loveBig is excited to announce that we are partnering with our dear friend Junior Charles and 360 Project to support a second school and feeding center in Haiti!
Junior Charles started the Eglise Baptiste Point de La Vie church on the first Sunday of January of 2017 in Meilleur, Haiti. In 2018, he and the church opened the Institution Mixte Bread of Life school to support the families of the church and the community. Jerry Gifford and Life Point Church partnered with Junior to support the church and school. Once the school was established, Jerry & Life Point Church started 360 Project to financially support the school. The school started with 34 students and over the years they have grown to 68 students. Six months after the school started they expanded the school to offer a feeding program for the students as well. Due to many recent factors 360 Project reached out to loveBig and asked us to partner with them to support this amazing ministry. After many months of prayer the loveBig board feel that God is leading us to expand our ministry and combine our two ministries into one. loveBig will begin supporting both ministries on August 1, 2022.
loveBig has a long and blessed relationship with Junior Charles. Angela and I met Junior on first our mission trip to Haiti. Junior was our faithful guide, interpretor, liaison and answered our thousand questions. When we decided to return just two short months later Junior again was our guide and liaison. Angela and I quickly established a friendship with Junior and He has been a major support to us and the loveBig ministry in Haiti. We have been had the blessing of meeting his beautiful wife and children and worshipping with them in his church during our many trips to Haiti.
We are so excited to work directly with Junior Charles and pray that God will use this ministry to bless the people in the community and that many will come to know the Lord through this school and feeding center.
Sweet time of fellowship at Eglise Baptiste Point de La Vie
Junior Charles visit to Kentucky
Students at Istitution Mixte Bread of Life
As the hardships in Haiti continue to grow, God continues to use loveBig and the school and feeding center in Mina to meet the needs of the people in the Mina community. The school has grown to over 260 students. In a recent conversation Pastor Supreme explained that he has parents come daily begging for their children to be allowed into the school and feeding center. He said if we had the money and the capacity, we would have over 500 children. Pastor Supreme is tasked with evaluating each case and accepting the most dire cases. We praise God for the families we are able to serve but pray that God would open the doors so that we would not have to turn anyone away.loveBig needs:
1. Finances to finish building the school. We currently have 5 operating classrooms.
2. Finances to hire additional teachers. $1500/year per teacher. We need to hire a minimum of 2 new teachers.
3. Additional finances for food. The cost of goods have increased in some cases 9 times
the cost of 2 years ago.
Mina students
Mina Feeding Center
Preschool students