About the Missionaries

Tina Isenhower has been a missionary to Haiti for the past 26 years. Tina grew up in Arcadia, IN and attended Johnson Bible College. After graduating she moved to Haiti. The first 5 years she spent learning the culture, language and building relationships with the Haitians and other missionaries. For the last 21 years she has been rooted in the village of Cyvadier, just outside the southern city of Jacmel. She is the founder and sole missionary to Haiti for Damou Christian Mission. During this time, she has grown from a two room 20 student school to a 4-story 860 student school. The school employs up to 75 people during the school year and each student receives one meal a day. The church started with 10 people meeting under 4 poles and a grass roof. Today, an average of 500 people worship God on any given Sunday, including Bible studies and other study groups that meet almost every day of the week in a church located on school property. Tina started a feeding program for elderly people that have no way of caring for themselves. Another ministry is the “The Village of Hope” which is an assisted living care facility for five elderly people with various handicaps. In 2008 and 2009, the island was hit with four hurricanes/tropical storms; during this time Damou was raised more than $100,000 dollars to help repair, rebuild, refurnish, and feed those devastated by the floods from the storms. Because Tina is the only paid staff member, Damou uses more than 85% of our funds to directly invest in Haiti and the mission and we strive each year to make ourselves more efficient so more funds go directly to the people of Haiti.

Charles Heinold is Tina Isenhower’s brother-in-law and currently the forwarding agent. Chuck is working hard to become more involved with the mission. Chuck is stateside and is responsible for fund raising and managing funds. Many times Tina has asked her sister, Donna, and Chuck to join the mission with her, but they always found reasons not to. Over the past three years, things have changed and Chuck has taken over the position of forwarding agent. His goal is to become more hands-on in his role. Chuck is currently raising his own support and continues to look for more supporters so he can be more involved with the mission in Haiti.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact Charles Heinold via email or call me at 317-691-7792. If you would like to be added to our mailing list or sponsor the mission, please send correspondence to:

Damou Christian Mission Inc
Attention Charles Heinold
2514 Countryside Drive
Lebanon, IN 46052

About the Ministry

The school and church are the center of activity for Damou Christian Mission. In place right now are a preschool and elementary school building, a high school building, and an office for the school administration. We recently completed construction of a new bakery, kitchen, and cafeteria. We have plans to build a vocational school in the future.

Damou Staff

These are the people behind the scenes that make all of the good work that we do possible.

Tina Isenhower, Missionary in Haiti
Jacmel, Haiti

Chuck Heinold, Missionary/Forwarding Agent
Lebanon, Indiana

Mark Brown, Board Member
Arcadia, Indiana

Dave Neal, Board Member
Michigantown, Indiana

Donna Heinold, Newsletter
Lebanon, Indiana

Matt Wallace & Doug Harrold, Website Maintenaince
Arcadia, Indiana