Our medical teams in Haiti have seen over 5,000 patients during trips since the 2010 earthquake. The Gospel has been presented to many personally or when they leave the pharmacy. All prescriptions are dispensed with a Creole Gospel tract or coin. Most recently, we began to catalog whether patients attend church, and if so, where. The teams are now also documenting prayer requests into the patients’ electronic medical records and on prayer cards which can be dispensed to prayer teams.
Health care is a markedly limited service in Haiti. We have witnessed clinics and other ministries closing to move to other locations, or dissolving completely. Opportunity has risen where others have failed. Properties are now available to create permanent clinic sites and recent trips have revealed patients are traveling long distances to seek basic care, presenting us with a unique situation.
God’s timing is not our own. What was planned to take place over the course of 5 years is coming together in less than one. A property was made available to us that will serve multiple needs, including a medical clinic. The clinic will take some time before it can be functional. The property can immediately be used to serve other purposes. The property has a large area suited perfectly for a church and children’s school. Ministry partners in Haiti hope to create a school for the poor children of the area that cannot afford to go to private school. The property also has rooms suitable for distance learning classrooms and Bible studies. Living space is available on the property for long term tenants.
Catalpa is the name of a neighborhood road within which the first Clinic & Urgent Care will be established. Catalpa is also a common tree in the warm temperate region of the Caribbean. It’s heart-shaped leaves symbolizes the love we wish to share with the Haitian people and as the large dark leaves provide shade and shelter to the birds from rain and wind we too seek to be a comfort to the community. Numerous small flat seeds are found within the long bean pods of the mature tree and each have two thin wings to aid in wind dispersal further symbolizing how the clinic will replicate many times over as it too comes to full maturity.
The mission of SIGN, Inc. is to ensure that every man, woman, and child will have repeated opportunities to hear and see the Gospel of Jesus Christ as we foster relationships in the communities and address physical needs. Every effort will be made to equip missionaries for works of service so that the body of Christ may be built up.
The initiative has been started to offer help to neighborhood organizations with their programs and join neighborhood Bible studies and prayer groups. We will be assessing the ministry needs of the community and seeking to put together short-term mission teams that are both medical and non-medical.
Monthly living expenses are high as is the operational budget of starting a low cost medical clinic.
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