Ministry History
Mission of Grace was established in 2009 with the intention of bringing light and hope to a dark and hopeless society. Following the devastating earthquake on January 12, 2010 there was an overwhelming need to provide shelter to homeless orphans, medical care to the sick and support for the elderly.
Over the past several years the mission has grown to include several different ministries, each one focused on equipping and, teaching, and training to empower our people for the future.
Children of Grace Orphanage
Children of Grace is our orphanage which operates in two locations: one in Carries, which opened in 2011, and one in Plaisance which opened in the spring of 2014. We provide housing, food, clothing, medical care, and schooling for more than 70 children. Some of our children have lost their parents, while others have been abandoned by families unable to care for them. While their situations may seem hopeless, we desire to be part of writing a new future for them; a future in which they know they are accepted by a God who loves them and has a great plan for their lives.
Grace Community School
At Mission of Grace, we believe in creating and empowering leaders for Haiti’s future; this starts with education. Grace Community School seeks to serve the children of Carries and the surrounding mountain communities who would otherwise be unable to receive an education. Each year we see the confidence that comes on a child as they unlock the world around them through learning and discovering the possibilities that await them. We truly believe that we are educating tomorrow’s doctors, lawyers, engineers, teachers, and pastors. At Grace Community school, we are building the future leaders of this nation.
Grace Community Medical Clinic
Grace Community Medical Clinic strives to develop a healthier community through providing a clinic five days a week. In our community there are many malnourished children, high blood pressure is prevalent, along with problematic pregnancies. In 2017 we received a generous donation of a Clinic in a Can. This retrofitted shipping container has all the comforts and facilities of an American doctor's office, including air conditioning. It is currently being used as our pre-natal facility, and Wednesdays are reserved for pregnant women to come and receive excellent care. The clinic provides free services to all including a pharmacy as well as education and support to better the overall health of the community. The clinic employs one doctor, two nurses, an administrator, two security guards and has a healthy volunteer organization.
Home of Grace Elderly Home
We currently house 7 grandmas and 2 grandpas, along with four younger people with disabilities, who are lovingly looked after by five caregivers. We desire to provide a clean, comfortable and safe place for the elderly in Haiti to rest and find peace as they live out their last years of life. Our new home can house up to 10 men and 10 women and serves as a testament to our community, as well as the surrounding villages, that the old and ill are not worthless and not forgotten. On the contrary, they now occupy the nicest home in Carries.
Grace Girls Home
Our girls home opened in the spring of 2015 with the goal of providing housing, education and an environment of family, love, and support for at-risk teen girls. Our home can house up to 16 girls at a time and gives these girls the necessary stability and guidance to secure a brighter future for themselves and their families. We provide more than just education and a bed; we offer hope to escape the cycles of young pregnancy, poverty and broken families.
Men of Grace
Our young mens ministry was started in April of 2016 and focuses on discipleship and job training for these young men. Their weekly routine includes attending church and bible study, school, discipleship class, english class, helping with construction projects, and working in various jobs and roles around the mission.
Grace Community Church
Grace Community Church reaches the community of Carries through bible studies, community feedings, and being a place of refuge and peace, where people can come as they are and be met with love, respect, and support. Our team of pastors and leaders provide great spiritual leadership and Biblical instruction, with an emphasis on raising and training our young people to be the next generation of church leaders. We recently renovated and moved in to a new building that has been a huge upgrade and blessing. The original church building could hold around 150 people in relative comfort, but on average we would fit up to 200 people on any given Sunday. The new building can hold around 250 comfortably, and is much cooler inside as it is built out of cinder block instead of wood.
Grace Community Soup Kitchen
Carries is a poor rural community and one of the most prevalent hardships in our village is hunger. Jobs are scarce, and for many every day is a battle to find food. Hundreds of people, primarily children go for days with little to no food. This is not an easy problem to solve. For many years Mission of Grace held community feedings at the church on special occasions, or when a team came with the funds and the heart to help provide food for those in need. However, an everyday need cannot be met by occasional help. In faith we started our community soup kitchen, providing a meal for 100 people one day a week. As increased support came in we grew to 3 days a week, and then 5. By January of 2016 the soup kitchen was fully funded, and the funding increased to provide food 7 days a week for up to 250 people a day, most of them children. While hunger is still a factor, we now have a place to point people when they say they are hungry, and we know that for the most part, children are no longer going days without eating.
Through each of these ministries we realize that the hope lies with the children. Teaching them to love others, to have morals and ethics and to love and respect themselves is of utmost importance because they are the future, and one day they will be the doctors, lawyers, teachers, businessmen, and leaders of Haiti.
Mission of Grace is still very young, but God continues to move us forward in His timing. We currently have 10 full time missionaries and employ more than 60 full-time Haitian staff. We spend a lot of time training our staff to give the best service and to understand the heart of the mission. We instill in them that they are not simply receiving a paycheck, but that they are helping their country by serving the students, orphans, elderly and the sick. And, of utmost importance is that all be treated with dignity and respect, loving as Jesus loves, and representing Him well.
We are proud to serve Haiti and pray that we will do so to the best of our ability for many years to come. We desire to see lives changed and to see people filled with a hope and joy that can only come from knowing and serving Jesus.
In addition to our work in Carries, we have partnered with Foundation Guillaume to serve the community of Plasiance du sud. Miss Linotte's brother Jocelyn started Foundation Guillaume in 2001in honor of their father and the work and ministry he pioneered in Plasiance. Mission of Grace started an orphanage in Plasiance during the summer of 2014. We are continuing to further the ministry of Foundation Guillaume by bringing teams to Plasiance, and supporting the medical clinic. You can read more about Foundation Guillaume at foundationguillaume.org
Mission of Grace was established in 2009 with the intention of bringing light and hope to a dark and hopeless society. Following the devastating earthquake on January 12, 2010 there was an overwhelming need to provide shelter to homeless orphans, medical care to the sick and support for the elderly.
