Hope Personified: Frances Maschal Landers: A Woman from Arkansas, a Priest from Haiti, a Generation Changed Through Education

Explorer Christopher Columbus discovered the tropical Caribbean island of Hispaniola in 1492. Its western third would become Haiti. After three hundred years of slavery and colonial rule, Haiti became the world’s first black republic. Over two hundred years later, Haiti’s children continue to search for hope as they grow up against a backdrop of poverty, unemployment, civil unrest, disease, disasters, hunger, and illiteracy.

At age sixty, Frances Landers took her first mission trip . . . to...