Mission: Haiti 2025

Dispatches: Hispaniola 2025

Gary Fallesen / Wednesday, October 29, 2025 0 106

A Climbing For Christ team was preparing to return to Hispaniola for the first time since 2013 to attend the medical school graduation of Kingdom worker and C4C New Generation (C4CNG) leader Gilbert Lindor in the Dominican Republic and conduct mobile medical clinics in the villages of Haiti where C4CNG oversees schools supported by Climbing For Christ. However, Hurricane Melissa postponed this trip for 12 days. Follow storm updates here.

Kevin Kimble

Gary Fallesen / Friday, June 27, 2025 0 46

Nationality: American. Occupation: Retired Machinist from Eastman Kodak Co. (33 years). Missions with C4C: Mexico 2007 and Haiti 2025.

How long have you climbed? I am a non-climbing member. Type of climbing you do: Stairs! Highlight of climbing career: N/A.

Mission Moments: Haiti

Grading the 2024-2025 school year and dreaming about the future

Gary Fallesen / Sunday, June 22, 2025 0 809

Climbing For Christ’s New Generation oversees three schools in mountain villages with Climbing For Christ support. Our Kingdom worker grades the 2024-2025 school year as children, who once had no school, dream of a better future.

Russell Yandura

Gary Fallesen / Tuesday, June 17, 2025 0 121

Nationality: USA. Occupation: Filmmaker. Missions with C4C: Haiti 2025.

How long have you climbed? Since 2019. Type of climbing you do: Experienced in distance backpacking, moderate ability on crags, willing to sling an ice axe. Highlight of climbing career: Pingora Peak, Wyoming.

Higher education

Gary Fallesen / Saturday, March 22, 2025 0 2940

Our first Mission: Haiti since 2013 is tentatively scheduled in late October. Our team will attend Gilbert Lindor’s (delayed) graduation from medical school at Universidad Tecnológica de Santiago (UTESA) in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. We will then conduct a medical mission in the Chaine de la Selle mountains of Haiti, Lord willing, or in Dominican camps for Haitians.

Gilbert Lindor

Gary Fallesen / Wednesday, December 13, 2023 0 1733

Nationality: Haitian. Dominican resident. Occupation: Medical school student and Kingdom worker of Climbing For Christ in Haiti; leader of C4C’s New Generation (C4CNG).

How long have you climbed? Grew up in the Chaine de la Selle range. Type of climbing you do: Hiking.

Andreas Moritz

Gary Fallesen / Monday, October 9, 2023 0 1281

Nationality: German. Occupation: Missionary. Missions with C4C: Malawi 2024, Nepal 2024, and Peru 2023 and 2025. How long have you climbed? Hiking I started in around 2010, climbing and mountaineering in 2014. Type of climbing you do: Bouldering, some crag sport climbing, some hiking, nowadays unfortunately nearly no mountaineering. Highlight of climbing career: Climbing Cotopaxi in Ecuador (5,897 meters) with a friend who is a guide, and leading teams up Sincholagua in Ecuador (4,899 meters).

Elaine Fallesen

Gary Fallesen / Friday, January 27, 2023 0 14650

Elaine Fallesen and a widow enjoying the moment in rural Malawi after taking a grand tour of her new home, one of more than three dozen homes for forgotten widows rebuilt through Climbing For Christ in 2017. Nationality: USA. Occupation: Women's and Family Ministry/Communications Director, Climbi...

Gary Fallesen

Gary Fallesen / Friday, January 27, 2023 0 45099

Nationality: American of Danish descent. Occupation: Missionary. Missions with C4C: Dominican Republic 2005; Haiti 2006, 2007 (twice), 2008, 2009 (twice), 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013; Indonesia 2007, 2010, 2012, 2017, 2018 and 2019; Kilimanjaro 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 201...

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