by Family Health Ministries | Sep 17, 2013 | Mission Journal
Getting more fuel for the generator is not that easy. First, Jeff and Jonathas loaded an empty tank on to Jonathas’ moto. Yes, at first the tank fell off. Jonathas took the tank to a gas station on the Leogane Road, and then he came back to get Jeff. When...
by Family Health Ministries | Sep 16, 2013 | Mission Journal
No new photos but we are here! Our trip went without a hitch with Emile picking us up at the airport and taking us to change money, check out “Star 2000,” a grocery/housewares (and wine and liquor) store in Port-au-Prince. Many things, e.g plastic bags,...
by Family Health Ministries | Sep 13, 2013 | Mission Journal
Family Health Ministries’ Nancy Ferree Clark Guesthouse in Leogane, Hait Recently one of my sisters asked why we are going to Haiti. She wanted to know if it was going to be fun or if we were just going to help out. I thought it was a good question. Sugar cane...
by Family Health Ministries | Sep 11, 2013 | Mission Journal
Our friend Jose Luis said he hoped we would be “pruned” in our upcoming six weeks in Haiti. Of course he was referring to John 15. The pruning has started as we have to decide what to take and what to leave at home. And, as we have looked at our garden,...
by Family Health Ministries | Oct 21, 2012 | Mission Journal
The new Fondwa school, several days before the grand opening Jeff and I both just read More Than Good Intentions: Improving the Ways the World’s Poor Borrow, Save, Farm, Learn, and Stay Healthy by Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel. It’s a very readable book by...
by Family Health Ministries | Oct 12, 2012 | Mission Journal
We were here for almost week without a single visitor, since our last guests left last Friday morning. We’ve about run out of things to do, and the staff has been idle as well. You don’t need to mop the floors too frequently in rooms where noone has been,...
