The January 2018 mission trip started with flight cancellations and a scramble to get everyone back on the same flight. We arrived a day late altering our plans to attend a church we had yet to visit and the luxury of time to unpack, sort supplies, and prepare for our first clinic.
Monday morning we set out early to Pastor Pierre’s church in the Kenscoff Mountains. We packed 3 totes of medications and supplies, 2 5 gallon water bottles, food, camping supplies, and personal bags.
Patients sometimes travel two days to get to the clinic site. The travel can take our teams 2-3 hours to get on site prior to even seeing a patient and we have to cut the day short in order to make it back home. We have left without being able to see everyone in the past. This trip was going to be different. We planned to see patients Monday, spend the night in the church, and then hold a second clinic Tuesday.
The team was able to see over 190 patients over the two days on the mountain. 4 accepted Christ. The experience was amazing. We left home with the temperature at 5 degrees Fahrenheit so the 50+ degrees felt great but our Haitian translators found it to be quite cold.
Wednesday and Thursday we held clinic in Delmas 31. We rounded our our patient total to 475 for the 4 days of clinic. 5 people accepted Christ in total. 1524+ prescriptions were filled.
The team was able to cover the cost of a mom in labor who had come to the clinic with hopes of having her baby their. She was sent to the closest woman’s hospital and her delivery became complicated. She may have died if she delivered at home. We learned that she delivered a baby girl the Sunday we departed. We were also able to help pay for 2 club foot surgeries and a young girl needing a growth removed from her nose.
Praise God for putting such a team together, the hundreds of prayers, the locals that enabled us to serve, the patients that accepted Christ, the ministries providing the medicines and gospel tools, and the Haitian people.
The next trip is scheduled for July!
Our thanks to Pastor Pierre and his church, Karen Bultje of Coram Deo and her extended Haitian family, Village Ministries, Fellowship Tract League, Brother’s Brother, Kingsway Charities, our donors, and our prayers warriors.
Serving In God's Name 
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