Saturday, October 10

Haiti

The Farmer’s Movement of Papay is improving agricultural practices to help increase food security for the people of Haiti.

Cooperative efforts of the Presbyterian Hunger Program, through mission co-worker Mark Hare and young members of the Farmer’s Movement of Papay, are addressing critical food and water shortage issues prevalent in Haiti.

Pix Mahler, PC(USA) Haiti partnership facilitator, witnessed the effect of a combination of innovation, determination, sweat equity, and hope on a previously barren piece of rocky hillside while visiting the Papay area. She had come to see the “Road to Life Yard,” an outdoor laboratory operated by the Farmer’s Movement of Papay, a grassroots union formed to empower the rural poor. On this derelict plot of land, farmers are experimenting with techniques to improve both production and the physical health of the soil.

Raising healthy animals as part of an improved ecosystem, developing labor and water conservation techniques, strengthening community, and blending new ideas with Haitian know-how are the results of doing, loving, and walking.

There is justice in sharing knowledge. Love is expressed in kindness shown for the needs of one another. Walking humbly with God means working and living side by side with one’s brothers and sisters.

Let us join in prayer for:
PC(USA) People in Mission
Episcopal Diocese of Haiti: Sharyn Babe, professor of education, Pix Mahler, partnership facilitator (U.S.-based)
Mark Hare, community development, Presbyterian Hunger Program

Partners/Ministries
Episcopal Diocese of Haiti (EEH): The Rt. Rev. Jean Zaché Duracin, bishop, Father Kesner Ajax, partnership program coordinator

Presbytery Partnerships
Presbytery of Coastal Carolina, Presbytery of Greater Atlanta and Presbytery of the Peaks with the EEH

PC(USA) General Assembly Staff
The Rev. Elisabel Ruiz-Quiros, FDN
Yvette Russell-Minor, BOP
Brandon Rutkowski, BOP

Prayer
Thank you, God, for your beautiful creation and for those who work to replenish it. We ask that you would give wisdom to the members of the Farmer’s Movement of Papay as they serve the people of Haiti. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

Daily Lectionary
Ps. 104, 149 Ps. 138, 98
Jer. 35:1–19
1 Cor. 12:27–13:3; Matt. 9:35–10:4