredible blessing, however we did not meet our fundraising goal for this year. If you feel led we would greatly appreciate donations for the Children’s Home that would go towards the needs of our 4 kiddos and full time staff living in the home.

All donations can be made here: DONATE ONLINE HERE

Or through the mail: “New Life Mission – Haiti, Inc.” 420 E. Fulton St., Ephrata, PA 17522 (Please attach a note stating where you’d like the funds to go towards.)

Thank you for considering New Life Mission – Haiti, Inc. this Giving Tuesday. We wish you all a wonderful holiday season! As always, we covet your prayers over our ministries and the country of Haiti!

Bidding is now open for our 2023 Virtual Silent Auction to Benefit New Life Children’s Home !!

Click here to bid!

So many awesome prizes to choose from!

Bidding is open until Thursday, October 19 at 8pm!

Thank you for your support!!

Happy Bidding!!

Hello Everyone!

We cannot believe that August is already here! We all know what that means… School will be here before we know it! In Haiti we are beginning to look toward the 23/24 school year!

 That being said, we are in need of new sponsors for 5 of the children in our program. It is $380 per year to sponsor a student. That will cover their tuition and help to pay for their uniforms. 

Absalom & Christelle, two of the children who are in need of a sponsor.

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If you would like to sponsor one of these children or have more questions. Please reach out to us!

We are also collecting bookbags for the students in our program.

link to purchase backpacks online: NLM Haiti School Sponsorship Amazon Wish List

**We want to give a shoutout to Ephrata Community Church’s 5th & 6th graders who collected school supplies and wrote letters to all the children in the program. These items will be put into each of the backpacks collected and handed out to the children in the program.** 

Thank you all for your love and support!

New Life Mission – Haiti, Inc.

(717) 847-5164

420 E. Fulton St., Ephrata, PA 17522

www.newlifemissionhaiti.com​

Thank you for your support! We hope to see you there!

New Life Mission – Haiti, Inc.

We want to start by saying a BIG thank you to all who responded to our need of donations to help a former sponsor child, Ismerique, attend secondary school. Several people reached out and donated! We were even able to use extra funds to help another young woman who graduated from our program that is in nursing school. If you would be interested in helping others in their post high school education you can give online or through the mail and state that the funds are to go towards “continuing education.”

School Sponsorship Program

We want to thank our sponsors for their dedication to our school sponsorship program. We believe that education can be very valuable in rising up the next generation of leaders in Haiti, which can be so valuable to their country during such a time as this! Glory to God, most of the children have been able to go to school regularly since the beginning of this year. We are so thankful! If you have not yet received a letter and photo from your child, you should be soon! We thank you for your patience these last couple years as we do our best to connect with each child and get your letters to you!

Loaves & Fishes Food Program – We recently sent out an email that explains our current fundraiser to feed our local community once a week for the next three months. With the ongoing struggles in Haiti, this is a tangible way that we can be there to support Charrier. It is with hearts FULL of gratitude we share that we met our initial goal to run the program for 3 months!! We hope to continue this program for as long as possible, so if you feel led to give you can do so online or through the mail with a note stating it is for the “loaves and fishes feeding program”

Plant sale – Our annual plant sale fundraiser to benefit New Life Children’s Home is HERE!  We will be sending out order forms along with this newsletter. There is a wide variety of flowers, vegetable plants and herbs that are supplied by Stauffer’s.  Orders are due by April 25^th and pickup will be in Ephrata the morning of May 6^th. We want to thank St. Paul Lutheran Church for putting on this fundraiser every year!

Children’s Home – Glory to God, our kids are doing well! We all miss each other dearly but we have been able to talk to them on the phone weekly. We thank each of you for the ways you support our kids in Haiti – either through prayer, financial support, or just asking how they are doing. It means so much to us and them! We have missed lots of birthdays and other holidays since we have been stateside and I recently had the kids create a wish list of items that they would like. If you are interested you can click this link New Life Children’s Home Wish List.

