Pastor Jarman Esperance
Executive Director, Christian Haitian Outreach, Haiti

Jarman Esperance was born in Haiti in 1954 and raised in a Christian home. He accepted the Lord at the age of 12 and received his early education from missionary – sponsored schools. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1976 and then married his beautiful wife, Mary, in 1979. By 1985, he graduated from Berean School of the Bible, Springfield, Missouri with a Diploma in Ministerial Studies and was ordained by the Assemblies of God in 1991. Pastor Esperance graduated Cum Laude from Tampa College, receiving a B.A. in 1991 and an M.B.A. in 1993.

Pastor Esperance served as Associate pastor of the Chardon Assembly of God church in Chardon, Ohio for about one year; as Pastor and Founder of Holiness Church of God in Painesville, Ohio for 2 years, and then as Pastor and Founder of Pinellas Christian center in St. Petersburg, Florida for 5 years. Then the Lord laid the burden on Pastor Esperance’s heart to return to Haiti as a missionary with a mandate to rebuild the spiritual wall of Haiti. This mandate was to be implemented by opening Bible schools to train leaders, planting new churches, building orphanages and schools to raise up a new generation for Christ and offer Christian education to them.

Pastor Esperance and his wife were approved as Assemblies of God missionaries to Haiti in 1993. They traveled through the U.S. to raise funds needed for ministry and then moved to Haiti in 1995 where they worked until 2004. Through the years, the Esperance worked to establish extension Bible school centers around the Country. They distributed clothes to the poor and coordinated projects to build churches. They addressed the increasing AIDS problems in many schools and churches in Haiti by educating youth on the disease through literature distribution. The Esperances founded a Christian school in Chalon, Haiti in 1997 with an attendance now of 650 children. They pastured a church of 450 people in the same area. Pastor Esperance is the author of The Twelve Spiritual Stones. He also served as General Superintendent of the Assemblies of God in Haiti from 1998 until he returned to the U.S. in 2004.

Upon returning to the U.S., Pastor Esperance accepted the invitation to serve as cultural liaison for the New Jersey District Council of the Assemblies of God. During his tenure, he trained several Haitian pastors for credentialing. In 2005 he was elected president of the newly formed Haitian American Fellowship of the Assemblies of God and served in that capacity until his recent appointment with Christian Haitian Outreach, Inc.