Emmanuel International Missions

About Us.

What We Do

We plant churches, build schools, send medical teams, and walk with families through hardship. Not because we have all the answers — but because the Gospel compels us to show up, stay, and serve.

It's All About the Great Commission!

Our work centers on four pillars: spreading the Gospel through church planting, expanding access to education, extending healthcare to those without it, and strengthening families and communities from within.

Education as a Path to Freedom

Investing in minds, one generation at a time.

We Offer Free Schools for Children

We operate and fully fund three evangelical schools in Haiti, where children receive a quality education at no cost to their families. In communities where school fees are often the only barrier between a child and their future, our schools remove that barrier entirely. Each school is staffed by trained teachers, rooted in Gospel values, and committed to forming the whole child — intellectually, spiritually, and socially.

We Open Doors to Professional & Higher Education

For young people in the communities we serve, the path to university or professional training is rarely straightforward. We provide full scholarships that cover tuition, materials, and support — from vocational and continuing education programs all the way through university degrees. We invest in young people who have the will to grow but not yet the means, because their education is also an investment in the future of their community.

We Equip Leaders to Serve Their Own Communities

We invest in the formation of local leaders — church staff, community organizers, and emerging voices — by giving them access to education, training, and resources that strengthen their ability to serve. When a pastor is better equipped, the congregation grows stronger. When a community leader is trained, whole neighborhoods benefit. We don’t just build schools — we build the people who build communities.

Community That Holds Together

Standing with families and neighborhoods

We Assist Families Through Hard Seasons

Some needs don’t fit a program. A family loses a parent. A household runs out of food. A crisis hits before there’s any safety net to catch it. We step into those moments — with practical support, pastoral care, and the kind of sustained presence that doesn’t disappear after the immediate need is met. Our family support work is driven by relationship, not transaction. We show up because the Gospel calls us to, and we stay because that’s what it means to be a community.

Small Investments, Lasting Impact!

Not every need requires a large organization — some of the most effective work happens at the scale of a single well, a roof repair, a generator for a clinic, or tools for a local craftsman. We fund carefully selected small projects that address concrete needs in the communities we serve. Each project is identified through relationships on the ground, evaluated for lasting impact, and supported in a way that builds local capacity rather than outside dependence.

Periodic mission trips

Going In Person. Because Presence Matters.

Financial support sustains the work. But there is something that only happens when people show up in person — relationships deepen, needs become visible, and the local church is reminded that it is not forgotten. Every year, our teams travel to Haiti to stand alongside our mission churches, serve the surrounding communities, and do the kind of work that can’t be done from a distance.

Taking the Gospel Into the Streets

We don’t wait for people to come to us. Our teams go door to door, street by street, bringing the Gospel directly to people in the neighborhoods surrounding our churches. In the evenings, we hold large outdoor services — open to everyone, under the open sky — where worship, preaching, and prayer draw crowds from across the community. These nights have become some of the most significant moments of our trips.

Medical Care for Those Who Have None

During each trip, we set up free medical clinics staffed by volunteer healthcare professionals from our team. Community members who have no access to regular medical care can come and receive consultations, basic treatment, and essential supplies at no cost. The clinics run for as long as there are people to serve — which is always longer than anticipated.

A Week the Children Don't Forget

We run a full Vacation Bible School for the children of the community — combining Scripture, learning, and activities into a week-long program that many kids look forward to all year. The week ends with a celebration: a party where every child receives a gift. For children in communities with very little, it’s a moment of joy that goes beyond the gift itself. It’s a picture of being seen, known, and loved.

A Proper Start for Families Who Deserve One

We fully fund weddings for couples in the community who want to formalize their commitment but don’t have the means to do so. It’s not a small gesture — in Haitian culture, a wedding is a significant social and spiritual milestone. Giving couples a real celebration, with everything it takes to do it properly, is an act of dignity as much as generosity. Families leave with a memory, a record, and a beginning that was marked well.

Room to Breathe in a Country That Rarely Offers It

Haiti’s young people carry an enormous weight. Political instability, economic hardship, and daily uncertainty take a toll that doesn’t always show — but it accumulates. Our annual youth camp brings together more than 500 young people for a week designed to give them something they rarely get: room to breathe, to laugh, to connect, and to encounter God in a context that feels safe and full of life.

The week is full — soccer tournaments, a pageant, Bible trivia, meals together, visits to local sites, and training sessions that invest in their growth as people and as believers. It is spiritual and it is fun, on purpose. We believe young people don’t have to choose between the two, and a week like this makes that argument better than any sermon could.

The Church at the Center of Everything

Planting, sustaining, and equipping local churches to carry the Gospel forward.

Every school we fund, every family we support, every medical team we send — all of it flows from a conviction that the local church is God’s primary instrument for lasting change. Through our mission in Haiti and our partnerships in South Florida and beyond, we plant churches, train pastors, and make sure that the people doing the work on the ground are not doing it alone.

Through our Haitian mission — Société Missionnaire Baptiste Emmanuel d’Haïti — we have planted ten Emmanuel Baptist Churches across Haiti. Each congregation is led by a trained pastor, structured for ministry, and equipped to serve both its members and the surrounding community. We don’t plant and move on. We stay connected through ongoing leadership training, regular pastoral support, and periodic mission trips that bring our teams alongside local church leaders to assess needs, strengthen ministry, and work together in the community. The goal is churches that are rooted, self-sustaining, and committed to the same Great Commission that sent us there in the first place.

We financially support every church in our Haitian mission — covering pastors’ salaries and select staff so that the people called to serve those congregations can do so without the weight of financial instability. When a building needs repair or renovation, we assist. When a ministry needs resources to keep going, we provide them.

Beyond Haiti, we participate in the broader work of the Gospel through the Florida Baptist Convention’s Cooperative Program and a partnership with the North American Mission Board — extending our reach to places we cannot go directly. We also join mission efforts with partners in other countries, believing that the mandate to make disciples of all nations is one we carry together, not alone.