Haiti Medical Mission

Haiti Earthquake Relief Medical Mission 2010   Team photo               CJ at clinic
The First 2010 Medical Team to Haiti left February 21 and returned February 28.  CJ Ross from St. Francis was a member of the team.  Please visit the Diocese of Alabama Website for news and information on the Medical Mission Team.  Please click on the below link for photos and information:

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   Haiti 2010: waiting for exams

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Haiti Earthquake Relief - Answer the Call
Write a check to the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama.
  • Note  "Haiti Earthquake Relief" in the Memo line.  
  • Send these checks to: 
Carpenter House
The Episcopal Diocese of Alabama
521 North 20th Street
Birmingham, Alabama 35203 
  • OR - St. Francis can send your check to the Diocese.  Please write your check as noted above. 

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PREPARING FOR THE 2010 MEDICAL MISSION EARTHQUAKE RELIEF TEAM 
In Thanksgiving:
To all of you who made dessert, cooked and/or ate soup for the Haiti fund raiser, my deepest gratitude.  Your generosity, support and prayers allow us again to help the Diocese of Alabama bring much needed nutrition, and medical care to our brothers and sisters in Haiti.
C.J. Ross

Medical Mission to Haiti-Wednesday Night Soup Bar: on October 28, 2009 from 4:30-7:00pm.  You may dine in or carry out $12.00 per person which includes your choice of soup, fruited coleslaw, French bread and dessert...   All proceeds will go to support the upcoming medical mission to Haiti. For more information and to sign up please see the table in the Narthex, or contact C.J. Ross at cjenkinsro@aol.com.

There are immediate needs.  You can support the team by donation.  Bass Pro Shops is giving the team a generous discount to purchase two 10X10 Coleman Tents at the price of $225 and gasoline in Haiti will cost the team approximately $27.00 per gallon.  Your donations can help defray these costs and much, much, more.  Also the following supplies are needed, please consider donating:

Triple antibiotic cream
Cortisone
Children's Tylenol and Motrin
Adult Motrin, Aleve and Tylenol 
Antibacterial sanitizers - all sizes at least 30% alcohol
Anti-diarrhea meds - Imodium and Pepto-Bismol

Contact CJ Ross for more information on the 2010 Medical Mission to Haiti @ cjenkinsro@aol.com

2009 Haiti Medical Mission Photos

     

A word from CJ ROSS on mission posted in the June 2009 ASSISTER newsletter.

My Haitian Adventure                                                                 by Charlotte (C.J.) Ross

The word "adventure" has different meanings for different people.  For some it is simply trying something new.  Others find adventure in attempting to something that defies common sense; they do something risky even though most people would avoid it.    A good example is skydiving (you have to jump out of a perfectly good airplane).  Some might say another good example is intentionally travelling to Haiti.

I have personally dealt with this question and with the perplexed looks from those who remind me that it's too dangerous and that I must be nuts.  I think behind their comments is  the belief that we have enough poverty, hunger, crime, and healthcare needs right here at home Why waste resources on a little-known island country like Haiti?

I agree that these are real issues as we face a world economic crisis.  I can only say I've been called.  A call can be as simple as telling your children you love them each day, taking food to someone who is sick, or making room to allow a car to enter Red Mountain Expressway at rush hour.  Sometimes a call can become a vocation of ministry-in overseas missions or in organizations that serve the homeless, the hungry, the elderly, and drug addicts.  Most of us fall somewhere in between these parameters. 

We are all called to love our neighbors.  Some need to be close to home and others need to go out into the world.  God does not place a higher value on one than the other; he just says, "Go."  We respond to what feels right at the time, sometimes with our hearts.

So why Haiti?  Now that I've gone twice, I can speak to my own experiences-caring for ill infants and their malnourished mothers, hearing the cries of a newborn delivered on the warm cement floor of our clinic, watching the children of the villages walk long distances to get water from a well for their families and hearing God's praises sung in Creole.

But this ministry is about much more than my own experiences.  It is about God working through the generous hearts of a faith community like St. Francis, allowing the least of these to have opportunities to experience his love in receiving health care, nutrition and education.  My experiences left no doubt that the Holy Spirit led me there. 

Over the years I've become aware of my ability to place obstacles against that "knock on the door" till the cows come home.  Maybe eventually God says, "Enough already."  All I know is that the door of my heart opens wide and I jump out to find new work and new joy in his world, and in another new adventure.

Wishing you a good flight,

Charlotte

FRESH NEWS -  POST MEDICAL MISSION :

Dear Commission Members,

I just received a call for C.J. Ross, team leader for our medical mission presently in Haiti.  She reported that their mountain-top adventure (Alabama's first camping mission) went well and they are safely off the mountain.  They hiked in to Crochu on Tuesday and made it off the mountain late this afternoon.  All are well although the hike in was accomplished with some difficulty.   I believe she told me that they saw some 400 patients while there.  One highlight:  They delivered a baby.  Mom arrived in labor.  Villagers carried her in on a bed from her home an hour's walk away.  Baby and mom were doing well.  The team will be back in the States Saturday night.  Please continue to keep them in your payers.

Peace,

Dave     -----------------------------------------------------------

A THANK YOU FROM HAITI - POST MEDICAL MISSION:

Dear CJ

We would like to thank you for all your team have been done for many sick people in Haiti. I saw some they are feel much better, like the ladie with the infection in the hand at Gorman, she went to the hospital, as the dotor refered her. Thank you again for the milk you brought for the children in the nutrition program, for the condom and for everything. Please  send to everyone our love, and prayers.

God bless you

Carmel and pere VAl


--- En date de : Mer 4.3.09, CJenkinsro@aol.com CJenkinsro@aol.com 

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Preparing for the 2009 Medical Mission with Photos of the 2008 Mission

C.J. Ross will lead the February 2009 Medical Mission team to Haiti for our Diocese. Your help and contributions can make a difference.  During the Feburary 8th church services, CJ announced that The No Cook Wednesday raised over $2000 dollars for the mission and she gave thanks to everyone for their generosity.  If you missed that opportunity and would like to contribute, please make checks payable to St. Francis and note Haiti Medical Mission on the memo line. 

You can also make a difference by donating supplies:

February - Support our Haiti Medical Mission  - For more information on donations and supplies please Contact CJ Ross at cjenkinsro@aol.com.   
Supply List Needed for 4 clinics: 
Pre-natal vitamins (Sam's is good),                     Children's chewable vitamins
                                                                                                 (not gummy ones)
Children's Motrin and Tylenol                                 Liquid infant vitamins
Pump hand sanitizers                                              One a day vitamins with iron
Sterile cotton q-tips, Eye wash kits,                       Bags of Cotton Balls
Band-Aids, 4x4 gauze pads                                    Triple Antibiotic Cream
Sandwich bags, 1&2gallon zip lock bags,              Clorox Wipes
Anti-diarrhea medicine                                          Tooth Brushes
Powdered Milk (please contact CJ Ross regarding powdered milk). 

The Episcopal Diocese of Alabama has a companion relationship with the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti. Working with the Rev. Fritz Valdema, priest in-charge of the Croix des Bouquets parish which consists of six geographically separated churches, we send mission teams on a regular basis to Haiti to provide much needed medical care and supplies. Our own C.J. Ross participated in a trip to Haiti with our Diocesan team 2008 and was team leader for the recent 2009 trip.  For more information on donations and supplies please Contact CJ Ross at cjenkinsro@aol.com.