Fishing Ministry

Get into a 150 pound canoe carved out of a mango tree, spend half the night trying to catch bait fish, then at sunrise paddle three hours out, put out 15-20 gallon jugs each with a 100 yards of line and a steel hook, wait until a fish comes along and takes your bait, track him down in your canoe, pull in the line by hand, spear the 7 foot sailfish and throw it into your 12 foot canoe,paddle a couple of hours to collect the rest of your jugs, paddle three hours home, cut the fish into little pieces, sell the little pieces beside the road and then do it all again. After that, you can call yourself a Haitian fisherman.

New Vision is pouring into 13 of these fishermen, helping to develop their fishing businesses and teaching about the plan God has for their lives. We meet weekly to go over business ideas as well as share the truth of the Bible with them. We are also teaching them life lessons about taking care of their families and giving to others, along with teaching them to read and write. Most of them also are eager to learn English. This program has become the backbone of our economic development program for Montrouis.

We help the fisherman fish better by providing supplies and improved techniques to catch more bait and fish.  New Vision buys their fish to feed hundreds of people per month including our orphanage, the elderly feeding program, and the school feeding program.  With the leftover fish, we search for other missions to sell it to who have feeding programs or other needs.

Our big link is that we can offer storage of the fish through freezers. No one here has electricity enough to have freezers. By making our own electricity we can run freezers and thereby store the fish until we use or resell it.

Needs for the Fishing Program:

1. People to help us buy the fish.  You can make a one-time gift or buy a certain number of pounds per month.  We pay $1.65 per pound for sailfish, mahi mahi, yahoo and tripletail.
2. Help buying diesel to run the freezers.  The freezers enable us to be good stewards of the fish being caught and allow us to sell it later to others.
3. Supplies, such as hooks, lines, boats, rods and reels, etc. We have had boats and a motor donated to us by a friend in North Carolina and we are in the process of getting them shipped down to Haiti.
4. Prayers!  We have already has one of our fishermen die suddenly of a stroke.  We pray they will choose Christ and worship Him alone.