Our Birthing Center…
It was really God that placed this dream in Bobby’s heart. So many pregnant mothers came to our Jesus Healing Center Clinic to see the doctor about sicknesses, but they ended up having their baby on the ground outside our gate, or right on the ground, before seeing the doctor!

But even then, we had no idea how many poor Haitian women were dying in childbirth, or immediately after… The problems are very complex… The mothers are in poor health and rarely have the opportunity to get to a clinic. When they do have their baby, many are in the mountains, and they use a local woman to deliver their baby, who isn’t even a mid-wife! Old superstition tales enter in… The ladies who deliver the babies give the mothers a “special tea” to make hard labor come. But, this “tea” increases their blood pressure, and burns their “birthing area” so badly, that they “swell” and cannot have the baby!

We have had mothers come to the gate delivering twins, with one of them having their umbilical cord “tied to the mother’s sandal” due to some superstition. You could not possibly conceive some of their superstitious beliefs, which affect their health and often kill their baby!

All women who want to have their baby in our Birthing Center must come each month for ultrasounds and check-ups. Many have high blood pressure, and many are anemic. Many will not be able to deliver here, so they will have to be sent by ambulance to the women’s hospital.

When they come, they must first go through our “Women’s Health and Teaching Class” each morning. Here, they learn “what not to do,” as well as “what to do.” We also encourage Birth Control, and this is the main subject that is taught every day!

Here is an astounding fact – since the day we opened in June, 520 babies have been delivered and 204 ambulance runs sending emergency cases to hospitals have been made!

We wish to thank the Lord first, all our partners who gave, the men who worked very hard on this project and also Pastor Mark, who was the brains behind it. Thank you, friends and partners! Bobby and Sherry