Haiti Mission Trip 2010
Christ Episcopal Church, Springfield, MO sponsored a mission trip to Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, January 2-8, 2010. We did a combination medical/construction mission.
We worked with Father Frits Valdema, (Pere Val) and his wife Carmel. Carmel is a nurse. Christ church has been working with them since 1997 after our first mission trip to Haiti.
Dr. Charles Dunn and our Haitian doctor, Dr. Edwick, conducted 3.5 medical clinics during our trip. They saw 520 patients. This included a nutrition clinic where 125 severely malnourished children were seen. Each child receives Plumpy-nut or Akameal as supplements.
We started building a nutrition clinic and a wall around the clinic. The wall and first floor of the clinic were destroyed in the earthquake. We praise God our friends Pere Val and Carmel are alive and well.
One important thing happened to me on this trip. God spoke to me very much during my stay but one day I just realized that I can not do everything but I can do something. I asked God what I was to do on this trip. I ended up fitting people with glasses so they could read and sew, I saw about 100-150 people for glasses. I remembered our motto and perhaps for the first time understood it.
The photos above are:
· Marilyn and baby on January 4, 2010 at St. Marc’s Episcopal Church doing a medical mission. This is just outside Port-au-Prince and was partially destroyed.
· Two Haitian children at St. Sacrament Episcopal Church in the mountains on January 5, 2010, this was a medical mission.
· A father giving Tylenol to his daughter after a surgical procedure on the top of her head. Medical mission on Crochu in an Assembly of God Church
-Marilyn Vinson McAfee RNC, BSN
Croix-des-Bouquets is only 12 miles from Port-au-Prince. See map below.