Over the past several years the mission has grown to include several different ministries, each one focused on equipping and, teaching, and training to empower our people for the future.
Children of Grace Orphanage
Children of Grace is our orphanage which operates in two locations: one in Carries, which opened in 2011, and one in Plaisance which opened in the spring of 2014. We provide housing, food, clothing, medical care, and schooling for more than 70 children. Some of our children have lost their parents, while others have been abandoned by families unable to care for them. While their situations may seem hopeless, we desire to be part of writing a new future for them; a future in which they know they are accepted by a God who loves them and has a great plan for their lives.
Grace Community School
At Mission of Grace, we believe in creating and empowering leaders for Haiti’s future; this starts with education. Grace Community School seeks to serve the children of Carries and the surrounding mountain communities who would otherwise be unable to receive an education. Each year we see the confidence that comes on a child as they unlock the world around them through learning and discovering the possibilities that await them. We truly believe that we are educating tomorrow’s doctors, lawyers, engineers, teachers, and pastors. At Grace Community school, we are building the future leaders of this nation.
Grace Community Medical Clinic
Grace Community Medical Clinic strives to develop a healthier community through providing a clinic five days a week. In our community there are many malnourished children, high blood pressure is prevalent, along with problematic pregnancies. In 2017 we received a generous donation of a Clinic in a Can. This retrofitted shipping container has all the comforts and facilities of an American doctor's office, including air conditioning. It is currently being used as our pre-natal facility, and Wednesdays are reserved for pregnant women to come and receive excellent care. The clinic provides free services to all including a pharmacy as well as education and support to better the overall health of the community. The clinic employs one doctor, two nurses, an administrator, two security guards and has a healthy volunteer organization.
Home of Grace Elderly Home
We currently house 7 grandmas and 2 grandpas, along with four younger people with disabilities, who are lovingly looked after by five caregivers. We desire to provide a clean, comfortable and safe place for the elderly in Haiti to rest and find peace as they live out their last years of life. Our new home can house up to 10 men and 10 women and serves as a testament to our community, as well as the surrounding villages, that the old and ill are not worthless and not forgotten. On the contrary, they now occupy the nicest home in Carries.
Grace Girls Home
Our girls home opened in the spring of 2015 with the goal of providing housing, education and an environment of family, love, and support for at-risk teen girls. Our home can house up to 16 girls at a time and gives these girls the necessary stability and guidance to secure a brighter future for themselves and their families. We provide more than just education and a bed; we offer hope to escape the cycles of young pregnancy, poverty and broken families.
Men of Grace
Our young mens ministry was started in April of 2016 and focuses on discipleship and job training for these young men. Their weekly routine includes attending church and bible study, school, discipleship class, english class, helping with construction projects, and working in various jobs and roles around the mission.
Grace Community Church
Grace Community Church reaches the community of Carries through bible studies, community feedings, and being a place of refuge and peace, where people can come as they are and be met with love, respect, and support. Our team of pastors and leaders provide great spiritual leadership and Biblical instruction, with an emphasis on raising and training our young people to be the next generation of church leaders. We recently renovated and moved in to a new building that has been a huge upgrade and blessing. The original church building could hold around 150 people in relative comfort, but on average we would fit up to 200 people on any given Sunday. The new building can hold around 250 comfortably, and is much cooler inside as it is built out of cinder block instead of wood.
Grace Community Soup Kitchen
Carries is a poor rural community and one of the most prevalent hardships in our village is hunger. Jobs are scarce, and for many every day is a battle to find food. Hundreds of people, primarily children go for days with little to no food. This is not an easy problem to solve. For many years Mission of Grace held community feedings at the church on special occasions, or when a team came with the funds and the heart to help provide food for those in need. However, an everyday need cannot be met by occasional help. In faith we started our community soup kitchen, providing a meal for 100 people one day a week. As increased support came in we grew to 3 days a week, and then 5. By January of 2016 the soup kitchen was fully funded, and the funding increased to provide food 7 days a week for up to 250 people a day, most of them children. While hunger is still a factor, we now have a place to point people when they say they are hungry, and we know that for the most part, children are no longer going days without eating.
Through each of these ministries we realize that the hope lies with the children. Teaching them to love others, to have morals and ethics and to love and respect themselves is of utmost importance because they are the future, and one day they will be the doctors, lawyers, teachers, businessmen, and leaders of Haiti.
Mission of Grace is still very young, but God continues to move us forward in His timing. We currently have 10 full time missionaries and employ more than 60 full-time Haitian staff. We spend a lot of time training our staff to give the best service and to understand the heart of the mission. We instill in them that they are not simply receiving a paycheck, but that they are helping their country by serving the students, orphans, elderly and the sick. And, of utmost importance is that all be treated with dignity and respect, loving as Jesus loves, and representing Him well.
We are proud to serve Haiti and pray that we will do so to the best of our ability for many years to come. We desire to see lives changed and to see people filled with a hope and joy that can only come from knowing and serving Jesus.
In addition to our work in Carries, we have partnered with Foundation Guillaume to serve the community of Plasiance du sud. Miss Linotte's brother Jocelyn started Foundation Guillaume in 2001in honor of their father and the work and ministry he pioneered in Plasiance. Mission of Grace started an orphanage in Plasiance during the summer of 2014. We are continuing to further the ministry of Foundation Guillaume by bringing teams to Plasiance, and supporting the medical clinic. You can read more about Foundation Guillaume at foundationguillaume.org
