Easter Crusade Aims to Help Resurrect Haiti

31/03/2010 09:16:00

Healing 4 Haiti will be held near the National Palace, which was devastated by the Jan. 12 quake.

Roughly 1,000 pastors in Haiti are expected to participate in a two-day event aimed at teaching church leaders to pray for physical and emotional healing in a nation still reeling from the January earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people.

Led by evangelist Joan Hunter, daughter of healing ministers Charles and Frances Hunter, the training event begins Wednesday in Port-au-Prince. It leads up to a three-day Healing 4 Haiti crusade Easter weekend that is expected to draw more than a million people in the nation’s capital.

“We’re training them and starting off on Good Friday talking about the resurrection power of Jesus those three days and the resurrection of Haiti also,” said Hunter, who is using a French translation of her parents’ classic series, How to Heal the Sick, as part of the training. Hunter’s ministry is also helping pay for the pastors’ food, lodging and transportation.

The crusade will be held near the National Palace, which was ruined in the quake. Organizers hope the President and Prime Minister will attend the Easter service, which will be a corporate gathering of dozens of area churches.

Though humanitarian needs remains, Hunter said, government leaders have been asking for psychologists to help survivors cope with the trauma of the earthquake and the guilt of having lived when their loved ones died.

By Adrienne S. Gaines
Photo: Orlando Barria/EPA

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