May 28-31, 2014
Bondye fe san di.
God acts and doesn’t talk.
We all gathered and prayed before heading to Despeezo for our final day. Mark Ostrander prayed for our clinic, the team and our Haitian patients.
The final day in Despeezo would consist of a medical clinic in the morning, followed by a crusade in the afternoon. We wanted to get the team back to Love A Child before it became too late.
When we pulled into the village, the crowd was much larger than the day before.
We learned that a village that was four hours away had heard about the clinic and they had brought their families for medical help. These people didn’t have dossiers and we were running out of time. We tried to pick the families that looked the most “in need” to see a medical professional. This was not easy and we had to maintain crowd control.
Carlos was there helping with crowd control.
We prayed once more and then we started seeing patients.
The sicknesses that we saw on the third day were more severe than the previous days.
This little lady was about three months pregnant and bleeding. She was in such pain and could hardly get around. Her son helped her get to the clinic. We gave her some money for transportation and sent her to a hospital for help. We were not equipped to handle a situation like hers.
This little lady came to us with a terribly swollen cheek area.
One of the Haitian doctors and Carole both felt like it was some sort of cancer.
We sent her to a hospital for a more thorough evaluation of her face and cheek area.
We turned around to find this mommie and her two children in great need.
The whites of her son’s eyes were yellow.
We feared he was suffering from hepatitis, and gave her some money to get him to the nearest hospital.
This next case left us all in tears. This little boy had a very bad infection on the top of his head.
We had the tools necessary to lance the area.
One of our Haitian doctors came to perform the procedure. He first injected some numbing medication.
He went right to work removing the infection from his head.
This area was very tender and the little boy cried and screamed.
We had to get the job done and we all tried to comfort the child as the medical team removed the infection.
Soon, the tears were gone and his head was all wrapped up and infection free.
This is just one example of the medical care that we provided. We had many patients come through the clinic.
Bobby and team members prayed for the people as they left for home.
We ran out of time to see every patient waiting, so we gathered many mothers and gave each one a Family Pack card.
I gave each mother a Family Pack full of medicines.
We call these bags of medicine Family Packs. It is a little pharmacy that has a variety of medicines that can be used to help with common ailments.
The mothers were happy and so were the children.
After we gave out the Family Packs, we went back to the clinic site and started breaking it down so we could get prepared for the afternoon crusade. One of the Haitian doctors started the crusade singing some songs.
The crowd started singing and praising too.
We had a special guest for the crusade. I introduced to them Fre Dodo, who was the former witch doctor to Haitian President “Papa Doc” Duvalier.
Fre Dodo talked about his time as a witch doctor, where everyone feared him.
He told of how he met a young woman who brought him to Christ and later he married her.
The crowd listened intently as he shared his testimony.
When Fre Dodo was finished, Reggie came over and closed the crusade with some singing.
We had noticed the local witch doctor sitting in his doorway while the crusade was going on.
While the crusade was coming to an end, Fre Dodo went over to talk to the village witch doctor.
The Despeezo witch doctor said that he was not evil. Fre Dodo told the witch doctor to follow Christ and to give up his evil ways.
The witch doctor didn’t come to Christ, but at least the seeds were planted.
This Mobile Medical Clinic in Despeezo was a great success. We treated 37 major wound care cases, distributed 91 pairs of eyeglasses, saw 707 patients, gave out 4,468 prescriptions, fed countless people, had 53 decisions to accept Christ and conducted a crusade right under the voodoo tree across from the witch doctor’s house.
We thank the volunteer team that worked with us during the clinic. We thank Mark and Evie Ostrander for all they did to make the clinic successful. We also thank Chris and Cassandra Baker, Carlos, Daniella, Durkje and Carole for jumping in and helping with whatever was needed. It was a great team effort and Bobby and I thank you all!
Love,
Sherry
P.S. Please pray about helping us take medical care to the regions beyond. You can sponsor an entire Mobile Medical Clinic for a gift of $1,000, you can deworm 300 children for a gift of $52, or you can sponsor a Family Pack of medicines for a gift of only $20. Please call our office at 239-210-6107 to find out how you can help.