Agricultural projects – New Life Mission owns several acres of land that we farm for fresh produce for the children’s home as well as a source of income for the home when there is a surplus. We are blessed to own a water pump to be able to continue to water our grounds during the dry season. So many people in our community depend on their gardens for not only food for their families but for income as well. We would love to purchase 1 or 2 water pumps and hosing so that we can help our local farmers. We would charge a small rental fee just to cover maintenance and operation costs. If you may be interested in giving toward this project feel free to reach out with questions or donate online or through the mail with a note stating it is for the “water pump project.”

Microfinancing – This has been a difficult season for many of the folks in our microfinancing program. Many of their businesses have suffered because of the ongoing unrest throughout the country and have been unable to make their payments. We continue to walk alongside of them to figure out how to move forward.  We ask for your prayers as we try to encourage these individuals during such a difficult time. That being said, some of our participants have been able to continue their payments and their businesses continue to grow. We love the way this program has been able to bless so many people and we’re excited to see where God leads the program as Haiti’s conditions improve.

Estime Family – With a heavy heart we share that we are still stateside. Zacharie has taken several trips back to Haiti, but unfortunately the ongoing turmoil in the country places too much of a risk on our family for us all to travel back. We continue to serve as directors here in the states and run all of our programs alongside our staff in Haiti. We will continue to await a safe time that we can return to Haiti, but we do not anticipate that to be this year.

We like to be transparent in our struggles as a mission so that you all can know how to best pray for us. We thank you for standing alongside us and continuing to support Haiti! Contrary to popular belief, Haiti is NOT hopeless and they need our help now more than ever! .It’s difficult to summarize all that Haiti is going through l and I would encourage you to reach out with questions.

Here is a prayer list that we have right now:

1. For safety for our kids, staff, family and friends in Haiti. As well as for Zacharie when he makes trips back and forth.
2. For the prime minister to make plans for an election so that a (worthy) president can be put in power.
3. For God’s love and mercy to be felt and seen by the Haitians throughout the country.
4. For our mission to continue to be able to function and that all that we do will honor and glorify God!

Thank you all for your love, prayers and support!

Thanks for your support of New Life Mission – Haiti, Inc!

Hello Dear Friends, 

It has been too long since we have posted an update and we appreciate the folks who have reached out to us to ask how things are going or how you can help Haiti right now.

For many years our mission would bring teams down to Haiti and take a day while they were there to feed the community. It was always a fun time to connect with our neighbors as well as an opportunity to bless their families with a hot meal. Since teams have been unable to go down to Haiti for quite some time, this has not happened very often over the last 5 years.

Last week we were so happy to have Zacharie’s mom (known as Mama or Madam Vide to many of you) join us here in the states for a visit. We were sitting down talking with her and she expressed her sadness to see the level of suffering that is going on in our community. With the continued gang violence and lack of government intervention affecting every aspect of life in Haiti, many are struggling to find at least one meal on a daily basis. Yes, this has always been a problem in Haiti, but we feel that Haiti has reached an all new level of suffering. 

**Here is a YouTube video that gives a fairly good job of giving an update on the current situation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7imyUw1z6s. Please note that it is difficult to pick a perfect video that encompasses all the issues**

So how can we best help our community right now?

 We believe that providing meals to our community would be the greatest way to provide aid and hope during this current crisis. 

We are calling it the “Loaves & Fishes Feeding Program.” 

Our current fundraising goal is to raise $8,100 to be able to feed about 300 people a week for 3 months. Would you consider giving toward this program? 

You can give online here:  

https://engage.suran.com/newlifemissionhaiti/s/give/new-gift    
*Click the bottom green button New Life Mission – Haiti to see the Loaves and Fishes Feeding Program option.

Or through the mail: New Life Mission – Haiti, Inc. , 420 E. Fulton Street, Ephrata, PA 17522 (please attach a note stating it is for the “Loaves & Fishes Feeding Program.”)

All funds raised will go toward this program. We plan to purchase as much food and supplies from local vendors as we can to support our community through the program. We also want to state that because of insecurity and issues with supplies there may be weeks that we are unable to have the meal and we will continue as the Lord allows. 

Thankfully we serve a God who still performs miracles. Would you join us in praying for this program that it would inspire hope and the food would be miraculously multiplied each week.

Thank you all for your continued support,

Zacharie & Stevana Estime

New Life Mission – Haiti, Inc. Directors