Links

We hope that this site might be an entry point for deeper connection with the people of Haiti.  We invite you to continue the journey through the further opportunities of listening and learning, speaking and accompanying in the links below. 

Raising Voices for Haiti Photo Gallery

Accompany us along the journey in photos.  Click here to find photo journeys of Life in Haiti, Benjamin Splichal Larson, and the Haiti Focus Week at Holden Village.

Ben Still Sings

A website lifting up the voice of Benjamin Splichal Larson and the people of Haiti.  Click here to listen to Ben’s music, hear Ben’s story, and learn more about Haiti.

Hearts with Haiti

In 1985, Michael Geilenfeld, a former brother with Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity, started a small home for five boys to bring them off the streets and offer them a Christian family life. Twenty-four years later there are now three homes serving roughly 200 children through a variety of programs.  St. Joseph’s Home for Boys, the original home continues to serve youth in Port-au-Prince, despite being damaged beyond repair in the 2010 earthquake.  Wings of Hope, located in the mountains about Port-au-Prince, is a home for children with disabilities that is run by graduates of St. Joseph’s Home for Boys; it, too, was damaged beyond repair in the 2010 earthquake.  Trinity House, located in the coastal town of Jacmel, offers a safe home for youth, Trinity School for neighborhood children whose families cannot afford to pay for school, and has founded a bakery and coffee project.  Graduates from the original home now run one of the homes, Wings of Hope, a home for children with disabilities in the mountains above Port-au Prince.  Click here or on any of the highlighted links to learn more about Hearts with Haiti.

LWF Caribbean/Haiti

Inspired by God’s grace and rooted in Christian values of love, reconciliation and justice, the Lutheran World Fedration Caribbean/Haiti Program responds to human need throughout the Caribbean region, serving all people irrespective of ethnicity, gender, religion, race or political affiliation or conviction.  Click here to learn more about how the LWF accompanies the people of the Caribbean/Haiti in daily life.

Holden Village

The vision of Holden Village is the love of God making new the church and world through the cross of Jesus Christ.  The mission of Holden Village, a Lutheran ministry, is to welcome all people into the wilderness to be called, equipped and sent by God as we share rhythms of Word and Sacrament; work, recreation and study; intercession and healing.  Click here to learn more about Holden Village, a ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is a community of faith that shares a passion for making positive changes in the world. Its faith is built around a strong belief in God as made known in Jesus Christ. Through worship, service, and education, the ELCA practices faith, grows in relationship with God and experiences God’s grace. The ELCA also works hard to put  faith into action, striving to make a difference in practical and realistic ways in today’s complex world.  With more than 10,300 congregations across the U.S., Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, and 4.5 million members—the ELCA welcomes you to experience this church right in your community. Click here to explore the ELCA, and help celebrate the gift of faith—with action.