Birthing center update

We're very excited about the birthing center progress that is happening! 

It feels like a huge step of faith to begin building when we don't have near all of the funds needed to finish but we believe God will provide as he has done countless times in the past. Here is an aerial photo that shows what's happening! The footers are nearly finished and Lord willing, a team from the states is coming in June to pour the floor. 

Here, you see how much money we have to work with at this point. If you feel led to donate, it would be very much appreciated! You can send funds via PayPal HERE or if you prefer, you can send it thru Cashapp using the cashtag $GospeltoHaiti. 

If you prefer to send it some other way, feel free to contact us. 

Be sure to specify that the funds are for the birthing center building project! 

Thanks so much! 

In the previous blog post, we talked about St. Luke, our friend who recently got his left leg amputated. Please continue to pray for healing for him and also that he'd be able to get a prosthetic leg as soon as possible! He still needs about $1,200 to pay for everything. Please consider helping him out! If you choose to do so, please specify that your donation is for St. Lukes amputation. 

Again, thanks a LOT! Your donations matter and we truly couldn't function without them! 

-Mis Emma 

Update from Mis Marcile

And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. 2 Cor.12:9

God is so faithful... this verse has been my favorite go to verse this month. This month It literally felt like God was giving me more than I could handle but over and over he showed himself faithful. In the previous post Gloria shared some about what we have been seeing and experiencing. But thankfully things have slowed down and we have been able to get out a little bit more. Today we went out to visit one of our blood pressure/blood sugar patients. He had been coming to the clinic monthly for meds but because he got sicker he's not been coming. So we went to visit him and found a very sick man. We quickly realized he was in bad shape and told them to get a cot and bring him to clinic. He is now under the care of our doctor.

An update on our burn guy... on day 6 of his stay here in the hospital room and having his bandage changed twice a day, he made a turn for the worse... we discussed his situation with the family and told them we need to transport to a bigger hospital. But the family refused. They begged us to take him home to die. We prayed and discussed our options. We felt peace about taking him home and the next day he died. 

This is difficult as we do everything we can to help our patients and sometimes the family refuses to take our advice on the situation and we are left with one choice... to respect the family.

Some of Gloria's family and 2 of Verlin's friends came for a visit. We had a really good time with them here. They helped with alot of jobs around the compound and also at clinic. On Saturday we hiked up to Fort Gary.

Thanks so much for praying for us! 

Mis Marcile 

         The group who hired to Ft. Gary 

                         House call 

St. Lukes amputation

Hello everyone!
  Many of you who have visited our clinic probably know St. Luke (pronounced Senleek). Anyone who has worked here knows him. He's very friendly and easy to get to know. He's "papa" to many, including myself. 😊
He lives about 45 minutes away (walking) and started coming to clinic in 2010 or before with an infection in his leg. The story was that his infection started with an itch and continually got worse. It smelled very bad and was severely infected. "It started with an itch" is something that we commonly hear and it's difficult to know exactly what the cause is but in most cases we may never know. What we do know is that most of us wouldn't go to the doctor as soon as we should either if we had to hike over mountains to get there.😁
Over the years, St. Lukes infection was treated and bandaged daily by many different clinic staff and really improved several times but when it was starting to really heal up, he didn't come back for his bandages like he needed to and it got worse again. This has been very discouraging for everyone involved. In 2018, (if I'm remembering correctly) Ben took him to a specialist who confirmed that he had a tropical venous ulcer. They did an operation to remove a vein from his leg. After that he was moved into a small house right beside the clinic so we could care for him more effectively. Ben spent hours and hours taking care of him and bandaging his leg. He lived there for over 6 months and it was getting quite a bit better when he decided to move back to his house. After that he still came for bandages but the progress which had been made declined again.
In the recent months, it has gotten very very painful for him and he had a very hard time walking to clinic so he often comes on a donkey. Bandages are very painful for him and he has become resistant to some antibiotics and pain medications.
In February Trent and Daniella took him to a hospital to check into doing an amputation but it didn't work out.
Last week, Mis Leda went along with him to another hospital and they were  able to successfully amputate his leg! We're so excited! He was in severe pain for several days since the pain meds aren't very affective for him. He's doing better now tho, Praise the Lord!
Unfortunately, he is very poor because he hasn't been able to work the last several years. He owns basically nothing and has no money to pay for the surgery. He has some family but its a really sad situation. I'm not sure about all the details but they're not willing to help him.
Would you be willing to help out? Any amount of money would be extremely helpful! You can send it via PayPal HERE 

I'm also posting a QR code that you can scan if you prefer to do it that way. 

