Update

Hello all!!
 Obviously I am not good at keeping a blog! The clinic is doing well. I have recently hired another nurse, to head up our community health program. We will be doing more education in the community. This past month we started a prental program. It was a success! We hope to have a lot more women this month! Each month we will need hygiene and baby items to give the mothers in the program, if any one would like to donate please contact me!!
 We are seeing more and more cases of HIV in our community, we are trying to educate, but it is a battle!! The patients don't believe you when you tell them they are positive, they say that it is not real, just a form of politics!!
 We are still in need of a washing machine!! Also need to complete our clinic compound wall, about half way there. Laboratory seems to be a never ending project! However, we know in His time all things are possible! Continue to keep this ministry in your prayers! We have a lot we would like to offer our patients, that is not a reality yet. They deserve the very best care! 
 Im still working on the art of attaching pictures, so there will not be any on this post, if I want to get it out tonight! 

                                                                      New Life!!





 Spent the day yesterday going to a seminar up in the mountains in a place called Oriani or Pine forest.. Seemed like we left haiti and went to another country. I have never seen such beauty in Haiti, it was freezing! I shivered all day long. It was a long 4 hr ride there, and then 4hrs back home. We had a good time, and appreciate the people of CAM who invited us.
 Jessica and I came home so tired, fell into bed around 10:30, to get a call at 11;00, one of our workers sister was in labor!!
 After waiting all night, a beautiful baby girl was born at 5:45 am.. After some much needed coffee, we are hoping to get a little nap today! Thankful that the Lord helped everything go smoothly! 

                                                         Beautiful Mountains Of Haiti

Happy Easter! We hope you all have had a good easter celebration! We had two people get baptized here during the easter service!
 Wanted to update you on the clinic washing machine project! We now have $350 towards the washing machine! We need a total of $850!!
 Please keep our patients in your prayers, we are seeing more and more cases of Hiv, Aids and TB. So many people are hurting. This week I was able to spend over 30 minutes witnessing with one of them.

March Mania!!

 

It has been a very week here in the clinic. We have had one accident right after the other. Friday night was spent suturing and cleaning wounds from a knife fight amongst young guys. All this week we have seen some really bad cases.

 It is the time of year that the "Ra Ra" celebrates, and unfortunatly we had a nice young man from our neighborhood, killed this week as a result of the ra ra. Please keep his family in your prayers.

 Please pray for "june" a young girl who came in this morning all banged up, with gas burns on her arms and leg, she was on a motorcyle yesterday with two other adults and a small child coming home from kindergarden, when a cement mixer, ran into them. The mixer chopped the small child up, instantly flipped the moto, the choffer and other adult died, "june" was the only survivor.

 We were able to talk to her today about the Lord and His grace in sparing her life.

 It is very dangerous here to ride motorcycles, but for most it is there only way of transportation. 

New Addition!!
 The Hess family has a new addition to its family. It weighs just a few ounces, is furry and chirps an awful lot! Emma found a stray baby chic and has adopted it as her own!. She is feeding it cornmeal and water, and keeping watch that the dogs dont devour it!

Busy, yet productive sunday!!
 We had 10 in our new convers class today, and had a young girl accept christ just after class. Her name is Rose, please keep her in your prayers.
 Had a wonderful service, and a young man was saved during the service.  Yesterday, I was able to lead my next door neighbor to the Lord.
 This week we have had 14 people accept Christ!! God is at work.  Tomorrow is Monday, back to the clinic!!

We have had a very very busy day, but very productive.  Seven people were saved in evangelism today! One of which was a patient of ours at the clinic. He has just had an operation in november. I had been witnessing to him in the clinic, but he had not made a decision yet. Today was His day of salvation! He accepted Christ as his saviour today! He is in his 70's, and right after getting saved informed us that he had a house about 1 hour from here in the mountains, where he went to conduct voodoo ceromonies. He asked that we go help him get rid of it all! After a busy day evangelism, we were tired, but would never let that opprotunity pass by! We loaded up, and drove the 1 hour up the mountain, to a small house out in the middle of nowhere, where he went to spend months on end, sacrificing to the devil. A place where his children had never even been!
 We arrived around 1:30 and it took until around 4 to completly take everything out of the house, and to burn it all! What a moment it was, to see this man so late in his life accept Jesus, and decide to take another road!  Please keep him in your prayers, the road ahead will not be easy, but our God is Faithful!!

 Dr Elysee  is a huge asset to our clinic team. He began working with us in April of 2012. He is our medical director and is helping greatly with the progress of our clinic. His house and practice were destroyed by the 2010 earthquake. Since then, he and his family have been renting a small house, but are now being asked to move out. They have no home to go to, and do not have the funds to rebuild there home that was destroyed by the earthquake.
 After the earthquake Dr Elysee helped hundreds of haitians that were very severe recieve vital operations. Organized and worked with american surgeons around the clock, doing his part to help his people. He is a "earthquake Hero". He sacrificed so much to help his patients, then and now. He will do anything to see that his patients recieve the best of care possible.
 As part of our HGM family, we are trying to do our part to help him rebuild his home. The clinic is trying to do its part to contribute to the rebuilding.  We ask if you have the possibilty to help with the rebuilding of his home, do so!! Many victims have recieved free homes, and yet here is one who is a faithful servant to his country, still in need!!
 If you are interested in contributing to "Elysee House Fund" please contact me- April at hessjoel@yahoo.com  or mail your contribution to Haiti Gospel Mission  ( Box 669, Grifton NC 28530)  or contribute on paypal.            

