✨2O23✨ Happy New Year!

We hope your Christmas was blessed and we wish you a new year filled with hope and purpose!

2022 HIGHLIGHTS

• The PLH Haitian staff rose to the challenge of running the organization in Haiti without any US staff in the country. We saw the capability of Haitians when trained well, invested in, and empowered to lead.
  

• Construction of the kitchen and fruit drying facility was completed.
  

• The purified water station was constructed.
  

• PLH was awarded a grant from UMCOR to help fund the construction of the PLH Educational Center.
  

• Seven PLH staff attended a two-day leadership conference in Port-au-Prince.
  

• PLH hosted soccer academy games.
  

• PLH hosted two months of summer classes for kids in the community to learn English and artisan crafts.
  

• A champion from Oregon taught an 8-week personal finance class via Zoom for PLH staff and local community members.
  

• Laura Polynice, PLH Administrative Assistant, and her husband, Wahi, welcomed their first child, Jesher.
  

• We celebrated the wedding of PLH staff member Wilson Emmanuel and his bride, Madlinie.
  

• PLH employee Guy Destine and his wife, Jesula, welcomed their third son, Guy-Lensky.
  

• PLH and 19 pastors from Camp Marie and the neighboring communities came together to discuss the current state in Haiti, its impact on the community, and how we can help the community rise above.
  

• The staff celebrated another year with a staff Christmas party at the beach.
  

• PLH hosted its 3rd annual Christmas Eve Candlelight service.

While 2022 held significant challenges, the achievements from the year, were all made possible through the donations, support, and generosity of the PLH community. Through all the PLH programs and projects, our mission is always to draw others nearer to Him. We are humbled by all that God has done in and through Project Living Hope.

But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Isaiah 40:31

Leadership in Times of Crisis: An Edifying Conference

By Wilson Emmanuel

In March of this year, PLH sent me and 6 others from PLH to Port-au-Prince to participate in a two-day leadership conference for the 80th Anniversary at STEP (Seminar of Evangelical Theology of Port-au-Prince).

The conference had other organizations as well and church leaders, pastors, institutional leaders, civil servants, and others.

The presenters shared five main topics:

1. Leadership in Times of Crisis

2. Approaching Crisis with Vision, Understanding, Clarity, and Agility 

3. Methods of Organization: Strategic Management and Operational Management

4. Creating a High Performing Team

5. Decision in Uncertainty: How to Evaluate, Anticipate and then Act 

Through this conference, my colleagues and I have been edified.  I liked it because I learned a lot.  Now, I hope to address the crises and I understand more clearly than before the vision of PLH. PLH is here to help us change Haiti, not to change Haiti themselves.  PLH promised us training so that they could participate in the development of Haiti by making students. When PLH sends us to learn, we can be equipped to help bring about change in our country. The projects to develop Haiti are very real.

A big thank you to everyone that contributed to our exceptional and extraordinary training. God bless you.