You can also send it via Cashapp, using the cashtag $GospeltoHaiti 

Or, mail a check to 

Gospel to Haiti

E4846A Meyer road

Reedsburg, WI 53959

Remember to specify that your donation is for St. Lukes amputation! 

Please pray for him!  He has a long road of recovery ahead of him. Pray that he wouldn't get discouraged and that it would heal well! Thanks so much!

-Mis Emma

 

busy!

Hello everyone!
  It's March already, hard to believe! The last couple weeks we've been really busy and it feels a bit like we're running around like chickens with their heads chopped off. 😁 Maybe not that bad but there's been a serious baby boom going on. We've delivered 11 babies so far this month and its the 11th. There were only 2 days without a birth and some sleepless nights. One night, after working with a laboring mom till 3am, we decided to transport her to Ti-Goave. At 7am, when we were almost back home, we met a group carrying a cot in to clinic. The patient was a young man with a burned leg. We went back to the house and had a quick power-nap before starting a new clinic day! The man with the burn is staying here at clinic so we can keep a close eye on him and give him the treatment he needs in a clean involvement to prevent infection.
Last night we got our first full night's sleep in about a week. Even when we're very tired, God gives us the strength we need! He never gives us more than we can handle.
Our hospital room is very full at night. Family members sleep on the tile floor and all the beds are full with patients.
Amidst the chaos, there have been a lot of highlights. One of them is a 9 month old baby who is staying at clinic. We call him our little pumpkin. He weighed 9lb 6oz, couldn't sit and barely had the strength to hold his head. He had a cold and also scabies. The poor little guy kept scratching himself with the little strength that he had. He also cried a lot. Now, after 2 weeks, he's gained over a pound, his face and hands are filling out and he coos and smiles! We adore him and don't know what we'll do without him when he's strong enough to go home.
  Also, our new birthing center is getting started! It'll all marked off where it will go and we're so excited!  For Trent and the others who are responsible, it takes a lot of planning, work, and faith. There are not yet enough funds to finish it so help with that would be greatly appreciated. Please help us pray that it would all work and and if you feel led, donate to https:/www.paypal.me/gthmission.

Larayne and I planted the garden last week and we've been having rain every day so we don't need to water it. There are lots of thing pushing up through the stony ground. So rewarding.
May we all keep growing in Jesus Christ. He is the water of life. God Bless you all!
Gloria

 

Update From Mis Marcile

It feels good to get back to normal life here in Haiti after being back in the States to visit family and friends! I thoroughly enjoyed seeing my new nephew and just being with family and friends. I got to experience the cold! My least favorite thing in the states🤪. 

We've been having some pretty full clinic days and some very stressful days! I think the most stressful thing for me working in the medical field here in Haiti is finding hospitals to transfer our patients to. We are a small, out patient clinic so the patients that have needs we can't take care of here need to be sent to a bigger hospital that can take care of them. 

Right now we are trying to get one of our regular bandage patients, Selik to a hospital that can amputate his foot. He has been coming here for years with a wound that just has not been healing even after being to several different hospitals and being on tons of meds. He is in alot of pain and its getting worse, and he's begging us to take him somewhere to amputate. So within the next couple days we are going to try to get him into a hospital that can help him. 

On Thursday we had a mom come in, in premature labor. We are not equipped here to take care of premature babies and usually transfer but this time the mother was progressing quite fast and after discussing our options we decided its safer to keep her here than deliver a premature baby on the road. As the closest hospital we could transfer her to where they would be able to give her proper care was atleast 5 hrs away. This dear mother quietly and quickly delivered a premature baby girl. I was surprised at the baby's size 5lbs 5oz. I was expecting she would be smaller! We worked on her for about 2 minutes before she gave us a good strong cry and opened her eyes! We kept her on a heating pad and oxygen and she seemed to be doing fine, we checked on her regularly.  On Friday morning when I went to check on her I was alarmed at her color and breathing. We immediately evaluated to situation and decided to transport... but we didn't realize how difficult of a time we would have trying to get her to a hospital that had what she needed. We finally got her loaded on the machine and headed out to a hospital that had already said that they were too full to take her but we were out of options and couldn't lose anymore time... she died about an hour out the trail. My heart was filled with pain as I prayed for the mother and tried to comfort her. I struggled with asking God, "Why?".  When we try so hard to do everything we possibly can....but I know God has a reason for everything.

