The centerpiece of an improved primary health care system for the people of the whole Mombin Crochu region is clearly the mission and facilities of the Covenant Hospital. No longer is it a small-town dispensary staffed by temporary doctors and occasional US medical teams, but is to be a regional medical center, staffed by a committed team of Haitian health professionals and the hub of a system to provide health education and preventive medicine more effectively and to greater numbers of isolated rural Haitians than has been possible in the past.

The task for the Network of US congregations supporting Covenant Hospital is not greatly different from what it has been. Because of the enhanced scope of the hospital’s mission, our job takes on even larger significance for the Haitian people.

We are being asked by our partners to continue to do the things we do best. Hard work is still needed by volunteer mission teams in the areas of primary patient care, surgery, dentistry, teaching of health workers, sanitation improvements, upgrades to the hospital’s facility, power, water, and communications systems, laboratory and x-ray, vehicle maintenance, and others. We are to carry on as advisors to the hospital administration and the Medical Director, and as requested, to donate supplies and medications to the clinical programs for patient care whenever possible.

Most importantly, the Network is being asked to provide the financial support necessary for us to participate with our Haitian partners in operating Covenant Hospital. This is the message to the Haitian people of the love and action of Jesus Christ, alive today in their troubled and needy world.

Medical Benevolence Foundation and the Covenant Hospital Network are deeply grateful for the generous donations and pledges for Covenant Hospital that have been received so far. This provides encouragement and hope that many more supporting congregations and individuals will feel called to give liberally of our substance for this healing mission to the people of rural Haiti.