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THE BOWER FAMILY IN HAITI
Eglise Baptiste Maranatha
(Maranatha Baptist Church)

Location: Walondry, St. Raphael
(google maps coordinates: 19.419625,-72.201158)
Pastors: Timothy Bower, Vanier Pierre
The Walondry Campus is home and the base of all our ministries. The campus itself is divided into two sections, the Maranatha school campus and the missionary housing in the back. On the school campus we have the following ministries:           
  • Séminaire Théologique Maranatha (Seminary)
  • L'Ecole Professionnelle Maranatha (Ladies College) 
  • L'Ecole Adultes Maranatha (Adult literacy school)
  • L'Ecole Chrétienne Maranatha (Elementary school)
  • Eglise Baptiste Maranatha (Church)
  • Radio Evangelique Maranatha (Radio Station)
  • Medical Clinic

Maranatha Baptist Church is an Independent Baptist Church which meets on the Maranatha campus. We have a membership of 175 saved, baptized, and faithful people. Our ministry is to preach the gospel to the people of the Walondry area, with the hopes that people will repent and give their lives to Jesus Christ. We also teach the Bible daily with the desire that those who are already saved will grow and mature spiritually.

Maranatha Campus has several schools and a church, and requires a staff and administration for each ministry. Pastor Vanier Pierre is the pastor of Maranatha Baptist Church in concert with Timothy Bower. Vanier is a 2003 graduate of Maranatha's Seminary.

We have several missionary families residing on campus and administrating and/or helping with the ministries.
- Tim and RoseAnne Bower
- Harry and Melissa Peart (Elementary School and Church Planting)
- Keith and Theresa Baker (Seminary and Market MInistry)
- Dr Anne Livingston (Medical Clinic)
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Some of our church members in front of the church
All of our churches offer a full schedule of services:
(This is the same schedule of services for all of the churches we have planted.)

Sunday AM Sunday School
Sunday AM Morning Worship Service
Sunday PM Service
Monday - Friday 4AM Prayer Service
Wednesday PM Prayer Service
Thursday PM Bible Study
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Tim baptizing a new convert

L'Eglise de la Bible et L'Ecole Communautaire de Lina
(Lina Bible Church and Christian School)
Location: Lina, St. Raphael   (google maps coordinates: 19.480311,-72.208568)
Pastor: Moise Benoit
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The new church building, built in 2001
Pastor Moise preaching
Pastor Moise preaching
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Elementary school graduation at Lina church
Lina was our home for the first 4 years of our ministry in Haiti. Pastor Moise was our pastor as we were learning the language and as we were setting up and organizing the Bible Seminary. When we moved to Haiti in August of 1999, this church was meeting in a 25ft X 25ft building. The church had been started by missionary Evan Shaffer years prior to our arrival. Moise Benoit, the pastor, enrolled in the seminary as soon as it started in the fall of 2000. In the spring of 2001 we built a new church building for the church on an adjacent property there in Lina.

Pastor Moise has since started a primary school, which has over 200 children enrolled. Many of these children are orphans and unable to pay for their schooling. Pastor Moise is a motivated individual with a desire to serve God and help the community. He has also started a vocational school for young ladies. He started a microcredit ministry within the church which he calls "Chercher Lavi." We have the priviledge of supporting these ministries in a small way each month.
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Harvest Revival services in Lina

L'Eglise Baptiste de la Foi (Faith Baptist Church)
Location: Savane Bourg, St. Raphael   (google maps coordinates: 19.432441,-72.187058)
Pastor: Markelito Fanfan

Faith Baptist Church is an Independant Baptist Church in the Bouyara section of the St. Raphael Commune. The seminary students targeted that area for evangelism during their seminary studies, and the church is a direct result of that effort. The church is pastored by Markelito Fanfan who graduated from our seminary. Pastor Markelito also has a Christian school there.
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Revival service at Faith Baptist Church
PictureTim and Pastor Markelito
Prayer Requests
  • Pray for our pastor's spiritual health and physical health. Pray for their families.
  • Pray for their spiritual protection as they work for Christ in a voodoo environment, where demon worship is the mainstay.
  • Pray souls will be saved through their ministries.
  • Pray that God will use these churches to impact their respective communities for Christ.
  • Pray for each of the pastor’s financial support.


Eglise Baptiste Calvaire
(Calvary Baptist Church)

Location: Garde Biassou, St. Raphael
(google maps coordinates: 19.375602,-72.226678)
Pastors: Eliphene Belizaire, 
           Guillot Francois

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Calvary Baptist Church in Garde Biassou
PictureTim with pastors Guillot and Eliphene
Calvary Baptist Church was started by Pastor Eliphene Belizaire and Pastor Guillot
Francois in a small area called Garde Biassou south of St Raphael in 2007. They
met in a small mud house we rented for 3 years.

