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Ministry of Medicine Team to Haiti

By Brenda Clowers

Brenda Clowers with a patient

In September, fifteen of us traveled to various locales in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to conduct medical clinics and a pastor’s seminar. We arrived in the afternoon of September 20, 2007, from six different states. After a time of orientation, we began organizing the medications to prepare for the clinic scheduled to begin the very next day.

The first two days of clinics were held in Port-au-prince while Otis Garrison, who works with Mission of Hope in Haiti, joined OMC Dan Clowers of Latin America and the Caribbean and RMC Darrel Clowers, to hold a pastor’s seminar. Fifty pastors attended the conference.

Dan Clowers teaching pastors

For the next three days, we traveled to remote villages where we gave vitamins and parasite medication to all the schoolchildren in our People to People schools in Cabaret, Tapio, and La Rousch, and then set up clinics for the communities.

Overall, we dispensed over 4,000 prescriptions and treated more than 1,400 patients – and this was in addition to the students. At the three schools, there were approximately 1,100 students.

Revonda and Shirley with crowd

We were able to pray with many of the patients and several prayed the sinner’s prayer. Local pastors and school directors have committed to follow up with the patients. We were able to refer a few parents with very ill infants to the Mission of Hope hospital where they could receive thorough treatment.

These were the members of our hardworking team:

Dan Clowers, LAMCAR OMC,
Darrel Clowers, Carribbean RMC
Brenda Clowers, TEAM Leader
Linda Shepherd (Appalachian Conference), Head nurse
Misty Queen, (Appalachian Conference), medical clinic helper
Donna Agee (Appalachian Conference) nurse
Shirley Leath (Cornerstone Conference), nurse
Revonda Anderson (Cornerstone Conference), medical clinic helper
Angela Peacock (Cornerstone Conference) medical clinic helper
Angela Russell (Georgia Conference) medical clinic helper
Veda Godbee (Georgia Conference), medical clinic helper
Darlene Colon (Georgia Conference), medical clinic helper
Leo Lassiter (New Horizons Conference), nurse
Leroy Nitzel, (OKC, OK) manual labor
Don Miller (Cornerstone Conference), medical clinic helper

Dan and Darrel Clowers with local children

Several members of this team are praying about going back to Haiti in 2008 to participate in more medical clinics, construction projects, a women’s conference and other ministry opportunities.

If you are interested in being part of the ministry in Haiti, please contact Brenda Clowers at BrendaClowersWMM@aol.com or Darrel and Bonnie Clowers at DBClowers@yahoo.com.