Among these are Maxine Stump and Betty Wooten, who have done productive work in Pétion-ville and Thomassin.

Betty Wooten started “pioneering” the day she got baptized in 1962. She did not realize that she should submit an application! She was actually appointed in 1967. Since coming to Haiti, she has served in Pétion-ville as a special pioneer. She is black, exuberant, and looks much younger than her 57 years. Sometimes in the intensity of explaining the Scriptures, she slips out of her imperfect Creole into English. But her sincere presentation of the truth and her forceful reasoning make people listen and respond.

While John and Inez Norman were visiting the Canada branch office in 1982, someone in the subscription department asked them, “Who is Betty Wooten?” The department was processing dozens of magazine subscriptions that she had obtained. Why this success? She is always preaching. Her formal field service is an extension of her informal witnessing. In shops, when she goes to a restaurant, at gas stations​—anywhere, anytime is an opportunity to offer magazines, books, subscriptions, and Bible studies. She can now look back over her 22 years in Haiti, satisfied that she has shared in helping more than 70 people to take up Jehovah’s service!

There are now four congregations in Pétion-ville, two in Thomassin, and another in Kenscoff​—seven congregations with a total approaching 700 publishers in 1993, in territory formerly cared for by one congregation.