Haitian Youth Ministries

Our center is just one of many in the Futuro Lleno de Esperanza Foundation. The history is that "our" Futuro was conceived and built based on a need conveyed by the people of our community, and once it began to "run itself," the founders felt called to expand. While we work closely with the foundation, our ministry is a little different than the rest of the foundation since we work in a purely Dominican community and other other centers - more than 50 small churches and 20 learning centers - are situated in purely Haitian migrant communities.

This December, we all had the opportunity to put together a 3 day retreat for high school students involved in our Haitian community ministries. The team at Futuro helped to put together the schedule and leadership activities, and the pastors and leaders of the churches helped to run the show.

40 teenagers took part in the retreat from 5 of the church communities. We had a great time developing leadership skills, studying the Bible, playing games and fellowshipping together. The leaders of the retreat identified some teen leaders who, if they accept, will take part in more leadership training and be in charge of future retreats and youth activities - making it a locally, youth led ministry

Short term teams will have the opportunity to join in this leadership training this year! We are looking for ways to increase authentic, meaningful, mutual learning between our teens and the teens who come to share with us on short term trips.