Kristy
Engel a pediatric nurse practitioner and IM missionary in the Dominican
Republic (DR), and Vital and Ketly Pierre, IM missionaries in Nicaragua have been overseeing medical care for Haiti
earthquake victims not served by any other groups. Rotating teams
composed of volunteer professional medical personnel from the U.S. and elsewhere travel from the DR each week
to Port-au-Prince.
Temporary clinics are set up in schools and church buildings.
Word-of-mouth advertising is initiated by school principals or church leaders
24 hours before each team arrives. Once a treatment place is established
different teams go to the same location until Haitians are equipped to provide
care. When that occurs, teams under Kristy’s supervision are sent to
other critical neighborhoods. (Volunteer doctors and physician assistants
are asked to email a message to BIM volunteers@abc-usa.org to become part of a
team.)
IM missionary Stephen James, M.D. and his wife Nancy, a registered nurse,
requested prayer support as they left their home in the north of Haiti to
return to Port-au-Prince. Their plans included helping to prepare a place
belonging to IM’s mission partner, the Convention of Baptists in Haiti
(CBH). When teams soon arrive during the rebuilding phase, they will be
assured of a safe place to stay.
The rebuilding phase will also be the focus this week in Haiti when José Norat-Rodriguez, IM area
director for Iberoamerica and the Caribbean,
with Herb Rogers and Dave Worth (IM staff) and CBH leaders meet to refine plans
for the immediate future.
- Pray for God to supply helpers and for the many volunteers who are seeking to bring relief and assistance to those who are living in the midst of the devastation of the earthquake.