On the streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, "tap-tap" drivers entice passengers with the sounds of traditional Haitian-Creole music. From the seats of these Haitian taxis to the fields of rural Haiti, traditional rhythms ring out.

In the midst of Haiti's volatile political climate, Haitians' love for indigenous music remains constant.

"Music is central to every part of their culture," says Dawn Goodwin, International Mission Board missionary. "There's no place you can go to escape it."

Recognizing the essential role of music in Haitian culture, Goodwin and her colleagues are using traditional rhythms to teach chronological Bible stories. Since 2003, IMB missionaries and national believers have worked together to record a series of 40 Bible songs. Even though rising political hostilities forced believers to stop recording the music in 2003, the tensions in Port-au-Prince haven't drowned out the sound of Bible songs on the public transportation system today.

One way to spread the Gospel even farther than missionaries can take it is to give it to Christian drivers who will play the cassettes in their vehicles, explains Mark Rutledge, IMB missionary. "The music sounds very much like music they're familiar with," Rutledge said, "but the words are God's Word."

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• Pray God will open doors for missionaries and national believers to resume recording Bible-storying songs.

• As the people of Haiti face political tensions and instability in their homeland, pray they will find security in Christ.

• Haiti's main religion is voodoo, but praise God that He's bringing even some voodoo priests and their families to faith in Christ. Ask the Holy Spirit the use their testimonies to draw many others to the Savior.

• Thank God for Haitian believers who are learning "chronological Bible storying," a way to share the Gospel through oral Bible stories. Weekly, trainees in northern Haiti "story" God's Word to more than 400 people. Pray many Haitians will accept Christ through this effort.

• Pray for a new storying group that meets each Wednesday morning in a rural area in Haiti. After Haitian storytellers shared the first Bible story there, six of 25 people attending accepted Christ. One of the new converts was a voodoo priestess who had earlier thwarted evangelistic outreach in this area. Pray she will become a strong witness for Christ.

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