(AKA Jimitry Pierre or Jimmy) Prison Ministry Leader / English Teacher / Translator My name is Pierre Jimtry. I am 23. I grew up in a Christian family with 2 sisters and 4 more brothers. I accepted Jesus as my savior when I was just 10 years old and have been trying to follow Him in my life and work ever since. I have always had a passion for languages so when I was in junior high school, I went to an institute to learn English. I found the language was so good and sweet to s

JOHN 15:13 "Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends" September is here with the 'dog days' of August and the hurricane season. We are all saddened and inspired by the events happening in Texas and Louisianna this past week with the arrival and aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. Seeing God work in such a powerful and meaningful way in the lives of so many people just fills us with awe. The speedy actions of so many people who risked their lives

Today was a time of great joy for all of us at Ignite Your Faith Ministries as one of our own gets married to the love of his life. Congratulations to Marco and his beautiful bride. Enjoy the photos! #Haiti #IYFM #IgniteYourFaith #wedding #celebration

Over 37,900 people in Haiti are still living in temporary camps set up over 7 years ago after the 2010 Earthquake? The photo attached is an example of such a camp. In the years since the earthquake over 1.5 million People have been relocated from camps, but the government is still working to relocate the rest of these people. In some cases, the people who got into these camps were 'the lucky ones'. Many people just stumbled into the hills and started over again without any he

What a blessing to be a part of the solution for this your man. Back in March, Salengro’s mother had left to try to find work, leaving Salengro in the care of relatives. The relatives, it turns out, were not able to care for him. He was not eating and had no place to sleep. He had fallen into a depression and had given up all hope. Tom became aware of the situation and offered him a home as long as he needed one at the mission house. Sal, for short, was finally able to find t

Bookkeeper/Mission House Manager Several years ago, while Tom was working with Jesus in Haiti Mission they had a mentoring program. The kids who attended the program got one meal every day at the meetings. Reggie started in this program when he was 15. A little while later Reggie came to church one day and accepted Jesus as his Lord and Savior and was baptized shortly after that. A few weeks after Reggie’s baptism, on a hot day in the middle of July, Tom saw Reggie walking do

Katie Joy was visiting Ignite Your Faith Ministries on location in Haiti this past week and here is her point of view on the trip. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ My name is Katie Williams, I'm 19 years old, I live in Southern Illinois. I recently took my first international mission trip to Haiti to work with Ignite Your Faith Ministries. Ever since I was little I always learned about people going to different countries to teach others about God, saw pictures of what th

Ignite Your Faith Ministries has had a Goat Program from nearly the very beginning. The Goat Program serves three purposes, the first two of which are very practical and the third is leaning more toward the spiritual. Let’s have a look at how this program works. The IYFM team visits people in the village on a regular basis. When they find a family that would be a good match for the goat program they tell them about the program. Once informed about the program, the familie

We are so excited to be welcoming a few groups to Haiti this month to work on various projects in and around the mission! We actually have three teams visiting this month, but we’ll talk about the third team at a little later date. Right now, I would like to share with you some of the great things happening these next couple of weeks. Tomorrow, Anna Heights Baptist Church will be arriving with a team of 6 from Anna, Illinois. This group includes one of IYFM board members, Pa

SO, HOW DID THE WALK OF FLAME GO? Hi from Haiti, Wow, this past week has been awesome! Sorry for the delay on updating you all with the Walk of Flame. We did the 5-mile wal. OOPS, it turned out to be 6 1/2 miles as one of our visiting girls had a pedometer. It was a nice hot sunny day here in Haiti, getting up to 101 degrees that day with high humidity. So, we were feeling the flames! It was very encouraging to me that my entire staff was with me, plus two American missionari

We have had a couple of exciting and busy days here at Ignite Your Faith Ministries, going to give you a full report on the WALK OF FLAME very soon, but first I want to tell you all about our visit to the prison yesterday and how God is working to open the doors even wider. We had been told this was a kids prison, which turned out to be a little misleading as we had thought young kids. It turned out that it was 110 young men ages 16-18, more teens and young adults, but still