Children at EBAC Christian Academy and Orphanage in Cap-Haitien, Haiti

EBAC Christian Academy • Cap-Haitien, Haiti

An orphanage in Haiti needs your help.

The crisis forced Alice and Kathy home after 48 years. The children are still there.

What EBAC Provides

Since 1977, EBAC Christian Academy and Orphanage has given children in Haiti a home, a family, and a future rooted in Christian faith. Here is what your gift supports.

Food

Two meals a day for every child. Hearts for the Hungry provides a daily feeding program on campus.

Housing

A safe home with dormitories on a protected campus in Morne Rouge, Cap-Haitien.

Education

Full English-language ACE Christian curriculum: English, math, Bible, history, and computers.

Clothing

Shoes, uniforms, and everyday wear. Children rely on missionaries for clothing and basic items.

“In the United States, I feel like kids grow up too fast, but in Haiti you can see a girl who’s 12 years old still playing with a doll. Boys playing with marbles at 12, 13 years old. Kids are kids, and they have fun being kids.”
Kathy Gouker

Haiti Is In Crisis. EBAC Is Still Standing.

Haiti is experiencing what the WFP calls the most underfunded crisis in the world. Food is scarce and very expensive. Gangs have forced thousands from their homes. As Alice and Kathy wrote: “Our friends put their lives in their own hands every time they leave the yard to go buy food.”

5.9M

Facing Hunger

40%+

Food Inflation

1.4M+

Displaced

242%

5-Year Inflation

Sources: UN OCHA, WFP, World Bank · Updated April 2026

WFP Haiti→UN OCHA Haiti→Mercy Corps→

Statistics last updated April 2026

Help Keep the Doors Open.

Your monthly gift goes directly to food, education, and care for the children at EBAC.

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Jul 1, 2025

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Apr 1, 2025

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The Story

How EBAC Began

In 1977, Alice Wise and Kathy Gouker arrived in Cap-Haitien alongside Pastor Cebien Alexis. Pastor Cebien had already planted over 200 churches starting with just $12 and 11 believers. Together they built EBAC, the Evangelical Baptist Army of Christ Christian Academy and Orphanage. Alice and Kathy gave 48 years of their lives running the school and caring for the children until the crisis forced them home.

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The Heart of EBAC

Alice Wise & Kathy Gouker

Alice and Kathy met as teenagers at Dunbar Baptist Church in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Both graduated from Bob Jones University with a calling to serve. They arrived in Haiti in January 1978 to find 27 children waiting and only a few mud huts on the property. Neither has children of their own. The children of EBAC became their family.

For 48 years, “Miss Alice” and “Miss Kathy” were mothers to hundreds of children. Alice directed music at Children’s Church. Kathy played electric keyboard. They taught, they served, they loved. Haiti’s crisis eventually forced them home, but they are still fighting for the children from the U.S.

“We don’t have to think that we have to solve all the problems of Haiti. We just have to do what we can do.”

Kathy Gouker

“It has always been our dream that the orphans would become missionaries wherever the Lord puts them.”

Alice Wise

The Founder

Pastor Cebien Alexis

At age 27, Cebien Alexis used his last $12 to rent a building and plant a church with 11 new believers. From that beginning, he built a ministry spanning over 200 churches, 85 schools, a university, and the EBAC orphanage. He calls his medical clinic waiting room “the preaching room” because he preaches the gospel to every patient before treating them, starting at 4:00 a.m. every morning.

When Haiti offered him the position of ambassador to Germany, he turned it down: “Why should I serve man when I can serve the King of kings?” His daughter Alexis and her husband Mike founded Olive Cove, Inc. in 2016 to formalize U.S.-based support for EBAC.

Proof It Works

Orphans Who Became Leaders

Six graduates of EBAC stayed in Haiti and built IDADEE, their own community development organization. A hospital. Schools. A farm. 200+ jobs. The education Alice and Kathy gave them became the foundation for everything they built.

Dr. Wislyn Avenard

EBAC Graduate → Physician

Medical Director of CHIDA Hospital. 9,614 patients in year one.

Remy Fils-Aime

EBAC Graduate → Visionary Leader

Founded IDADEE, now employing 200+ people across Haiti.

Pastor Jean Claude

EBAC Graduate → Church Planter

Pastors two churches and runs New Vision Children’s Home.

“The general idea of a lot of people who become successful in Haiti was to get educated and get out. And this group of individuals decided the only way they were going to make things better was to stay.”
Adam Wainwright, St. Louis Cardinals pitcher

A Ministry of Olive Cove

Hugs for Haiti is a fundraising initiative of Olive Cove, Inc., a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded by Pastor Cebien’s daughter Alexis and her husband Mike Swittel. Every donation is tax-deductible and 100% of designated funds go directly to EBAC.

Olive Cove also administers the R.E.A.C.H. program, providing uniforms, books, and daily lunches to students across 85 schools throughout Haiti.

EIN

81-3259700

Status

501(c)(3)

Transparency

Candid Gold Seal

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Location

Morne Rouge, Cap-Haitien, Haiti

EBAC sits on the outskirts of Cap-Haitien in northern Haiti, 20 minutes from the city center. Mission teams arrive by charter flight from Fort Pierce, Florida.

Region

Nord Department

Founded

1977

Campus

School, clinic, dormitories

Nearby

IDADEE, CHIDA Hospital

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