Presbyterian Mission Agency fabienne jean Archives

‘My faith grows when I am with the people of Haiti’

Posted October 18th, 2021

Even as she’s been working stateside during the pandemic, mission co-corker Cindy Corell continues to walk alongside her Haitian partners. As Monday’s Between Two Pulpits broadcast made clear, Corell’s heart is very much in Haiti, especially following Saturday’s kidnapping of 12 adults and five children connected with a U.S. missionary organization.

International Peacemakers visits go virtual as pandemic surges

Posted August 25th, 2021

While the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program had hopes to return to an in-person International Peacemakers program this fall, the pandemic had different plans.

‘Every day they have to fight’

Posted August 19th, 2021

David Guervil, who’s been consulting for Presbyterian Disaster Assistance in Haiti throughout political unrest, Hurricane Matthew in 2016, Saturday’s 7.2-magnitude earthquake and the tropical storm that followed, told an online gathering Thursday that most Haitians survive “on a daily basis. Every day they have to fight. Every day they struggle for the next day.”

After a massive earthquake and a tropical storm, Haiti continues to face serious challenges

Posted August 18th, 2021

Since the 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti Saturday, people have been sleeping outside waiting for possible aftershocks. When tropical storm Grace hit Monday, they had yet another horrible choice to make.

PDA official offers a briefing on the circumstances in earthquake-stricken Haiti

Posted August 16th, 2021

The Rev. Edwin González-Castillo said Monday he knows the Haitian people will overcome the most recent calamity to befall them, Saturday’s 7.2-magnitude earthquake that has killed at least 1,300 people to date, injured thousands and left many tens of thousands without adequate shelter, food, water and access to health care.

Everyday God-talk reimagined

Posted July 23rd, 2021

Everyday God-talk returns for its first official season using the lens of Reformed theology to focus on environmental justice and climate crisis.

To help Haiti, we must understand Haiti

Posted July 13th, 2021

In 2010, Cindy Corell was a journalist working in the Washington, D.C. area when she attended a lecture by Haitian-born author Edwidge Danticat.

Day-by-day impact of climate change explored at Ecumenical Advocacy Days workshop

Posted April 22nd, 2021

Fabienne Jean of Haiti doesn’t need anyone to tell her that climate change is real. Her country and its people already are experiencing its effects.

COVID-19 helping to fuel global hunger

Posted June 15th, 2020

With the coronavirus continuing to infect scores of people daily worldwide, the number of people experiencing acute hunger is expected to skyrocket globally, and some partners of the Presbyterian Hunger Program say the economic ramifications of the pandemic already are hurting the ability of people around the globe to feed themselves and their families.

Presbyterian Disaster Assistance grant helps network share lifesaving information in Haiti

Posted June 11th, 2020

As Americans watched the pandemic move across the globe with startling speed, we thought about our medically vulnerable relatives, our children and the elderly. We planned how to gather food and water, made sure we had medicine in our homes. We washed our hands, didn’t touch our face and if we had to leave the house, we put on a face mask. It was inconvenient, but for most of us, possible.