Heartline Ministries

With a commitment to Relationship, integrity, and shalom, Heartline Ministries invests in families through a holistic approach that focuses on maternal care, education, economic opportunity, and outreach. All Heartline Ministries’ programs are designed and led with a focus on our end goal of healthy, thriving families.

Maternal Care: Holistic maternal justice and care are a top priority for Heartline Ministries. The main outcome that all maternal care activities revolve around is to provide a compassionate environment that promotes safe pregnancy and birth so that mothers and babies are healthy and thriving together. We believe that maternal care is vital to the rise of Haiti, and is the best and most long-lasting way to reduce the number of children placed in orphanages and effect change in our communities.

Education: The Heartline programs taking place on our Education and Employment Campus are a core part of the solution to providing the higher skills required for wage employment in Haiti. Education leading to jobs and economic opportunity combined with financial literacy provide a path to the self-determination Haitians want and need.

Economic Opportunity: We believe investing in Haitian families through Economic Opportunity will bring forth our vision of healthy, thriving Haitian families where women and men can parent and financially provide for their children and/or extended family members in a dignified, ethical and sustainable manner.

Outreach: We desire to see Haitians leading in their communities and meeting the physical and spiritual needs of their most vulnerable neighbors so that men and women may lead their own healthy, thriving families.

Heartline Ministries believes that sustainable solutions are realized through a holistic approach that equips people as the authors of their own development. Across all programming, Heartline Ministries emphasizes the participation and leadership of the local community and deep investment in the education and experience of Haitians to provide culturally relevant care and to maximize effectiveness and long-term sustainability.

The key strategies employed toward our vision of healthy, thriving Haitian families are:

1) Providing holistic prenatal and postpartum care, nutrition, and education to prevent maternal and infant mortality.

2) Empowering women and men with income-generating skills that help them gain economic self-sufficiency to adequately provide for their families.

3) Creating jobs that are sustainable in the local economy and not reliant upon the American marketplace or tourism.

4) Partnering with Haitian leaders to develop mutually transformational relationships with marginalized individuals and families in their local communities.

Heartline Ministries has operated in Haiti since 2000. This long history has provided a clear picture of the hard and challenging truth of life in Haiti, as well as the opportunity for relationships, effective systems, and financial accountability to be developed.

The majority of Heartline Ministries staff are Haitian, providing jobs in the formal economy for Haitians and promoting culturally appropriate and sustainable solutions. The Heartline Maternity Center is staffed by Certified Professional Midwives and Registered Nurses, in consultation with a Medical Doctor who provides routine training and protocol development.

Heartline Ministries operates in partnership with many other nonprofit organizations to share educational curricula, medications and supplies, food, best practices and lessons learned, and training resources. This collaborative approach improves development outcomes for the people served by maximizing efficiencies and reducing duplication of efforts.

In 2017, Heartline Ministries celebrated the 10 year anniversary of both the Maternity Center and Education Center. We celebrated the birth of the 1000th baby at the Heartline Maternity Center in 2019. As of 2022, we are maintaining an average of 110 births per year through the Heartline Maternity Center and in it's first year, we celebrated an additional 5 births at The Starting Place Birth and Wellness Center in Temple, Texas.

Heartline Ministries successfully completed a leadership transition in 2016. Additionally, we shifted away from hosting and managing large group mission trip experiences. When safe, we are able to facilitate occasional trips for organizations and groups that have an existing relationship with Heartline Ministries.