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!