Haiti Trip Report July 4-11, 2015
We celebrated our freedom by traveling to Haiti for a Christian Medical Mission Trip July 4-11. We are not part nor represent any particular organization though we utilize the guest house of a partner organization that has done more sustainable relief in Haiti than any other organization I am aware of, The Apparent Project. The mixed group of medical and non-medical “humanitarians” and “missionaries” arrived though three different airplanes and joined 4 other team members that had arrived days earlier. We held 5 days of clinics. Two of the clinics were mobile clinics in remote villages; the “Naked Village” outside the town of Babaco and a village in an old growth mango grove in Dumay. Both villages are heavily influenced by voodoo and distant from any medical facility. The other three days of clinic were held in the guest house in Delmas 75. We ran an electronic medical record (fEMR) in the Delmas clinic and created patient ID cards to make follow up visits more efficient.
In all the team treated 550 patients from the rural villages, patients from neighboring towns, and the local community for a multitude of diseases including mumps, chicken pox, and mosquito borne illnesses.. There were many prayers prayed and 129 specific prayers also documented though every patient had the opportunity. Over 1220 prescriptions written to include eyeglasses, medications, and vitamins. Almost every patient received a deworming pill.
This is a sampling of the prayers:
-Sebalicia from mango tree village would like prayer for God to change his life. He is 22.
-Belance would like prayer for his sickness, for work and for his 3 daughters.
-Mariette would like prayer to have a house and for her two children who are trouble makers.
-Etienne from Beraqa Church would like prayer for Haiti to change.
-Sebalicia from mango tree village would like prayer for God to change his life. He is 22.
-Belance would like prayer for his sickness, for work and for his 3 daughters.
-Mariette would like prayer to have a house and for her two children who are trouble makers.
-Etienne from Beraqa Church would like prayer for Haiti to change.
Medications, supplies, and clothing were organized and donated to Child Hope, KKOTTONGNAE HAITI, and Children’s Lifeline
I learned a few lessons from my devotional Up Most For His Highest. John 16:33 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” The typical view of Christian life is that it means to be delivered from all adversity. But it actually means being delivered in adversity. God doesn’t give us overcoming life – He gives us life as we overcome. The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no life. John 5:30 Jesus said, “I do not seek my own but to do the will of the Father who sent me” The greatest thing for us to remember is that we go to fulfill God’s purpose, not our own. We have ambitions of our own in our natural life; we have no goals of our own in our Christian life.
Serving In God's Name 