Medical Clinic

Bernie on January 1st, 2013

Starfish Ministries has now completed its 15th year of ministry in Haiti!  That means this is monthly newsletter #180.  I sometimes wonder if we’ll run out of material to share when it comes to the end of the month BUT it has not happened.  The fact is that God is at work in Haiti and [...]

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Philip on June 1st, 2012

Dear Friends,
Here are a few short updates on some of the things going on in Starfish Ministries:
University Team Mission Trips
A team of 12 from Washington State University joined us for two weeks in Haiti in May.  The team spent their mornings visiting schools where they would minister to the students through skits, testimonies, and songs.  [...]

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Bernie on April 2nd, 2012

Dear Friends,
A few months ago we began to build a house for a single mom in Tricotte.  She had been living in very poor conditions and had no means of bettering her living situation.  When Glenn and I, along with a team of four from First Reformed Church in Lynden, arrived in Haiti last Friday, [...]

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Bernie on February 1st, 2012

Dear Friends,
Greetings from Haiti!  Glenn, Doug, Doug’s dad Bob Jarvie and I have spent the past week in Haiti.  Doug stayed in Port-au-Prince to continue well drilling in that area with the help of his dad.  His goal is to complete three more wells before we return home on February 2, and as of today, [...]

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Bernie on December 1st, 2011

Dear Friends,
While I was in Haiti in October, Jonette, one our orphanage workers, came to see Daniel and me.  She asked if we could loan her some money to pay a nurse who was caring for her.  Two weeks before Jonette had been bitten by a dog while carrying some things on her head from [...]

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Philip on October 15th, 2010

The team from Grace Community Church in Auburn, Washington, met early this morning for a breakfast of pancakes made by Bernie (something you can only experience in Haiti).  After breakfast we set out for La Pointe, a two and a half hour trip north.  There is a hospital in La Pointe that is run by [...]

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Philip on October 12th, 2010

We arrived in Haiti on Sunday with a team of eight from Grace Community Church in Auburn, Washington.  After attending the evening service at Pastor Diogene’s Port-au-Prince church, we spend the night at Mephibosheth Children’s Home, an orphanage for handicapped children.  On Monday, we made the six-hour drive to Tricotte and joined the orphanage children [...]

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Bernie on May 19th, 2010

Last Saturday Pastor Alfred Paul, from the village of Fiervil in the mountains east of Tricotte, came to visit me.  He walked for three hours, having heard that we may be able to do an eye clinic.  He shared that he has many people in his church that struggle with their reading due to poor [...]

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Bernie on August 1st, 2007

Dear Friends,
It has been several years since we started looking toward building a medical clinic in the village of Tricotte.  We have purchased land and are presently in the plan drawing stage.    After Glenn did some preliminary drafting, we asked Dr Dave, who accompanied us along with his daughter, Tami, to Haiti last year for [...]

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Bernie on May 1st, 2007

Dear Friends,
Thank you for your prayers while we were in Haiti.  The well drilling team efforts were very successful.  Very seldom do we go to Haiti and accomplish all we had hoped to do, but this time our aim was to complete two wells and we did.  Glenn and Doug, along with Vince and Jason, [...]

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