Recently we made the trip to the Fondeblanc hospital with Patrick. He had been having stomach issues and needed a new wheelchair.

We are excited about the work starting on the new birth center! Patrick's house will need to be taken down and new one has been recently built for him. So today there was a "work day" cleaning his house and around the house before he moves in.

We are having alot of patients right now with scabies... there seems to be an epidemic of them right now!  its an intensely itchy skin infestation caused by a mite. This little baby has a mild case of scabies.

-Mis Marcile

 Hello  everyone from sunny south 

Today its started out to be a beautiful sunny day here in Haiti , now the clouds are rolling in looks like it could possibly rain again . We have had quit a bit of rain the last couple days which is real nice cuz it seemed to be getting dry an this rain seems to be perfect 4 all the gardeners! 

This past week my parents came to visit me an I really enjoyed there stay . There visit got extended a couple days due to some unrest in Port . Also with them  went Marcille an Jacinda.  Marcille is on furlough for 2 weeks . Jacinda term is up, made us all sad to see her leave we enjoyed her so much . She served here for a year as domestic help , now Loraine stutzman came to take her place! 

Seems like this past week was really full . I did my first stitch job on a little boys  ,he had fallen on a rock making a little gash in his forehead. Only took 3 stitches an last time we saw it , it was healing up real nicely.  Yesterday  afternoon a little girl came with a cut on her forehead an she was not planning to let us stitched it up , she was a feisty little thing I held her down while mis Junie (a haitian nurse ) did her best to put a couple stitches in ! 

Little boy that got a gash on his forehead all wrapped up an ready to go

27th of January we had a month old baby coming in her mom had a real bad breast infection , baby weighed 5lbs 7oz . My mom had fun bathing an feeding the baby , she is gaining weight already her little face is becoming fatter 🥰  so good to see that ! 

The little 5lb 7oz baby !

2 little girls that were born here at the clinic !

My mom an me holding the 2 little girls!

My parents brought  some seeds for us girls  , so were having fun seeing what we can all grow ! They all started off great now to see if we can keep them alive ! 😊

Planting our seeds !

Our plants that are still nicely growing!

Sunday afternoon we hiked up to the mountain to our favorite grassy spot with some of the neighborhood youth we sang some songs together in creole, made a bonfire an than roasted hot dogs than just spend the rest of the afternoon up there playing game . Me an Marcile had to run back down to the clinic to wrap up a little girls hand that she had cut between her fingers on some tin. After we were done we hiked back up the mountain plus all the rest of the family as we were planning to have supper up there but as soon as everyone was up on the mountain it started to rain so we all headed back down, till we got to the bottom of the mountain the trail was getting slippery by the minute .seems as soon as it rains those trails get slick like ice . We than just ate our supper in the gazebo. Thankful that we have a nice dry place to go too when it rains! Unlike some of our friends ! 

Our sunday afternoon on the mountain!

Time here has taught me a lot . I realize how much God has blessed me with ,seeing  how many things I take so often for granted an  Just learning to bless other people with things I've been blessed with ! Our life on this earth is but a vapor may we live every moment for Jesus. 

Love, Gloria Nolt

Update from Mis Marcile

 Sorry about our absence... this post has been long in coming... I've sat down a couple times trying to get something written but every time I start so many memories come flooding into my mind and I get lost! 

 

 

Our last day of clinic for 2020 was on December 18th. We ended our day with a clinic and mission staff Christmas party! Every one was excited for the upcoming vacation. To say the least the next couple weeks had looked very overwhelming to me... we had big days ahead of us filled with inventory of all the meds and supplies we had in our depots and pharmacy, a thorough cleaning of the whole clinic scrubbing top to bottom, painting, reorganizing and more. As we tackled each project I was amazed at how well things moved along! 

Towards the end of our Cleaning a team of amazingly sweet people showed up and pitched in with the painting and all the extra stuff we didn't get done! I was also soooo thankful for their help when clinic opened again as we are short staffed and the first couple day were extremely busy.

New years Eve was spent on top of a little grassy Noll behind our mission compound. We often hike up there for service or just to get away to relax... A picnic supper and the fresh cool air was extremely invigorating as we watched the moon rise into the sky!

Our long awaited and much looked forward to vacation finally arrived on Jan 3rd! the excitement was high as we made the trip to Indigo beach/resort. The 3 Days we spent there were extremely refreshing. Then on the way back home we stopped in at the airport to pick up our new mechanic guy.

Here's a picture of us when we were at the beach.

Clinic and mission staff