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 Missions of Love began as a medical mission that used medicine to bring people to know Christ. Over the years, Missions of Love has expanded beyond our Medical Clinic to include an Eye and Ear Clinic, Safe Water Program, Children's Band and Choir as well as many more. We are continually growing and spreading the good news to everyone who will listen. Please use the menu to the left to scroll through our various ministries. |
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Construction Projects January 2008 Update SOLAR Looking at renewable resources for our future The most crucial need of all for us just now is for the materials required for converting from primarily diesel-generated energy at our Jolivert compound to a primarily solar-powered system. While the initial outlay for solar panels, inverters and deep cycle batteries can be onerous, the monthly cost of diesel now currently used is fast becoming prohibitive. It has already forced us to sharply ration the number of hours weekly that we can operate our 48 kw Kubota generator.
By switching to a primarily solar-powered system, we can sharply reduce the cost of diesel fuel purchased, currently running at over $4.00 US per gallon. What we need most is a bank of around 16 Trojan deep-cycle batteries. These now cost around $120.00US each if purchased here in Haiti. If any churches, Sunday school classes, or individuals would like to take any or all of these on as a project of compassion, that would be wonderful! Another item badly needed is a new 2400 watt inverter; now running in the $1200 range. As for solar panels, we basically need as many as we can get. They run around $950 each, and we could actually use as many as twenty.
As you can see, the project of switching over totally will run into the tens of thousands. The plus side is that our system can start as small as necessary, and be grown over time as resources allow. Any or all that anyone wishes to be blessed by sharing with us will be enormous.
Aug. 2007 Update Thanks to a generous $48,000 grant from one of our supporters, our new 20x80 foot two-storied hospital, x-ray, and lab structure is now complete and ready for occupation. The upstairs is all finished except for one of the living apartments and one unit houses our Haitian mission director, Blaud Mondesir, another our new mission office, and two more will house our nurses. The total cost was in the $75,000 range, furnished largely by visiting volunteer work groups and other donations over a several month period. This provided wiring, plumbing, ceramic flooring, windows, doors, cabinetry, and a host of other costs that kept popping up. The ground floor will house a new and much larger laboratory, an x-ray
facility containing our newly refurbished GM AMX 2000 battery-powered
x-ray machine, dark room, pharmacy, and a large 8-bed hospital ward for
overnight care; as well as our newest temporary outpatient clinic. Other new construction has included a brand new factory for our manba production (see report elsewhere on this website for "manba for malnutrition.") It is now in operation, producing 1 kg. containers of manba nutritional supplement for our malnourished kids in the area. A new addition has been built onto Dr. Talbot's eye clinic for storage also, and an addition has been made to our generator shed to house our newest 48,000 watt Kubota diesel generator. All of this has placed a huge strain on our budget, but we are finally "caught up" to a point at which we can place a moratorium on future construction for a year or so and concentrate on upgrading and perfecting the nine existing structures we now have on our compound. To God be the glory! When our general fund has recovered sufficiently, we will then resume our construction agenda to include new operating rooms, birthing center and administration/outpatient buildings. All of this takes a lot of both time and money, but God has always provided and we are standing on his promises for the future. One of the immediate projects facing us is an attempt to replace deisel-generated electricity with solar as often as possible. We are currently planning a much larger array of solar panels, a bank of about 16 deep-cycle batteries, and a new inverter-charger. This will remove the huge monthly burden of purchasing deisel fuel at nearly $8 dollars per gallon at present costs. Anyone (or any group) out there who would like to take on this project? It will cost in the area of $3000US. Thank you, Lord, in advance for filling this huge need!
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