A group of students from Moody Bible Institute traveled to Honduras to help with Hurricane Mitch relief efforts. The concept for Paulos Group is formed out of this life-changing experience.
Two decades in the making and our story has just begun.
Learn about the milestones that have brought us to where we are today.
A group of students from Moody Bible Institute traveled to Honduras to help with Hurricane Mitch relief efforts. The concept for Paulos Group is formed out of this life-changing experience.
Paulos Group is officially established in Fort-Liberté, Haiti.
The devastating earthquake took the lives of countless thousands, and shifted our efforts from a resource center to building and infrastructure.
We broke ground on our Fort-Liberté research and development campus that houses some of our staff today and Mille Collines Depot.
With the help of friends we translated The Jesus Storybook Bible into Haitian Creole, which is widely distributed throughout the country.
After years of developing our team and incubating solutions “in house”, we begin consistently working off-campus, taking what we’ve learned “to the streets”, to bring our neighbors' dreams to life.
We opened Mille Collines Depot, a grocery and equipment store in Fort-Liberté. Hurricane Matthew ravages part of Haiti, but our team is resilient and quickly uses our relational network to activate assistance.
Organizational re-visioning and re-messaging begins.
Mille Collines Depot shifts focus to building supply. Côte Brillante is founded.
In Haiti, gaps exist between good intentions and fruitful outcomes.
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We know these to be true because many were once true of us. Fearing abuses in leadership because of previous mission experiences, in 2009 we created an organization that soon became impossible to lead. It didn’t take long for relationships to break down through infighting over the use of start-up funds and a lack of clarity of purpose. In 2015 we went to God in prayer seeking forgiveness, renewal, and a fresh start. Since then, God has humbled our hearts and given us new perspective, while steadily growing the organization and its influence. So we don't critique aid and mission organizations because we think we know better; rather, there is value in the lessons learned in growing more healthy on the journey from good intentions to fruitful outcomes. We choose to be gap eliminators by being transparent in our story. |
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Our Missionis making disciples and creating jobs in Haiti through developing local businesses. |
Our Visionis that people and conditions can change and be made whole in Christ. |
We believe in the dignity, talents and dreams of every person. Because of this, we respond, rather than react, to local problems using local solutions. We've found that by being flexible in our model, yet fixed in our core values, we’ve witnessed amazing things in the lives of people. We say "witness" because we know we are not the ultimate transformers of hearts and minds. Only God can do that. And so it is through Him we commit our honest desires to be a part of life transformation here.
We invest time and resources into a select number of people who can in turn make the greatest impact in a community, a region, a nation.
Technology, Methods, Practices, Materials, Products, Services, Collaborations, Resources
Solutions, Practices, Concepts, Businesses, Services, Products, Organizations, Relationships
People, Businesses, Donors, Partners, Aid Orgs, Missions, Churches
Individuals, Organizations, Communities, Churches, Governments
We don't force our ideas, technology, or models onto people; rather we allow ideas, businesses and solutions to flow from the people who best understand Haiti. We collaborate to make these initiatives a reality.
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What We Do is made possible only by God's grace. And He's using people like you to help fulfill the vision of changing people and conditions to be made whole in Christ. Consider investing into what God is up to in Haiti. Our home.
