Michel Poirier and his wife Ruth live in Québec but minister in two other French-speaking cultures. For decades, he has worked to plant churches in Canada, but he also has a burden for the French speakers of Haiti and Cameroon (Africa) and travels to those areas as often as he can. 

In a country where poverty and violence touches almost everyone, it is no easy task to get food. Bro. Mike says that the Haitians he serves are thankful to have just one meal a day, so he and his church leaders are constantly shipping food, supplies, clothes and basic survival necessities to the churches. There are three churches that depend on those daily shipments.  

One of those churches is in the city of Onaville, where a school has been established to not only teach children but also to feed them at least one meal they would not have otherwise. For the sixty children who attend the school, Brother Mike says they are working on a way to be able to feed all of them one meal a day for the coming school year.Poverty causes another worry for Haitians: street gangs. Recently two Onaville church families were beaten up by gang members who demanded money from them. No money was ever found, and the wives – the only victims who faithfully attend church – were not touched by the criminals.