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Marc & Lisa Honorat
Founders
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Marc and Lisa Honorat founded Haiti ARISE Ministries from a vision of planting a Bible College to help train godly leaders and a Technical College to provide skills training. This vision grew to encompass everything that Haiti ARISE is now endeavouring to accomplish to help the Haitian people. Marc is a native Haitian and has a desire to see change in his nation because he knows the peoples' plight so well as he experienced it himself.

Born into an impoverished family of 15 children, his parents gave him away at just 5 years old, with the hope that he would receive better care from someone else, but that never happened.

Marc’s father was a voodoo priest, which brought even more poverty to the family as he sacrificed his animals and crops to the devil. Marc, however, was spared from the influence of voodooism when he was given to a lady to be her restavek, a term for a Haitian slave child, in exchange for food and shelter. Sleeping on the floor and receiving one meal a day was his payment for cooking, cleaning, carrying water, and working in the garden for his mistress. He was not permitted to attend school and was often treated harshly. This is still a very common practice in Haiti.

At age twelve he was rescued by his brother and placed in a children’s home, where he was allowed to attend school for the first time. Thanks to the sponsorship of a very generous and loving Canadian, Claire Roberts & her family, he was able to graduate high school at age twenty-five. He then attended Caribbean Christ for the Nations Bible College in Montego Bay, Jamaica, for two years, and finished his Bachelor’s Degree in Theology at Evangel Bible College in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. His heart was always to go back to guide and encourage the people of Haiti toward change.

It was in Jamaica that Marc met Lisa, born in Washington state to a family of six. Raised in a Christian home, Lisa long felt the call of God on her life to be a missionary and pastor’s wife. When her first opportunity for ministry came, it was to Jamaica. This was a life-changing experience for her, not only because she met Marc, but also because it taught her what it really meant to lay down her life for others in need. Marc and Lisa quickly knew that God called them together, even though circumstances made it seem impossible.

They began a three-year long-distance courtship, during which time Lisa served in Rome, Italy, teaching African and Filipino refugee children in the International Christian School of Rome, and Marc returned to Haiti. In 1999 they were reunited in Canada, attending Evangel Bible College together, and were married in May 2000. Lisa graduated with her Bachelor's degree in Theology & Music Ministry in May 2003. 

They then began ministering in Haiti one to three times a year, bringing food and clothing to the poor, evangelizing, holding leaders’ and couples’ conferences, and visiting various churches. In July 2003 they started Haiti ARISE Ministries, investing their own savings into the first piece of land and building a team around them to help raise up godly leaders in Haiti. They live and work full time as Chief Executive Officer & International Directors of  Haiti ARISE Ministries overseeing operations, projects, and regularly traveling between Haiti, USA and Canada to grow the vision and share progress of the ministry, meet with the Haiti ARISE teams, and build relationship with the supporting churches, businesses, and individuals.

Marc and Lisa have five biological children: Asher, Miesha, Jasmine, Ariana and Austin, and an adopted son, Elensky (Kiki) from Haiti. The Honorats are dedicated to their calling to Haiti and raise their children to share in their heart to touch others' lives. As their children have grown up in the ministry, they too have been intimately involved in serving with the ministry and are seeking to pursue education to help them give back. 

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Haiti ARISE Ministries Society is a registered Canadian charity  & 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charity in the USA.

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