Haiti Mission Work

Westminster makes yearly trips to Haiti to work with Family Health Ministries. Jobs vary from mountainside construction, teaching in the schools to holding health clinics. In the poorest country in the western hemisphere, hope is being provided through projects that emphasize self-help and self-sufficiency. Throughout the week volunteers work side by side with the Haitians.

Haiti Earthquake Relief

Prayer for Haiti

Update from the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) on how our denomination is responding to this crisis

Update on Missionary Sharyn Babe

(updated 2/10/2010)

Sharyn Babe, a PC(USA) mission worker in Port-au-Prince, was injured in the quake and is recovering in a Fort Lauderdale, Florida, hospital. Her husband, Rodney, has left Haiti and has joined her in Florida. Sharyn is in rehab.

Family Health Ministries updates. Westminster has partnered with FHM in recent years by sending mission teams and financial resources to communities in Haiti

Longtime PCUSA partner hospital destroyed by earthquake

How to Help

Financial resources are in great need at this time. You may write a check to Westminster Presbyterian Church and note that the contribution is for “Haiti Earthquake Relief.” All such contributions will be forwarded to Presbyterian Disaster Assistance for the benefit of Haiti earthquake relief efforts.

Alternatively, you may click to donate directly to the PC (USA) Disaster Assistance Fund for Haiti.

2009 Mission Trip Recap

Haiti, by the numbers.

Residents count on the care one team offers.

By Butch Sherrill

Almost anyone will tell you that numbers tell the whole story.

Bur for the purpose of reporting on the most recent Haiti mission trip, some numbers my help describe what is involved when 11 Westminster travelers join with five Family Health Ministries staff members to conduct a medical clinic in the town of Leogane. Sixteen team members -- plus driver and guide -- piling into a 15-passenger van for a 90-minute bus ride created a unique bonding experience. Read the cover story in the 2009 WestminsterLife November edition.

2008 Mission Trip Recap

In October 2008 members of Westminster went to work in the medical clinic in Fondwa, Haiti. The clinic is under the direction of Family Health Ministries, a Durham, NC, based organization with much experience in Haiti. Dr. Dave Walmer, a physician on staff at Duke University and his wife Kathy, a nurse practioner began this ministry more than 20 years ago.

Work continues on the Leogane Clinic in Haiti. Westminster donated money in celebration of Rev. Cindy Higgins' ministry for medical equipment and supplies. The clinic is expected to open this month.

Christ's love buoys busy Haitian clinic during October mission trip

by Meredith Barkley

Our medical clinic opened on a bright Monday morning high in the rugged mountains of southern Haiti.

Patients began arriving in the community of Fondwa well before dawn. Many had walked miles over the steep terrain. One 82-year-old woman with high blood pressure and body aches had gotten up at 3 a.m. and walked three hours. She, like the rest, was eager to see a doctor.

By 8:30 there was chaos. Several hundred people jammed onto the veranda in front of the locked clinic door. They hollered at each other and struggled to move in closer.

We tried to push through so we could get inside and set up. No luck. Finally one of the Haitians stepped in front of us and took control. He yelled over the din, ordering people aside long enough for us to squeeze through. Read the full story

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