PictureChurch family at Gadre Biassou
As the church grew in size, the Lord provided a piece of property not far from the house we were renting. In 2010 the Lord miraculously provided the funds to build a new church building. Since that time the church has been growing slowly but steadily through the evangelistic efforts of it's two pastors.



Eglise Baptiste Shekinah
Location: Bassin Caiman, Dondon   (google maps coordinates: 19.480311,-72.208568)
Pastor: Frisnel Pierre

Basin Caiman is a village north of St. Raphael, near Dondon in Haiti. The area has a sizable population, but had no evangelical church meeting regularly. Pastor Frisnel began evangelizing the area in 2009. Shortly after he bagan meeting with the new converts in a temporary structure we call an "anga".  We were able to purchase property right across the street from a government primary school. We built a new building in November 2011, and the church has grown consistently because of Pastor Frisnel's evangelistic efforts in the area.
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The "anga" in Bassin Caiman
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Tim meeting with Pastor Frisnel
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New church built in 2011

Eglise Baptiste Manaheim
Location: Mathador, Dondon
(google maps coordinates: 19.507867,-72.253314)
Pastor: Daniel Sidalmé, Jasmin Pierre

In 2011, Pastor Daniel and Richelus Joseph began doing evangelistic work on the west side of Dondon in an area called Vincent in the Mathador section of Dondon. There are no other gospel preaching churches in the area. Mathador is a heavily populated but very rural area far from the main road. Because this area has not been evangelized, the people were not only receptive to the gospel, but eager for us to plant a church. In 2013, Pastor Richelus went to be with the Lord. Pastor Jasmin Pierre, one of the deacons in Maranatha Baptist Church in Wallondry, expressed a desire to continue where Pastor Richelus had left off.  In 2013, He and Daniel were able to find a piece of land there in Vincent Oje, near the town square, which we purchased. In February 2015, a work team from Indiana, Illinois, Florida, and Nova Scotia
came to Haiti and in concert with the Haitian people, built a beautiful new church building. Pray with us, that as this new church plant struggles to grow spiritually, that they will use this new blessing to glorify God and serve him with all their heart.
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Pastors Daniel Sidalmé and Jasmin Pierre
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Baptism in Bouyara River in Mathador
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Revival service at Manaheim Baptist Church


Eglise Baptiste Peniel
Location: Leogane, Port au Prince
(google maps coordinates: 18.528220, -72.605879)
Pastor: Roland Paul

Peniel Baptist Church was started by Roland Paul after his graduation from Maranatha Theological Seminary in 2007. He worked faithfully with earthquake refugees near the epicenter of the Jan 10, 2010 earthquake that killed over
250,000 people. Despite the fact that Roland's family has a nice home in Port au Prince, he preferred to live with the refugee in Leogane, where God has called him to minister For over 2 years, Roland lived in a tent and in a two sided dilapidated structure, refusing the comforts of home, for the sake of the ministry of the gospel. His display of character in the face of suffering touched the hearts of the refugees he was working with and gave him an opportunity to share the gospel of Christ's love. Many souls have come to Christ as a result of his ministry. We were able to help Roland purchase a piece of property in Leogane in 2012, and we helped build a new church building there in March 2013.
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Pastor Roland Paul
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New Peniel Baptist Church in Leogane
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First Sunday service after the construction

Eglise Baptiste Eben-Ezer
(Eben-Ezer Baptist Church)

Location: Cadush, Quartier Morin, Cap Haitien  
(google maps coordinates: 19.648139,-72.180581)

Pastor: Hector Couloute

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A Sunday service in the temporary "paysad" building.
PicturePastor Hector Coutloute


Cadush is an area between Grand Riviere and Cap Haitian, on the costal plain in the north of Haiti. Hector Couloute, a Maranatha Seminary graduate of 2008 has been pastoring this church since 2014. We purchased an acre and a half of land in Cadush in 2010, next door to a voodoo temple. In the Spring of 2017, we built a temporary church building from Royal Palm trees, a form of construction we call "paysad." Pray with us that the Lord will use Pastor Hectors evangelistic efforts to reach a community hardened by sin and entrenched in voodoo.


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Eglise Baptiste Eben-Ezer --- Pastor and Mrs Hector Couloute
Mail to reach us in Haiti
Tim and RoseAnne Bower,  Unit #1066-FBM,  3170 Airmans Dr.,  Ft. Pierce, FL 34946

Financial Correspondence
Tim and RoseAnne Bower,  Open Door Baptist Mission,  1115 Pelham Rd.,  Greenville, SC 29615
864-297-7890

Contact
(Haiti) +011-509-3999-6858 (WhatsApp)
(USA) 239-464-7019
(facebook) Tim and Roseanne bower
(email) bowerhaiti@gmail.com