Posts by Friends For Health In Haiti
GOODBYE TO OUR FRIEND AND COMPANION MOZIE
AUGUST 29, 2017 It is with sadness that we would like to let everyone know that our faithful dachshund Mozie passed away yesterday afternoon. He was 14 years old and lived a good life, so we can’t be too regretful. We brought Mozie and his father, Shubie, down to Haiti on a Missionary Flights International…
Read MoreTHE SUMMER HEAT NOTWITHSTANDING!
AUGUST 21, 2017 With its high heat and humidity, Haiti is not an ideal place to visit during the summer months. But, for the sake of our spiritual ministry, a hardy intergenerational group from Eastbrook Church in Milwaukee and Town North Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Richardson, TX sacrificed their comfort for a week of work…
Read MorePROMISES, PROMISES
AUGUST 7, 2017 After ten years of hearing that it was going to be fixed, we were thrilled a few months ago to see the beginning of construction on the road up to our clinic in Gatineau. Parts of it are being paved, and the rest is being graded with drainage ditches being built to…
Read MoreGETTING BACK TO BUSINESS IN OUR COMMUNITIES
JULY 23, 2017 In the months after the hurricane of October 2016, the staff of Centre de Sante de Gatineau has been busy distributing relief supplies and housing materials to people in communities around the clinic site. We have been assisted in our hurricane relief endeavors by the 24 Community Promoters who we had previously…
Read MoreANOTHER BUSY AVERA WEEK!
We have been blessed to have visits several times each year from our friends from the Avera Health system in South Dakota. This group of hospitals and clinics has a tremendous commitment to mission work in the world and we are blessed that they have chosen to partner with Friends for Health in Haiti as…
Read MoreCATCHING UP!
Cherlie and I spent a few weeks in April in the US, visiting with churches and family in the NY/NJ area and attending an annual fund-raising banquet and board meeting in Milwaukee. We visited lots of people and churches, did multiple presentations and enjoyed the comforts of life in the US! The banquet was very…
Read MoreA WELCOME VISIT FROM AVERA
Two or three times each year we are blessed to have visitors come assist us in our ministry from Avera Health, a large hospital system based in South Dakota. The teams are composed of both medical and non-medical personnel who all have a connection to Avera and a love for Haiti. They are led by…
Read MoreTHE LORD’S TIMING IS UNBELIEVABLE!
Several things happened to us at our clinic in Gatineau this past week that remind Cherlie and me that the Lord’s timing is quite amazing. Since the hurricane in October, we have made an effort to acquire donations of relief supplies to augment our service to the communities around the clinic. Our first priority, obviously, is…
Read MoreCOMEDY IN THE MIDST OF LIFE’S CHALLENGES
Every once in a while, I come across something in our clinic that makes me smile in spite of all the patient problems I listen to all day. Sometimes it’s seeing a child’s face light up as I present them with a gift of a toy car or a Beanie baby. Sometimes it’s a t-shirt…
Read MoreAMAZINGLY POSITIVE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES!!!
As you know if you’ve been reading our previous blogs, we began an ambitious home rebuilding project after the hurricane, to help people in the area around our clinic rebuild their destroyed or badly damaged houses. In the first stage of this project, we had our Community Coordinator, Gemi Baptiste, visit over 700 homes in…
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