As the 6 month post earthquake point passed we want to keep you, our ministry partners updated on what has happened and what is currently happening through the ministry of AFH. Immediately after the earthquake we provided oversight and staffing for the field hospital in the Petit Goave area, forty miles west of Port Au Prince. Thanks to your partnership we treated about 18,000 patients, delivered 160 babies and did many minor surgeries mostly under tents. We have now returned to our more “regular” work of remote medical clinics in the more needy mountainous regions.
Our plan of operation is going into areas recommended by Haitian pastors that we have known for several years where they have outreach ministry themselves. We carry our supplies by donkey and foot into the area and setup a clinic in the buildings they use for meetings and schools. In the evenings we have gospel meetings that are open to the public. These clinics open the doors with local pastors and elders for future in-depth Bible Schools for the local leaders. Training and teaching believers that can in turn teach their own people is our goal. Medicine, community health training, and nutritional supplement programs are used to open doors and build relationships that can be developed into Bible schools and pastor/elder training. The last few years have greatly increased our burden for solid, long term Bible teaching in Haiti. We have found very little being done that is really reaching the poorer local churches and their leaders outside the larger cities. The requests for teaching and training church leaders is repeated to me again and again. Recently a training session was planned with 100 men enrolled and 300 showed up. We provide the food and teaching materials for the attendees and they provide their own travel expense if possible. The cost to us is about $10.00 U.S. per day per attendee. Our goal is to repeat the training annually in each location.
Please pray for us that the church be taught and that Christ be glorified in our labors. We have also been able to send a permanent representative, Michael Rudolph, to Petit Goave to oversee the planning for the ongoing medical and teaching teams. Michael has also been involved as he has time in aiding construction teams for other organizations working in rebuilding. He lives in one room in the clinic building that we have been renting for the last 3 months. We are praying about a more permanent base nearby.
The next few months include teaching and preaching teams in August, November, and December led by myself as well as medical outreach teams in September, October and December. Please pray for wisdom, safety and more open doors. Thank you for your interest in the work in Haiti.
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