Hello! My name is Katie. I am still a fairly new member to the team here at Ileg mission…( or so I feel at times) 😉 I arrived November 16th along with my brother James. I took Rachel’s place in the pharmacy and the regular bandage station and I expect to be in there for […]
Where do I start? My week has had a lot of ups and downs; hurts, joys, miracles and sorrows. Things I don’t know what to do with, but God does and that is what matters! Monday morning dawned early with a knock at the gate around 5:30am…. A lady in labor. And it’s my
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A warm hello from the mountains of Haiti! I am Sharon Swartzentruber, the newest member of the clinic team…(and still trying to figure out this blog thing). =) December 19thfound my plane landing in this beautiful country. December 20thwas the last day of clinic before the annual closure for cleaning and a short vacation….that day
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Greetings from the mountains of Haiti!! Many of you may wonder if we still exist. We do even though we have been very quiet. A little update on the past few weeks. We closed clinic December 20 and reopened January 9. It was wonderful to have a break from the daily clinic life and tackle
Hello everyone! It’s a great day to praise the Lord! I’m attempting to give you some snapshots from our week at the clinic. Only, this post is more than a week overdue (thanks to our poor internet service) so the pictures aren’t exactly ‘fresh off the press’. And, since I wasn’t overly inspired to write
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Little faces, innocent eyes, each one grasps your heart. The cry of a newborn…. the heartbreak of a mother as she releases her little one to the arms of Jesus…the distressed cry of a child unable to breath…. the fear in a mother’s eyes as she tries to wake her lethargic child burning up with
Letters joined make words, And words to books may grow, As flake on flake, descending, Forms an avalanche of snow. A single utterance may good Or evil thoughts inspire; One little spark, enkindled, May set a town on fire. What volumes may be written With little drops of ink! How small a leak, unnoticed, A
Clinic is back in progress after Hurricane Matthew passed through over two weeks ago. We still see and hear the affects everyday. As the weeks go by, more and more stories come out. My heart broke as a young girl sat at my desk telling me about her mother and baby sister’s death during the
“A hurricane is coming! It’s name is Matthew!”. Such was the neighborhood talk leading up to the storm this week. Everyone wondered if the blans (whites) knew just how bad this one would be and just when it would arrive. Walking to clinic on Monday morning, we wondered what our day was going to be
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