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The Story of EBAC

In 1977, two young American missionaries from Dunbar, Pennsylvania, Alice Wise and Kathy Gouker, arrived in Cap-Haitien alongside Haitian pastor Cebien Alexis. Together with Pastor Cebien Alexis, they built EBAC, the Evangelical Baptist Army of Christ Christian Academy and Orphanage. Pastor Cebien laid the foundation. Alice and Kathy gave 48 years of their lives running the school and caring for the children. The crisis in Haiti forced them to return to the U.S., but 95 children are still there, and the mission continues.

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. 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.