Planting churches to reach the Haitian people in the United States and Canada

Together with my co-laborer and friend Leroy Fountain, I've visited with leaders in New York City working with Haitian Mission Network, a network of Haitian Baptist Pastors in the United States and Canada with a goal of 400 churches by 2020. Message to existing churches: "Each One plant One". The leaders gathered at the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention in Atlanta on March of 2010 in the wake of the earthquake in Haiti to: Discover what individual churches and ministries are already doing in assisting Haitian recovery; Prepare for new ministry opportunities among the newly arrived Haitian people in the United States and Canada and; Respond with a contextual approach of intra-cultural and cross-cultural mission activities focusing on church planting. As a followup to Atlanta meeting, on September 26, Haitian pastors and leaders from forty churches and thirteen states were part of an event at French Speaking Baptist Church in Brooklyn NYC to give thanks and celebrate the advancement of the Kingdom of God focusing on planting churches in the United States and Canada. The host church pastor, brother Jean-Baptiste Thomas was instrumental in the planting of over 40 churches in the last few decades and is a great advocate of church planting in North America. To advance the vision of church planting, a similar event is scheduled to be held on October 24 at French Speaking Baptist Church in Stamford, Connecticut (Pastor Emmanuel St Juste) where the vision of church planting in North America will be shared with other pastors and leaders. Check the blog here. 
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Mark Hobafcovich - Church Planting Consultant, North American Mission Board, SBC.