On Saturday, May 28, 2016, St. Mark Presbyterian was privileged to host Mark Hare and his two daughters. First, Mark preached "Eden Restored", then we had a pot luck dinner in Gleason Hall followed by Mark's presentation which highlighted both his mission and the work of his wife Jenny Bent in Haiti and Dominican Republic.
Mark's wife Jenny, originally from Nicaragua, is a mission worker with Evangelical Dominican Church working in Batey 7, where Haitian sugar cane workers live in Dominican Republic. In Batey 7, 30% of the people cannot read or write, 48% of children under 5 have no birth certificate, 36% of children have not been vaccinated, 21% go on to high school and 85 % of adolescents have no access to legal documents.
Mark's ministry, supported by St. Mark Presbyterian and the Presbyterian Mission Agency, is with Farmer's Movement of Papaye (MPP) a grassroots movement throughout Haiti whose goal is to help small farmers improve their living conditions and increase food production.
They have focused on involving families by encouraging them to growing their own food in recycled tires and planting of Moringa, a native plant which can be eaten or ground into a powder and made into a tea. It increase birth weight of babies, increases milk production in mothers who are breast feeding and combats malnutrition in young children. It grows well in that climate.
Genesis 2:8-10New International Version (NIV)
8 Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. 9 The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
10 A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters.
15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.
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