A Rough Year in Haiti

Haiti 2025 - Diane Moffi, howFar Haiti Director

 

It's been another rough year for the people of Haiti.  Gangs control 90% of the capital, Port au Prince and are expanding their territory outside the capital at an alarming rate!

 

With all that going on, howFar Haiti created a program in 2025 for at-risk children called:  “I am Worthy”. The program is designed to take children who might tend to fall into gang-related activity and teach them about God and his love and his plan for each of us.  They are taught about self-esteem and how to conduct themselves in society, they learn about sports and the importance of being in school.  Our onsite director, Alince Joseph said this about the program:  “Our priority for them is to create a strong new generation who loves God, has the ability to develop themselves into productive adults and stay in school.”  There are ten children in the program right now and they meet once a month on a Saturday.

 

Please pray that God will continue to bless this program and that we can expand to include even more children in 2026.

They Beat Us With Rods

Merry Christmas from the global howFar Team - Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, DR Congo, Haiti and Thailand.

 howFar will you go this Christmas to share the story of Emmanuel? 

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DR Congo Orphan Care

For over a decade howFar Ministries and The How Far Foundation have cared for 24 war orphans, in two homes, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Most of these children witnessed their parents slaughtered by various rebel groups. 

We have watched as they have grown and are extremely proud of their performance in primary and secondary school.  Most of them are in the top 5 students in their class.

Pastor John and his wife have 17 children in their home.

Abel and his wife care for seven children in their home.

To invest in the care and education of these precious at howFar.org.

Thank you for partnering with us to care for the widow and the orphan.

Mark Maynard July 16, 2025

"They have been through hell!" Goma, DR Congo Update

Many are not aware of the ongoing conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. M23 Rebels, backed by Rwanda, have captured the strategic cities of Goma and Bukavu. The war has displaced millions of people and caused a humanitarian crisis. 

In the midst of the turmoil are ten churches planted by howFar Ministries. News outlets have reported mass killings, torture, and sexual abuse. Many of our people have lost everything they have and are suffering terribly. In May, we sent thousands of dollars to provide food and water to Rachuru and Mudja church members forced from their homes by armed rebels. 

The situation is dire.

"Speaking from the Goma region, whose main city was overrun by Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in January, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher explained that people had suffered “decades of trauma”.

The last few months have been “particularly horrific for so many”, he added, referring to the lawless fall-out from heavy fighting this year between the rebel fighters and the regular DRC army that has been linked to serious human rights abuses, including potential war crimes.

“Most striking today and yesterday has been the stories of sexual violence, and sitting with women who tell horrific stories which are too horrific for me to tell here and who are trying to find the courage to rebuild their lives,” the UN relief chief said.

“We’re there providing that support to them, trying to help them rebuild, but they have been through hell.”"

Source, https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/06/1164981

howFar Ministries has planted 16 churches in eastern DR Congo and operates two orphanages. Plans are underway now to launch a Pastor's Training Center in Goma in 2026.

Please pray for the saints at our churches in eastern DR Congo. 

howFar will you go? 

Mark Maynard - June 27, 2025

 

Tanzania howFar Pastor's Training Center and Bible College Update

In 2022, howFar Ministries, in partnership with the Baptist Churches of Tanzania, launched a Pastor's Training Center near Lossimingori, Tanzania. For us, it was the realization of a prayer that we first offered up as early as 2002, that God, through howFar Ministries, would allow us to train indigenous Maasai men who, in turn, would disciple, train and pastor their kinsman in rural churches.

Renée and Mark Maynard at the howFar Ministries Pastor's Training Center 2024 graduation.

To invest in the education of a pastor click here or to receive more information contact us at mark@howFar.org.

Since then two classes of men have graduated from the training center and the third cohort will graduate in the summer of 2026.

Class of 2022

Class of 2024

Class of 2026

Every man who attends our Pastors Training Center has, or will, go out and plant a new church. To date, 24 new churches have been planted and another 12 will begin in the summer of 2026.

No initiative we have launched has been as successful as this and we are praising God for its success.

"All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work" 2 Timothy 3:15-16

Students attend the howFar Pastor's Training Center at no cost to them. Our generous sponsors ensure that they receive a thorough conservative education in a culture where it would be impossible for them to be able to afford it.

The cost to train one pastor, including classes, books, full room and board is $1200.

To invest in the education a pastor click here.

howFar will you go? 

The How Far Foundation, Inc. is a 501c3 non profit. All donations are tax deducatable.

Lake Jipe Orkung'u Primary School

Telling Bible stories to Maasai children at the primary school howFar Ministries founded at Lake Jipe Orkung'u, Kenya 20 years ago. 

Sept 2024 Visit. howFar will you go? www.howFar.org