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We believe the Gospel is lived out through both what we say and how we show up for people.
One MissionTwo NationsCountless Lives
Faith in Action.Love WithoutBorders.
Shaking the earth with the life-changing power and love of Jesus Christ.
01Our Mission
Meeting Spiritual Needs.Meeting Physical Needs.Loving the Whole Person.
Since 2003
Church Quake International was founded on the belief that sharing the love of Jesus Christ means caring for the whole person.
Mission FieldHaiti
Meet Real Needs
Feed. Care. Protect. Heal. Stand beside people when they need someone to show up.
Build Stronger Futures
Education, skills, opportunity, and long-term support can help create a path beyond survival.
Appalachia / West Virginia
The mission field can be across the world— or in our own backyard.
Church Quake also serves communities in Appalachia through outreach that provides food, clothing, personal care items, household necessities, meals, and practical support.
United StatesAppalachia
Love GodLove PeopleMeet NeedsShare JesusChange Lives
Discover Our Story02Where We Serve
One Mission / Two Nations
From the Mountains of
Appalachiato the communities ofHaiti.
United StatesAppalachia
CaribbeanHaiti
01International Mission
Haiti
Care for vulnerable children. Education. Health. Community. Stronger futures.
Children & EducationMedical OutreachCommunity DevelopmentAgriculture & Sustainability
Explore Haiti02United States Mission
Appalachia
Showing up consistently with food, clothing, necessities, meals, and practical support.
Community OutreachFood & EssentialsClothing & Personal CarePractical Support
Explore AppalachiaLove God.Love People.Meet Needs.Share Jesus.
03The Children
PestelHaiti
The Children's Home
More Than a Home.A Family.
The children's home began in 2017 to create something every child deserves: a safe place to sleep, regular meals, people who care, access to education, and the freedom to imagine a future.
Care that reaches beyond today.
Established2017
A place to belong.A future to believe in.
What Care Means
Caring for the whole child.
The goal is not simply to meet an immediate need. It is to create an environment where children can grow physically, emotionally, spiritually, and academically.
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A Safe Home
A place where children can feel protected, loved, valued, and know that they belong.
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Food & Nutrition
Regular meals and nutritional support that help children grow, learn, and thrive.
03
Education
School tuition, uniforms, books, backpacks, notebooks, supplies, and the opportunity to learn.
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Health & Wellness
Access to healthcare, hygiene needs, and practical support for healthy development.
You Are Loved.You Are Valuable.You Have a Purpose.Your Story Is Not Over.
We are not simply caring for children today. We are investing in who they can become tomorrow.
Explore the Children's Home04Current Needs
Where Help Matters NowPut Faith Into Action
What Can I HelpWith Right Now?
Every need represents something tangible: a meal, a school uniform, a book, healthcare, a safer place to live, or a skill that can help someone build a stronger future.
Current priorities should be confirmed and updated by Church Quake staff.01
Education
School tuition, uniforms, books, backpacks, notebooks, and classroom supplies remain ongoing needs.
02
Food & Nutrition
Support helps provide regular meals and nutritional care for children and, when possible, vulnerable neighbors.
03
Health & Wellness
Healthcare, hygiene supplies, and essential wellness needs are part of caring for the whole child.
04
Home & Facilities
Ongoing facility needs help create safer, more functional spaces for children, staff, and ministry work.
05
Future Opportunity
Vocational training, agriculture, and life-skills initiatives can help create pathways toward independence.
Give Where It's Needed Most
One Gift Can BecomeSomething Real.
Help Church Quake respond to the needs that matter most in the moment.
Support the Mission05Real Impact
Education / Long-Term CommitmentThis Is What Long-Term Commitment Looks Like
From No OpportunityTo a Future in Motion.
One child entered the children's home at approximately six years old in 2017 and had reportedly never had the opportunity to attend school.
Education Creates OpportunityPestel / Haiti
Years of Support
Progress happens when people stay.
