Dr. Paul Cross – Haiti
I just wanted to let everyone know that I will be traveling to Haiti tomorrow morning with a medical team (3 surgeons, 2 anesthesiologists, and 1 nurse). This was pretty last minute, and the details are still coming in. We will be flying into the Dominican Republic and then to Leogane (epicenter of the quake) by prop plane. There are very few medical supplies and fewer anesthesia supplies. This is not a Christian mission team, so please pray that God’s love would apparent in me, and my team will see that. Other prayer...
read moreJeff Leathersich – Update
Tuesday evening after returning form the IDP camp, I heard from our hospital/clinic team that they had seen a baby that was profoundly dehydrated and malnourished to the point that his skin was sloughing off. They had spent hours resuscitating him and when our team had to leave they hoped he would survive the night, that evening we attempted to make contact with a pediatric hospital or the USS Comfort but all of our efforts failed as we could not get through to anybody. It had occurred to me that a dear friend of mine had just arrived in the...
read moreJeff Leathersich – Update
Days before we departed to Haiti I saw a national news report of a medical team that flew down just after the earthquake, while they originally intended to stay longer they were melting down emotionally after 5 days. One of them was sobbing while being interviewed she said they could not take it anymore, the need was too great, the devastation was too widespread and the supplies were too few. I did not judge them for leaving but said to myself that they must not have been prepared physically or emotionally. Having traveled to Africa, Indian,...
read moreJeff Leathersich – Update
It is 4:30 in the morning here in Haiti and we leave soon for our days work. Our team of 12, 5 from Rochester and 7 from Indiana are splitting up today. I will take 4 of us to a refugee camp that has been set up but yet has medical care. The others will go to our clinic/hospital were we saw between 250-300 patients yesterday. Antibiotics and wound care are most of what will do at the refugee camp. If we find people too sick for the camp, like they need IV fluids or IV antibiotics for a while, we will take them back to our hospital unless they...
read moreDr. Mark Brown – Haiti
Local doctor talks about time spent in Haiti after earthquakeWHEC-TV – A local doctor told News 10 how he was able to help the relief effort in Haiti. Doctor Mark Brown spent several days treating patients in Port-au-Prince, and he says Haiti now looks like a war zone.Doctor Brown went to the Dominican Republic, for a ceremony at a health clinic that he opened years ago. But when he saw how great the need was in Haiti, he and several other doctors knew they had to help. So they hopped in a small pick up truck and drove five hours to Port au...
read moreJeff Leathersich – Update
We arrived in Port-au-Prince at the US Embassy at 9:00 AM Saturday after a 10-hour bus ride from Santo Domingo. We went right to work setting up a field hospital at a school, I say hospital because we are prepared run 24/7 with inpatient beds. We have 8 emergency beds, can do about 10 inpatient, and there are two surgeons coming next week.The house we are staying at experienced minor damage, you can see cracks in the walls; other houses around us were destroyed. The house we are staying at and the ministry we are working with is called...
read moreBreakfast Energizes Members
Dr. Jeff Harp has been traveling with with an international medical team to Haiti every 18 months for the past 2 decades, doing community building through a church and orphanage in Port-au-Prince. After speaking to the 45 MCCF members who attended this morning’s annual Missions Breakfast about their experiences, the current crisis in Haiti, and relief efforts underway, several of our members are becoming energized to become personally involved.Dr. Harp and his wife Ellen will be flying with Lynx Air into Cape Haitian on the north coast...
read moreHaiti contributions deductible
Haiti contributions deductible for 2009 taxesNEW YORK (CNN) – The Senate unanimously passed legislation Thursday that will allow taxpayers to deduct cash donations to Haiti earthquake relief on their 2009 tax returns instead of having to wait to file the claims next year. Leaders of the House Ways and Means Committee from both parties introduced a bill Tuesday that makes contributions made between Jan. 12 and Feb. 28 count toward an individual’s or family’s 2009 taxes. The House unanimously approved the measure Wednesday. The...
read moreJeff Leathersich – Elim Fellowship
Tomorrow I will be leaving on a medical team to Haiti organized by Dr. John Seaman and others. We have $5,000 in medical supplies that we are taking down with us so I am asking you to stand with me and Elim Fellowship in this work. We will be working at a clinic as there are still thousands without access to medical care and disease is setting in now. The Lord has also spoken to me this last Sunday that he wants me to go to Haiti so I can prophesy to the nation. I am asking you my friends to stand with me and please be prepared to bring a...
read moreDr. Seaman – Hope Extended
We have our first team of four – 1 MD, 2 PA’s and 1 RN – leaving for Haiti this Friday, first going to Santo Domingo where they will join another group and share a van to Haiti. We appreciate the tremendous outpouring of encouragement, prayer and gifts. You are such a blessing to us and will help us bring some hope to one of the darkest places on earth.Our second team will leave sometime next week. I expect to go on this team. One of my goals is to try and discover a reliable route in and out of Haiti that subsequent teams can take. Please...
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