Compassion Fund/Disaster Response

November 11, 2025

Your help is still needed!

Hundreds of families are still in evacuation centers two weeks after Hurricane Melissa destroyed communities in the municipality of Guamá in Santiago de Cuba. Thousands of homes either collapsed or flooded as the category 4 storm unleashed 155 miles per hour winds and heavy rainfall. In the words of one of MTW’s contacts, “the housing situation in Cuba is already very precarious, so we currently have catastrophic damage across much of the country.”

Our friends are reaching out for assistance so they can provide immediate and long-term aid to those in Cuba suffering greatly. In the coming weeks, they are hoping to provide food, basic medicine and supplies for personal hygiene, mattresses and bedding, clothing, cookies equipment, and school supplies. They also already making plans to repair damaged houses and even help those whose homes are unsalvageable purchase new ones.

The needs in Haiti remain great as recovery after the hurricane only added to the instability and chaos. Compassion funds are helping our contacts in the region send non-perishable food and hygiene items to local churches in the southern peninsula for distribution in the community. They also plan to provide financial assistance to families most affected.

MTW missionaries and friends are asking for your continued support in these relief efforts. The needs are extensive and long term, and every donation makes a difference. Will you continue to help those Hurricane Melissa left homeless and hungry by giving to MTW’s Compassion Fund?

November 5, 2025 Update

Send food to the hungry victims of Hurricane Melissa.

Hunger grips poor communities in Haiti’s southern peninsula and in Holguín, Cuba, in the wake of Hurricane Melissa. Before the storm, people already faced food shortages, constant instability, and limited access to medical supplies. Now Melissa’s destruction made their struggle for daily food and survival even harder.

The storm devastated Haiti’s southern peninsula. MTW is channeling funds to trusted contacts in the region focused on food relief and distribution to those hardest hit. Hurricane Melissa also flooded the homes of many families that attend MTW’s partner church in Holguín, Cuba. Besides providing food for the community, Compassion funds will be used to repair the damaged houses.

Will you continue to help the victims of Hurricane Melissa by giving to MTW’s Compassion fund? Every gift provides real help as it empowers MTW missionaries and partners to show Christ’s compassion by providing food for the hungry, caring for the homeless, and sharing the gospel to the broken.

And please pray for the efficient and safe arrival of aid to the affected areas. Both countries’ poor infrastructure, magnified by the hurricane damage, can slow relief efforts. Thank you for your prayers, your generosity, and your heart for those in need. Thankfully, our missionaries and church in The Bahamas are safe and the damage there was much less severe than we were expecting.

October 30, 2025 Update

All of our missionaries and ministry partners are safe and working to help people recover in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Melissa.

On October 29, 2025, the storm’s center swept over southeastern Cuba, causing flooding in the streets and damage to buildings and homes. Holguin, a poor community in the region where one of our partner churches is located, is facing extensive storm damage and power outages.

Hurricane Melissa wreaked havoc in southern Haiti, causing severe flooding, landslides, and almost destroying the community of Jacmel. According to government reports, at least 24 people have died, 18 remain missing, and more than 500 homes have been flooded.

Thankfully, the storm strayed 200 miles south of MTW’s team in Nassau, The Bahamas. They are anticipating an influx of evacuees from the southern islands in the coming days and preparing to care for them.

MTW missionaries will direct relief funds to national partners and local churches so they can respond to the immediate needs such as supplying food, water, and shelter.

Thank you for praying and providing relief to the overwhelmed communities in the Caribbean.

October 29, 2025 Update

As Hurricane Melissa unleashes catastrophic winds and severe rainfall across the Caribbean, our MTW missionaries and partners in the region are positioned to aid affected communities—but they need your help.

In Haiti, the destruction will exacerbate an already devastating humanitarian crisis. According to MTW Haiti Missionary Esaie Etienne, more than half of the country’s population—5 million people—face food insecurity. Hurricane Melissa will only make the situation worse.

The Prime Minister of The Bahamas issued a mandatory evacuation for residents in six islands, many of whom are already refugees with nowhere to go. And the destruction from the hurricane in eastern Cuba will worsen the power shortages and the lack of food and medicine that the people have experienced this year.

Will you help those affected by Hurricane Melissa by praying and giving to MTW’s Compassion Fund? Your gifts will allow our missionaries to provide immediate supplies and food for those who have lost everything. Through your generous giving, they can show Christ’s compassion in the wake of Hurricane Melissa’s damage.  

Funds received by MTW as part of a disaster response appeal are used by our missionaries and national partners for relief and recovery, construction, travel for response teams, and related needs, as well as for longer-term rebuilding and church planting. Exceptionally, when there are unspent funds, they will be used in similar disaster and compassion situations.