Through years of care, the child received education, regular hot meals, a safe place to call home, and people who believed in what could come next.
That journey later reached the milestone of Haiti's official ninth-grade national examination.
A Safe Place
A home, consistent meals, and people committed to showing up.
An Education
The opportunity to attend school, learn, grow, and keep moving forward.
A New Milestone
Years later, progress reached Haiti’s official ninth-grade national examination.
Why We Stay
Read More StoriesA child who once had no opportunitycan grow into possibility.
06Building Futures
Skills / Opportunity / IndependenceFrom Surviving to Thriving
We're Not JustMeeting Needs.
The long-term vision is empowerment: helping children and young people move from care and education into practical skills, opportunity, independence, and the ability to strengthen their own communities.
Our goal is not dependency.Our goal is empowerment.01
Safe Home
Care, protection, nutrition, healthcare, and stability.
02
Education
Learning creates opportunity and opens new possibilities.
03
Skills
Practical training helps turn potential into real capability.
04
Opportunity
Skills can create pathways toward work, income, and independence.
Practical SkillsFuture Opportunity
Skills in ActionExplore Skills & Training
Opportunity grows when people have tools to build with.
Long-term vocational and life-skills opportunities may include sewing, carpentry, electrical work, plumbing, mechanics, masonry, agriculture, accounting, entrepreneurship, and other practical skills.
Sewing
Carpentry
Trades
Agriculture
Safe HomeEducationSkillsOpportunityIndependence
07Agriculture
Sustainability / Community ResilienceBuilding Beyond Relief
Plant Today.Strengthen Tomorrow.
Church Quake's vision in Haiti is not only immediate care. Agriculture and sustainability can help create stronger long-term foundations for food, opportunity, and community development.
HaitiGrow What Lasts.
Sustainability
Help create systems that can keep serving people.
Agriculture can support nutrition, practical training, local development, and long-term resilience while creating opportunities for communities to build with the resources around them.
Explore Agriculture01
Grow
Support opportunities that help communities strengthen access to food and practical resources.
02
Sustain
Encourage systems that can continue producing value beyond a single moment of relief.
03
Provide
Food, water, land, and practical infrastructure can help create healthier foundations.
04
Empower
Agriculture can become both a source of nourishment and a pathway toward greater independence.
FoodSkillsResourcesStronger Communities
08Medical Outreach
Care / Community Health / HaitiBringing Care to Communities
Care Should ReachWhere the Need Is.
Medical outreach has been an important part of Church Quake's work in Haiti, reaching communities where children and families may have limited access to healthcare.
Community HealthCare in the Field
Whole-Person Ministry
Meeting physical needs is part of showing people they are not forgotten.
Medical professionals and mission members have worked with local support to help children and families receive care in communities where access may otherwise be difficult.
Faith expressed through care.
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Medical Care
Qualified medical professionals can help bring care into communities where access may be limited.
02
Community Reach
The work can extend beyond the children’s home to neighboring children and families when resources allow.
03
Local Support
Medical teams work alongside local support, including translators, to help people receive appropriate care.
Qualified Medical Partnerships
Explore Medical PartnershipsYour skills can become part of the mission.
Doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, dentists, pharmacists, and other licensed healthcare professionals can express interest in future qualified partnership opportunities.
09Appalachia
West Virginia / Practical OutreachLove Without Borders
The Mission ReachesHome, Too.
Church Quake's mission also reaches communities in Appalachia, where practical support can meet people in difficult seasons with care, dignity, and consistency.
Appalachian Outreach
Sometimes ministry looks like simply showing up.
Food, clothing, personal care items, household necessities, meals, essentials, and transportation assistance can become meaningful expressions of care when people need practical help.
Meet the need.Love the person.
Explore Appalachia
United StatesAppalachia
01
Food Support
Meals and food assistance can help meet immediate needs for individuals and families.
