2011 Year In Review
Posted By admin on February 11, 2012
2011 Year In Review
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Mountain Weddings
Posted By admin on February 7, 2012
My January 2012 trip to Haiti if I can say one word (awesome) may sum it up. The weather was beautiful; I even slept under a blanket at night. One the 19th of January Barbie Porter and myself took off up the mountain to Marotier for a Secret Pavilion Lady’s Conference with the Army Truck loaded with five other ladies from the team , Pastor Julian, Christophe and Widson. Along with us was Dean Abner and interpreter Jean Dort who went to do a VBS for the Children.
To our great surprise when we arrived at Marotier we found them preparing for not one but three weddings that same day. As most of you know, we have over the last year collected wedding dresses and wedding clothes for upcoming weddings in the mountains of Haiti. We had been told that there were over 50 couples that needed to be married, that had been saved and wanted to join the church. Weddings in Haiti are a big event and like here in the US, very costly. The gowns arrived in December and many weddings had already taken place.
Imagine sharing the most important event of your lives in a beautiful, romantic mountain setting. I was much honored to be able to see these beautiful brides and to be able to minister to them on that special day. What a beautiful backdrop the mountains of Haiti for these Brides a day they will never forget. (more…)
A Health Update from Dr. Bob
Posted By admin on January 26, 2012
Gentlefolk: One week ago today I awakened with a severe coughing spasm, followed by excruciating chest pain. I knew at once I was suffering a heart attack. Betty rushed me to the nearest hospital and I seriously doubted I would get there alive. But God had other plans for me, and I survived a total occlusion of a major coronary vessel, and miraculously, with no apparent serious damage to the heart muscle. My cardiologist told me I was unbelievably lucky (Interpreted: unbelievably blessed beyond all measure)! Clearly, my work here is not finished. Still, discretion is “the better part of valor”, so I am forced by circumstance to sideline myself for a time. I have been advised to take a sabbatical from my mission duties for several months, even to the exclusion of conducting business by email and phone. My coming trip to Jolivert will have to be postponed for the time being, although the group I was to travel with will go in as planned with several goals in mind (installation of our new xray machine, fine-tuning our solar power grid, vehicle repairs among them). (more…)
A Second Look at Haiti
Posted By admin on January 18, 2012
My name is Patt Bristow and I want to share some reflections on a recent trip to Haiti. In the summer of 2010 (July 4, to be exact, the heat of the summer), I took a much-anticipated “mission trip” to visit Haiti. I was with a group of about twenty others from my church in San Jose, California, and in the weeks leading up to our departure we had team meetings both to become acquainted and to gain some grace for meshing with a foreign culture. Our destination: Pignon, wherever that was. (Real maps of Haiti can be hard to come by). Near Pignon was the mission work supported by our church and overseen by JeanJean and Kristie Mompremier. Haiti was unlike anything I’d experienced in almost six decades of American life. (more…)
Asa & Jean’s Update Dec 2011
Posted By admin on January 18, 2012
” Let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds….Let us us encourage one another.” Hebrews 10:24
This verse was carried out during our trip in so many ways and by so many people. God truly has His hand in the work of the mission, from the Haitian staff to the short term workers. The ladies who came with us this time (you may read their reports elsewhere in this web site) were so energetic and enthusiastic that it spread to all around them. They cheerfully worked at all sorts of tasks – cleaning and reorganizing several areas, sorting large amounts of eyeglasses, teaching and preparing refreshments for a group of about 100 children and another group of 100 ladies. (more…)
Merry Christmas Letter From Christophe in Jolivert
Posted By admin on December 23, 2011
Dear Directors and Supporters,
In the behalf of all employees at MOL Jolivert,I want to wish you a very Merry Christmas and hope this Christmas season brings you hope,peace,joy and happiness.
At the end of this year,we want to thank you for your efforts and sacrifices you have been made to support our ministries in Jolivert,Haiti. I want to tell you your help touches many and many hopeless people and is really meaningful for them. Praise God,despite of all troubles and difficulties Haiti has been through,our Mighty God is still on our side and enable us and strength us to accomplish our daily and monthly tasks during this year.
This year,about 3000 patients have been treated at clinic Jolivert for different kinds of illness like malaria,Typhoid,intestinal parasites,high blood pressure,skin infections,respiratory diseases and so forth. In the Lab,we have been testing about 700 patients and about 295 among them are positives. Lots of thanks for Malaria Fini who help us to distribute free Chloroquin at jolivert and at the remote mountain and so many people can be relief from Malaria. About 300 patients among the so many testing,has been treated for Typhoid. More than 5000 Albendazol has been distributed. (more…)
International Action partners with MOL for Deworming Meds
Posted By admin on December 22, 2011
This is an article from International Action. MOL partnered with them for the deworming Medicine that Karen Becher and group were able to use during outreach clinics this summer.
Work Progressing but Funds are Depleting Quickly
Posted By admin on November 6, 2011
November 6, 2011
Gentlefolk:
Some of our directors have just returned from some highly-productive trips to our compound at Jolivert. While each of them will make their own reports on our website, I’ll just summarize by saying they were impressed by the great job our Haitian staff continues to do on a daily basis in serving the poor and sick in our area of endeavors. Dr Asa continued his training at the eye clinic as his wife Jean continued her evangelical work with the citizenry. (She also celebrated her 80th birthday while there)! Nancy and her people made outreach trips high into the surrounding mountains and held many meetings and conferences as well, as her adult literacy still grows by leaps and bounds. Yet most of what you hear in the news regarding the post-earthquake recovery in Haiti is not encouraging.
While the world at large is confounded and frustrated at the difficulties and failures suffered in Haiti by many of the larger, more widely-known organizations such as USAID, UNICEF, Red Cross, Food for the Poor, and many others, it is a well-established fact that the greatest successes in both relief work and re-building since the earthquake have been achieved by smaller NGO’s and charitable groups such as MISSIONS OF LOVE. Our accomplishments, by the Grace of God, have been well documented: we’ve fed many thousands of near-starved people (including almost a half-million meals to hungry kids). In Port-au-Prince in the weeks and months following the quake we’ve rebuilt homes, opened schools, provided hundreds of tents for those left homeless by the quake, operated street clinics and provided surgical teams at the epicenter of the quake at the general hospital. In the early days after this devastating disaster, we were among the first to provide drinking water, food, and medicines with direct hands-on supervision by several of our own directors, often at great risk of personal injury from falling buildings from the frequent aftershocks while the bureaucratic boondogglers at the airport just couldn’t start moving these items off the tarmac quickly enough to meet the enormous needs of those tragic early hours.