 Merry Belated Christmas and Happy Belated New Year From Haiti Gospel Mission Clinic!!
    
 The year 2012 was a good year for the clinic, a year for improvement, overcoming many obstacles, meeting many needs, and sharing the love of Christ to the community! To finish our year off we had a christmas party for all mission employees! We had a great time of fun and fellowship!
 We played a game of " decorating the tree's" Where the clinic workers decorated there tree ( Dr Elysee) and the school workers decorated one of the school teachers! Our tree one the prize!!
 Below you will find some pictures attached of our party, and our world class christmas tree!!

Ti Cheri

Meet "ti cheri", a little boy whom I just met this week. He was brought to my house on thursday night, someone had thrown a rock and hit him in the back of the head, and he needed stiches.
 We are calling him "little dear" because noone really knows his name. His mother abandonned him since he was just a small toddler, and he has been living in a little shack out in the weeds. A neighbor lady has always checked on him, and takes him food as she can. I just recently found out several other women from a local church take turns taking food out to him.
 I was told, he has nothing in the little shack, no clothes shoes, nothing. Apparently his mother is still around the neighborhood, but doesnt have anything to do with him.
 Here in haiti,  mentally handicapped children are seen as useless, and unwanted. He is severly malnurished, and can wear michaels 3t clothes( they think he is around 12 or 13).
 We had quite the adventure trying to get him to allow us to suture his wound. Joel sat in front of him and read to him the story of Jesus feeding the five thousand. He was excited and repeated some of the story! He had never worn shorts before, so it took a little coaxing to get him to put them on, then when he did, we told him how good he looked, He was so excited, began laughing and jumping up and down!!
 Today we were able to clean and dress the wound, and to get him on some vitamins and healthy shakes.  Since his "rock" incident the lady that had been taking food to him, has taken him in to her home to care for him!
 Pray that we can help her be a blessing to this "Little Dear".

Early morning Suprise!

 

 This past thursday arrived at the clinic around 8:45, to find this new baby waiting on me! She had been born at 7:30 in her home with her father attending the birth! She is a beautiful little girl, and we were very happy to meet her,  take care of her umbilical cord, bathe and dress her!  She is now a week old and adorable! 

   The clinic is functioning well, although we always see less patients during the summer months it seems. We have been seeing more positive cases of Aids recently. It has been a huge opportunity to council and pray with patients however,  we ask that you please pray for our clinic and its future.

 The clinic is such an influence on the community, but we are struggling to keep up with the demands of our patients, mainly due to the lack of funding. We want to provide quality health services to the community, but fall short of our budget every month.  We have big visions for the clinic, but are lacking in monthly support for it.

 We ask that you spread the word about the clinic, and if possible give towards the monthly budget!!

Urgent Need!!

We have four windows that need glass in them. They are allowing furry friends to enter into the clinic! Along with dust and rain. Each window will cost approxiamtly $80 us. The total for the four would be- $320. If anyone is interested in giving towards this project, please contact Sandra at sandrasc45@yahoo.com
Thank you for your support in the ministry of the clinic! 

Ti Madame Update

 Ti madame went home this past week. She threw all her exams away, when I asked her why, she said that the doctors told her there was nothing they could do for the cancer, She was in God's hands! She went home trusting that her great physician will heal her! Please keep her in your prayers.

Tiny Miracle!

Some of you may remember last year a baby being put in a sack of rice and being thrown away. Well, here she is a year later! She is growing like crazy, is healthy, cutting teeth and almost walking on her own! Anna Moriah is truly a tiny miracle! 

"Did she see your feet?"

We have several elderly patients that have Diabetes, and we seem to not be able to get control of it. I spend alot of time educating and talking with them. Just this past week we decided to give them all the same date to come, to make education easier.
 We have been giving nutritional advise, medication etc.. They are the sweetest and cutest people! Always joking and  always happy. I had been fussing at them all about there feet, protecting there feet and the reasons why. Thursday, we were  having "school," and the one was late coming in, I heard the other say, " Did she see your feet yet."? " Your in big trouble!"  :)
   I think we have resolved the "shoe" issue, now if we can just get the diet and meds down!! Please keep them in your prayers!!

Laboratory update

Laboratory

Half way There!!
We have completed the actual building! We are getting much closer to our goal. The laboratory turned out to be much larger than what we expected. We may have an empty room, where we can offer some other service to the people. Listed below is what we have left to do in our laboratory project.

1. Install sinks, toilets, shower
2. Install windows
3. Install counter tops, desk and chairs
4. Flooring
5. Painting
6. Laboratory Equipment
We would like to get into the new laboratory by the fall! Please help us pray that God will bless our efforts in this project. If you would like to donate towards the laboratory project. Please contact Sandra at sandrasc45@yahoo.com or April at hessapril73@yahoo.com .

Ti Madame

The patient that I wrote about last week that was going into surgery, was not able to operate. The surgeons said it was too advanced. They gave her 6months to a year to live.
 She is in alot of pain, and is obviously sad about the news. Please keep her in your prayers. She has such a good attitude and spirit about her.

Prayer

Please pray for a patient of ours that has Breast cancer, and will have surgery on thursday. She is very nervous about the surgery.