02
Clothing & Care
Clothing, personal care items, and household necessities can provide practical dignity and support.
03
Essential Resources
Transportation assistance and other basic resources can help people navigate difficult seasons.
04
Showing Up
At the center of the outreach is a simple commitment: be present, meet real needs, and love people well.
HaitiOne MissionAppalachia
10Our Story
Founded June 5, 2003More Than Two Decades of Ministry
Built on Faith.Rooted in Love.
Church Quake International began with a calling to share the Gospel while responding to the real, physical needs of people.
That whole-person approach still shapes the mission today.
Church Quake LegacyDon Burkhalter&Abbie
The Beginning
A ministry built around the whole person.
On June 5, 2003, Pastors Don Burkhalter and Tom Akins founded Church Quake International.
The vision was never limited to words alone. Sharing Jesus and meeting practical needs were meant to work together — loving people spiritually, physically, and personally.
Faith that can be seen in the way people are loved.
Read Our Full Story2003
Church Quake Begins
Church Quake International was founded by Pastors Don Burkhalter and Tom Akins with a conviction to meet both spiritual and physical needs.
2017
A Home for Children
The children’s home in Haiti became a place of safety, meals, education, care, discipleship, and belonging.
Today
The Mission Continues
The work continues across Haiti and Appalachia through care, outreach, education, medical support, practical needs, and long-term opportunity.
The Mission Has Grown
But the hearthas never changed.
Love GodLove PeopleMeet NeedsShare Jesus
11Get Involved
There Is a Place for YouFind Your Place
You Don't Have toDo Everything.
You only have to decide where your faith, resources, experience, or heart can become part of the mission.
Pray. Give. Sponsor. Serve. Partner.01
Pray
Stand with Church Quake in prayer for the children, families, communities, leaders, and ministry partners being served.
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Give
Help meet practical needs and support the ongoing work of Church Quake International.
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Sponsor
Help create ongoing care, education, nutrition, opportunity, and stability through sponsorship.
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Serve
Use your time, experience, profession, or practical skills to help strengthen the mission.
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Partner
Churches, organizations, businesses, professionals, and supporters can help expand what is possible together.
One Mission. Many Roles.
Find the place whereyou can make a difference.
12Partnerships
Together, We Can Do MorePartner With Church Quake
You Don't Have toDo It Alone.
Church Quake was never meant to be the work of one person, one family, or one organization. The mission grows when people bring what they have and work together.
You don't have to do everythingto do something.01
Churches
Church partners can support ongoing needs, sponsorship, meals, outreach, prayer, supplies, and qualified service.
02
Businesses
Businesses can support projects, donate services or goods, organize campaigns, and help fund urgent or long-term needs.
03
Medical
Qualified healthcare professionals and organizations can contribute expertise, resources, and future medical support.
04
Education
Educators and education partners can help with resources, curriculum guidance, training, technology, and classroom needs.
05
Skills & Trades
Construction, agriculture, mechanics, technology, business development, and other practical skills can become part of the mission.
The Church Quake Partner Family
Become a Monthly PartnerConsistent support createsgreater stability.
Monthly partners can help strengthen ongoing care, planning, outreach, education, and the ability to respond when verified needs arise.
Transparency & Trust
Stewardship should beclear.
A mission built on trust should communicate carefully, protect the people it serves, and be clear about what is active now versus what is still being developed.
Learn About TransparencyVerified Information
Statistics, costs, fundraising totals, and project figures should be confirmed before publication.
Safeguarding First
Child sponsorship, stories, and communication should protect privacy, dignity, consent, and personal information.
Clear Program Status
Current programs should remain clearly separated from proposed projects and future vision.
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Church Quake InternationalFaith in Action
The Mission Continues
The StoryIsn't Finished.
There are children still waiting for opportunity. Families still needing hope. Communities still needing someone willing to show up.
And there is still more work to do.
You can be part ofwhat God does next.
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