admin | 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 [...]
admin | 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 [...]
admin | October 26, 2011
So much has happened since my last report in April of this year, I hardly know where to begin. As I reported to you then, Vanessa and Tom Carpenter (AngelMissionsHaiti), having felt called to open a K-12 English Immersion school and home for children at Jolivert, moved into mine and Betty’s apartment there this summer along with five of their children for a trial immersion of their own into the culture and community of Jolivert. Some snags, but overall it was a good experience, and they went home ever more dedicated to carrying out their plans beginning in the near future.
They have already bitten the bullet by purchasing two acres of land joining our compound to the rear and plans are on for Boss Wilson to begin excavation and foundation work in the immediate future. A new access road is planned immediately to the north of our property as well.
My April trip included a tour of the new hospital at Bassin Bleu (on the site of their old crumbling and neglected clinic so inadequately operated by the Haitian Ministry of health over the past many years). What a delightful surprise! It seems a consortium involving three countries (Venezuela, Peru, and Cuba) have constructed a lovely little hospital complete with two operating rooms, an ER, lab, pharmacy, and x-ray (although the x-ray is, like ours, non-functional just now). More importantly, it is fully staffed by both Haitian and Cuban doctors and nurses, including general surgeons who are operating almost daily. And here’s the wonderful kicker to it all: their services are provided at NO CHARGE! Even limited amounts of medication are provided free by the pharmacy. What a boon to this desperately poor community; and only 5 kilometers from our clinic at Jolivert. Needless to say it has practically put our clinic out of business, since we are still required by the ministry to charge a small fee for both medicines and services, including lab. And it is only by doing so that we can continue to purchase needed meds for our pharmacy and to meet payroll of our thirty-plus employees each month.
admin | May 9, 2011
On April 8th I flew into a different Port-au-Prince than the sadly demolished one I flew out of only a year ago. I could scarcely believe my eyes at the amazing progress that had been made in cleaning up this rubble-strewn city in such a brief time span; and this with mostly pick-axe, shovel and [...]
admin | December 13, 2010
The Christmas season is upon us once more, and as we prepare to celebrate the birth of our Lord and Saviour, this time of good cheer reminds us again of how very blessed we are to live in this great land, culture and society called America. And if we heed the teachings of the reason [...]
admin | October 2, 2010
Gentlefolk: Many have asked me recently: “Are things any better in Haiti? This article is a “must-read” if you’d like a little reality check on  the situation in Haiti. PLEASE continue your gifts, as they are needed as never before. Love to all! Dr Bob Haiti: Grace in the rubble | National Catholic Reporter.
Amy Wolf | July 20, 2010
Gentlefolk: It is now roughly six months (27 weeks)post-earthquake in Haiti. Millions of dollars of aid are at long last pouring steadily into the country for ongoing relief efforts through USAID, UNICEF, WHO, Red Cross and literally hundreds of other smaller organizations;( most of which are faith-based as is our own MOL).  And yet, it [...]
admin | May 30, 2010
Ezma Johnson Published: Sunday, May 30, 2010 12:12 AM CDT HARTFORD — Ezma Johnson, 98, formerly of Owensboro, passed away Friday, May 28, 2010, at her home at Dogwood Retreat. She was born the daughter of the late Thomas Jefferson and Hatha Smith Dunagan on Sept. 24, 1911, in eastern Kentucky. She was a member [...]
