A five-person medical team from Mission Waco worked alongside Haitian health care professionals to serve 360 patients in three days recently at a newly dedicated clinic in Ferrier, Haiti.
Volunteers from Mission Waco joined a Haitian medical team and area residents in dedicating a new clinic in Ferrier, Haiti. It was built on the same site where a Christian volunteer began offering health care to her neighbors 28 years ago.
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The nine-room clinic—with one room and a pharmacy furnished—was built on the same ground where Paulan Pierre began treating patients in a two-room building behind her home 28 years ago, providing the only health care for a village of 13,000 people.
Her son, Zenas Pierre, now serves as pastor of Beraca Church and continues his mother’s dream of offering church-based health care for his neighbors.
In addition to medical care, the team shared the gospel and a meal of beans and rice with people in the village.
“As we prayed that last day in English, Spanish and Creole, after a very productive two-hour discussion about how to move the church-based clinic to include prevention and community-based health education, I was personally moved how God had been orchestrating this amazing healing effort through the years,” said Jimmy Dorrell, executive director of Mission Waco.
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