June 2024

The political situation in Haiti remains dire, but I want to start with some positive updates:

• Our doctors and nurses and dentist at the clinic in Diegue continue to see many patients.

• The airport in Port au Prince recently reopened, so hopefully I will soon be able to send the medication and supplies for the clinic.

• We have opened a food depot, where women can get food for their families, with a plan for them to resell some of the food at the markets, and thus create a sustainable business for them.

• Please pray for wisdom as we try to help the most vulnerable families. We continue to rent housing for about 10 families who had to leave their homes and farms due to the gangs.

Here’s a cute recent video of Wilkens.

One young patient, a ten year old boy named Wilkens, came to our clinic about 2 months ago with severe malnutrition and parasitic infections. His brother died the week before due to a similar condition. We kept him at the clinic, treated him, fed him well, and he is in great shape now, and going to the Emmaus School.

We are currently working to help Stessa, a 10 year old girl with a tumor in the bone of her upper jaw. She needs to be taken to the Dominican Republic to see a surgeon who specializes in this. The Dominican Republic has closed its border with Haiti, and suspended issuance of visas. But God is able to do more than we can even ask or think.

I will be traveling to the Dominican Republic in July for a medical mission in cooperation with a Haitian church near Santo Domingo. While I am there, I plan to help coordinate the surgery for Stessa.

As you probably are aware, Haitians continue to suffer under desperate conditions. We are especially grieved by the killing of a young missionary couple, Davy and Natalie Lloyd, and Jude Montis of Missions in Haiti. Please pray for their families, and for their much needed work to continue. Please pray for peace in Haiti.

Thank you so much for your support.