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Business as Usual

At JP, it's business as usual. Since the rains commenced in November, we have recommenced our march to plant 100,000 trees. We used the final month of the dry season to recruit additional families and are already working with 10 new farm households. At JP, everyone appreciates the trust these families place in us. On our instructions, they are abandoning some of their practices and learning new ones, which can be unsettling, especially for people who rely entirely on what they can grow.


Our goal is to plant 15,000 trees by the end of January, bringing our total to 65,000 trees. While the number of trees is essential and serves as our guidepost, our real accomplishment is transforming deteriorating farms into productive ones. In the meantime, our agronomy staff have been following up with the households from the first 50,000 trees planted to make sure their success is sustained. This is time-consuming but essential. You don’t learn to play the piano with one lesson, and the same goes for good farming.


At JP’s headquarters near Terrier Rouge, we are finishing construction of a cassava bread plant that JP will operate to produce cassava bread for the local market, where it is hard to find. We hope a better supply will improve the local diet, dominated by imported white rice and pasta, and replace imported food with locally grown farm commodities. Diets heavy with refined rice and pasta are associated with diabetes, hypertension, and a lack of dietary fiber. You’re as healthy as what you eat. The fact is, the diet of rural Haiti is more nutritious than that of urban Haiti, which now includes the population of Terrier Rouge, half of whom are children. We hope that cassava, along with yams and sweet potatoes, will regularly appear in school lunches, thereby contributing to public health. As for rural folk, their food problems stem from inadequate supply due to poor farm production, which is the focus of our effort to increase food crop production on Haiti’s predominantly small family farms.


At Partner For People And Place, we are busy laying our plans for 2026 and, as always, are

grateful to be a part of Bethlehem Ministry’s mission.


Rob

Rob Fisher, Executive Director

Partner For People And Place/JP Haiti




Thank you!

On behalf of all of us at Bethlehem Ministry, thank you for your truly meaningful and critical support! We are thrilled to share this video with you featuring our students and program staff - from St. Barthélémy School, Clinique Espérance et Vie, the NGO Espérance et Vie, and Jatrofa Projenou (JP) - along with brothers and sisters of ours impacted by these programs in Haiti! Without each of you - our AMAZING supporters - none of this incredible work would be possible! Thank you! Mesi! Merci!



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Build Each Other Up

Updated: Nov 30, 2025

"Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.”

(1 Thessalonians 5:11)


Have you ever seen a stone wall or building? My fireplace has many stones stacked on top of each other in this beautiful pattern. Each stone is of different sizes and shapes, but they come together as a strong, gorgeous structure. It’s a powerful picture of what we are all a part of through Bethlehem Ministry. Each person can give differently, but together, we can proclaim hope and life in Haiti in concrete ways.


The Apostle Paul reminds us that it is part of our calling as people of faith to encourage one another and build each other up, even as we are doing. As we reflect on this past year and look toward next year for the work of Christ that goes on in Terrier Rouge, we should celebrate all the ways the hungry have been fed, children educated, health care provided, and needs met in Terrier Rouge.


Thank you to everyone who has given to make that happen. We also invite you to be a part of continuing this work. The end of the year is a great time to give of the resources God has blessed us with, that others might be encouraged and built up. It is also a time when we can make a commitment to give regularly for next year so that our organization can continue in the work of reaching out with Christ’s love to our brothers and sisters in Haiti.


These days, we never know what the news headlines will proclaim, and we may even feel as if we don’t know what the next day will bring, but there are many who are unheard, unseen, who cry out in hunger, sickness, despair. However, together, we can encourage one another, building each other up, as indeed we are doing. Let us give thanks for the work of Bethlehem Ministry and the opportunities we have to continue that work and share hope and life in Haiti.


Peace,

Pastor Leigh Jones



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