admin | 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 [...]
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 | August 11, 2011
Wow! As a first timer to Haiti (and missions), I found that it was everything I expected, yet at the same time all I didn’t expect. The sights, smells and sounds were sensory overload and the utter poverty was overwhelming. Yet, despite the seemingly dire conditions, the people are resilient and gracious. As a result, [...]
admin | August 3, 2011
Eight days in Haiti just isn’t long enough to accomplish everything that you want to do. Honestly, I don’t think ANY length of time would allow you to do everything you want to do. I want to thank Karen Becher and Amy Bankston for an amazing week. It was Amy’s first visit to Haiti. I [...]
admin | July 29, 2011
Today we took 4 “taxis” to Odige. Translated that means we rode on the back of a moped for an hour, loaded down with bags of donated medicine! It was an awesome day. Dr. Gerard and Nurse Edline saw 87 patients, lots of prescriptions were filled, Amy Bankston made foam crosses with the children while [...]
Amy Wolf | July 27, 2011
Karen Becher, Amy Bankston and I all made it to Haiti safe. We were blessed to spend the night at Good Shepherd Orphanage in Port au Prince. The kids sang for us this morning before we headed back to the airport to get Amy’s missing luggage. First timers initiation, only half her luggage made it! [...]
Amy Wolf | March 9, 2009
By Patricia Duarte Our trip to Haiti started out with delays and also ended in delays….and they say that is typical of trips to Haiti. We including myself, Anna & Mark Sampley, Todd Camp, Earl Phelps & Pastor Ray Peach departed from Nashville with excitement of seeing our friends in Haiti and making new ones. [...]
