Bishop Stenio Capre is the son of Marino Capre born and raised in Haiti.His father became an evangelical Christian believer in 1934, and he also became a preacher in 1936. He has preached for 66 years and died on April 9, 2003 at the age of 103 years old. Bishop Capre was born and raised in a Christian home. Married and has 3 daughters: Schiln born in 1974, Wilhelmine born in 1976 and Ketthsy born in 1978. Bishop Capre became a preacher in 1972. He received his pastoral ordination on January 1, 1976. He started a full time gospel ministry on January 8, 1978 with a small congregation of 25 people. Later God gave him a vision to plant 1000 churches in the island of Haiti. By 2013 he has already planted 300 churches with 40,000 members.

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In the Caribbean, southeast of Cuba, is the island of Haiti. Christopher Columbus discovered the island in 1492, is was named “Hispagnola”. The word Haiti means “a mountain country”. It is a good soil island in some places. The people cut all the trees down in the mountain area. The people have it very hard because of the drought condition and soil erosion. There are forests in the south and deserts in the northwest. Later Haiti became a French colony. To exploit the island, Frenchmen went to Africa and brought slaves and made good fortune out of the island, slave trading. The people (slaves) got together after two centuries on the night of August 14th. On the 15th of August 1791 they had a great voodoo ceremony and sacrificed a pig to the voodoo gods, and made a covenant with them. The slaves said to the voodoo gods if you set us free from slavery you will be our only gods to worship in the island for ever. Boukman, a voodoo houngan (witchdoctor) heads the first major black rebellion. This begins the markings of civil war between the black dominated north and the mulatto dominated south. The slaves defeated the French marking major difficulties in the social and spiritual standards of Haiti. Haiti has suffered much until 1999 when a group of Church leaders broke the voodoo curse at its source. Now the island is recovering with a new governing body that recognizes the social and spiritual needs of the country. A positive future is on the horizion for Haiti.