August Trip 2015

Our Team is gearing up for our August Trip to Cap Haitien August 1-August 9th.  This trip will be a new venture for us all. We have been to the clinic to see where we will be working. Currently there is only one other group going out to this clinic so our assistance is welcomed by the community This trip will be led by Sabine Boudreau.  The team will be working at the Tovar Medical Clinic which was established in 1985. The clinic is about 20-30 min drive from the city of Cap Haitien.

Here is a vimeo video created by the only medical team currently partnering up with the people of Tovar to provide health care: https://vimeo.com/62080786

Doug and I had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Raymond Ford leads the team in the video; he has been working with the people of Tovar for the past 20 years and states they have been the only team coming out to the region for the past 10-15 years. We are excited to work together with organization on this venture.

Please consider supporting the team and the work at the Tovar Clinic.  You can donate using the PayPal button the menu or by mailing a check. As always thank you for your love and support of our mission.  

Our February Team will be leaving tomorrow for OSAPO.  Please join us in praying for our February Mission Team!  We'll be looking forward to hearing from them next week as they blog about their experiences.

Mission Trip Prayer

Dear Father,

We pray your help and blessings on the members of the mission trip.  Thank you that each person is taking time out of their busy lives to serve You by serving others.  Thank you that You have spoken to their hearts and that they are willing to venture outside of their homes, neighborhoods and comfort zones.  Keep them strong mentally, physically and spiritually.  Give them safe travels, energy and enthusiasm and an ability to be flexible when plans change.

May their arrival at their destination be a sign of Your love to those they serve.  Help the smiles and hugs and acts of friendship of the mission team members clearly communicate acceptance and comfort to those hungry for You.  May they be true ambassadors for Christ through their actions both on and off the job, both with those they serve and with their fellow team members.

We pray that this trip will be extremely successful in strengthening the faith of every team member.  Increase their trust in You as they leave their responsibilities and worries about their families and lives back home in Your watchful care.  As they see and experience different ways of life, give them new perspective on their lives and about the things that really matter most.  Give them the joy of service.  Strengthen their faith and reliance on You.  Enable them to graciously and humbly receive small gifts of great magnitude given to them by those who have little yet who are moved to give sacrificially.  May each team member strongly feel Your Holy Spirit at work in them and through them.

And so Father, we ask that you bless the mission project, the team members and leaders, those they serve and the team member’s families back home.  Thank you for this wonderful opportunity to actively work in a meaningful way in Your wonderful Kingdom.

Amen.

December 31, 2014

Happy almost 2015!  We have four trips planned this year:  February, April, July, and October.  Contact us soon if you or someone you know would be interested in grabbing a spot on an upcoming trip!  We are also working hard on a website, but in the meantime you can keep up to date on all the news via Facebook or right here on our blog!

First up; Ke Nou is partnering with Global First Responders to send a team to the OSAPO clinic February 22-March 1.  Leading this trip is Sandra Beldor.  It isn't too late to sign up if you are interested in serving!  The team will be working in the clinic Monday-Friday with a rest day on Saturday and then will travel home on Sunday.  If you would like more information please contact us at missions@ke-nou.org.  If you would like to support a participant on the February Trip please use the PayPal Donate Now button and be sure and note the name of the participant you are supporting!  Ke Nou is a registered 501 (c) 3 non-profit with the IRS and all donations are tax deductible.  As always thank you for your love and support of our mission.

May 12, 2013 Fond Parisien, Haiti

Doug-
This evening finds me on the porch of the guest apartment at Haitian Christian Mission on the second day of a mission trip. This one isn't exactly a Ke Nou trip, it's led by Guesly Dessieux and is in conjunction with Corban University. Corban is a small Christian college in Oregon. Seventeen undergraduate health careers students are with 6 providers and 6 nurses for this trip.
Yesterday was for flying and unpacking, and not sleeping. The Oregon group started flying on Friday.
Today the team split into two groups each attending a different church and holding clinic in that church afterwards. My group went to the same church I wrote about in "Ghosts of Port-au-Prince" .
The church looks the same, 3 walls, still, 18 months later and nothing more rebuilt.
The ghosts feel like they are gone, though.
I don't know if it's like this with many disasters, but Port au Prince seems eager to put the earthquake behind them.  No one here talks about it much, although it's almost all anyone in the US knows about Haiti. It's good, I think, the moving past.
My fear, though is that Haiti, despite all its effort to rebuild, will again be caught off guard by the next disaster.
Church today was long. Not America long, Haiti long. 3 and a half hours. In Creole. I struggle to keep track of what's going on, thinking, at 2 hours in "That's a lot of reading and introductions, but was any of that a sermon?" Just then, Sabine leans over and whispers to me "he hasn't even begun to preach yet" And then he did. It was loud. It was passionate. It was 90 minutes. A confession: I struggle to stay awake in English services when I am actually following and interested in the preaching and I am not sleep deprived
Then clinic. I love the buzz and chaos and eagerness of the Haitian patients. This is an easy clinic. The kids are healthy, minor colds, allergies and scabies. The kids are shy and charming and peak in timid Creole.
We see 97 patients in a smooth 3 hours.
We get home, eat and play soccer against the local schoolkids. They are confident. They say they will score 10 goals on us. They score 2. We score 6.  I am easily the slowest and least skilled payer out there.
All in all a great day in Haiti.