{"id":111,"date":"2012-01-15T22:51:30","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T04:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/justmercy.org\/WordPress\/?p=111"},"modified":"2012-06-10T23:21:40","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T04:21:40","slug":"dr-suarez-and-adrienne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justmercy.org\/WordPress\/?p=111","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Suarez and Adrienne"},"content":{"rendered":"

11th Haiti Trip – Vol. III<\/p>\n

We wanted to share with you some personal stories from the 11th\u00a0Haiti Trip that we didn\u2019t cover in the last two updates. \u00a0In October, Bill met Dr. Alfredo Suarez, a 70 year old Columbian doctor who currently lives in Georgia. \u00a0Dr. Suarez\u2019 mission is to help the most helpless people he can find.\u00a0 His specialty is infectious tropical diseases but he has extensive experience in treating people for all kinds of things all over the world.<\/p>\n

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Bill with Dr. Suarez in the mountains<\/p><\/div>\n

Dr. Suarez made his first medical mission trip with\u00a0JUST MERCY\u00a0to the mountains in October.\u00a0 Bill was amazed at Dr. Suarez\u2019 energy and dedication to helping people who had no other medical care.\u00a0 He would work all day and when everyone else was exhausted, Dr. Suarez would still want to continue seeing patients.<\/p>\n

In December, they made another medical mission to the mountains.\u00a0 Dr. Suarez saw hundreds of people and never lost his caring and compassionate demeanor.\u00a0 He began to talk with us about being our medical director and we started making extensive plans for a more permanent medical clinic in the mountains with Dr. Suarez planning on spending 4 days every two weeks at our mountain clinic with the rest of his time working at clinics in Fonds-Parisien.<\/p>\n

Dr. Suarez returned to the states in Dec. with plans to return to Haiti the middle of January but unfortunately just found out that he needs surgery for a carcinoma.\u00a0 Not only is this very difficult for Dr. Suarez, but it is also a major setback to his and our hopes and dreams to bless the mountain people of Haiti.\u00a0 Please be in prayer for Dr. Suarez health.\u00a0 He has blessed our lives with his dedication, love for Jesus, and enthusiasm for serving the people of Haiti.\u00a0 All of Dr. Suarez\u2019 e-mails start with \u201cHallelujah\u201d, including the one telling us of his cancer.<\/p>\n

A slideshow of the medical mission trips has been posted on YouTube.\u00a0It is called Working With the Great Physician you can go to it here -><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0Working with the Great Physician<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0We hope you\u2019ll watch it and understand a little more how difficult but rewarding it is to take medical care to the mountain people.<\/p>\n

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Bill with Adrienne and the Proclaimer<\/p><\/div>\n

At Dr. Suarez\u2019 clinic in October, a young crippled woman, Adrienne, was brought in to see him.\u00a0 Her body is twisted.\u00a0 She can stand briefly but can barely walk.\u00a0\u00a0 She lives on the side of a mountain near Pensek where a flat place has been carved out of the steep mountainside and two huts have been built.<\/p>\n

Bill\u2019s heart was touched meeting Adrienne.\u00a0 When he returned to Fonds-Parisien, he got some things together in a back pack for her, things like a toothbrush, comb, a JUST MERCY T-shirt, and some other items along with a Proclaimer, a solar powered audio \u201cradio\u201d that speaks the Bible in Creole.\u00a0 He sent these things back up to her with a Haitian friend, asking that she play the Proclaimer for her neighbors.<\/p>\n

The next time Bill went to the mountains in December with Dr. Suarez, he started down the steep trail to where Adrienne lived.\u00a0 She did not know he was coming.\u00a0 As he got closer to her home he could hear the Proclaimer playing.<\/p>\n

Since she is illiterate, she could not read the menu to find specific books of the Bible so Bill had an interpreter teach her how to find the gospels.\u00a0 He asked her to listen to the gospel of John, then the other gospels, and then the gospel of John again.\u00a0 He told her the next time he came to see her he wanted to talk with her about the story of Jesus.<\/p>\n

On Jan. 1st, Bill shared with the folks at a small church that helps us here in Missouri.\u00a0 A visitor there was touched by Adrienne\u2019s story and ordered five more Proclaimers for us!!\u00a0 When Faith Comes By Hearing notified us of the order, they also told us that they would be donating two more along with the order so we will be receiving seven more Proclaimers!<\/p>\n

We are so excited about this and grateful to our new friend!\u00a0 The people in the mountains love to come and listen to the Proclaimers.\u00a0 We need to find reliable people in the mountains to take them, keep them charged, and play them for their neighbors.\u00a0 This could be a major blessing to these folks.\u00a0 Please pray that God\u2019s word will open hearts and touch lives as only He can.<\/p>\n

Bill returned to Haiti on Jan. 5th\u00a0and Hannah and I came on Jan. 12th.\u00a0 I\u2019ll get an update on this trip out soon.\u00a0 Please keep us in your prayers.\u00a0 Thank you for all the love and support you have given us.\u00a0 We are blessed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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