History

Pillatre is a small town located in northern Haiti, 12 miles from Cap Haitian. Like much of Haiti, it is an impoverished area lacking in basic food and medicine. In the late 1970’s Pastor Emmanuel Laguerre (Pastor Manno) came to the U.S. to attend Johnson Bible College in Knoxville, Tennessee. During his second year, his wife, Prisca, joined him. Three children, Patrick, Julie and Judith, were born while he was a student.

While in America Manno began gathering support for meeting the desperate needs in Haiti. As Manno returned to Pillatre in the mid-1980’s, he answered God’s calling and founded Haitian Christian Ministries to support the spiritual and physical needs of the people of northern Haiti.