Kentucky Disaster Relief medical team

This is the third of several guest posts from the Kentucky Baptist Convention’s disaster relief team in Haiti. The 10-member medical team arrived in Port-au-Prince Monday and began ministering through a makeshift hospital on the edge of a tent city on Tuesday. In this post, Butch Vernon, pastor of Thoroughbred Community Church in Nicholasville and the chaplain for the group, shares about the group’s second day of work.

Click here to get more of the big picture view of Southern Baptist Disaster Relief work in Haiti from Baptist Press.

Just wanted to give a quick update. It’s getting late quick and we had a really long day and tomorrow will be the same.

Doctors minister to Haitian gunshot victim

We were in the hospital across from the national capitol building today. It was amazing. Probably had 500 patients through the whole day. Had one guy brought in on a wheel barrow who had been shot in the head. He was brought to the hospital in a pick up truck and the hospital basically said there was no chance. Pray for his family. We don’t know any of the situation.

We didn’t see a lot of the tragic things from the early days after the quake but it looks like there could be a real possibility of some serious health issues with these folks. Please pray that the Lord would stop any outbreaks.

It looks like we are going to be in the same place for the rest of the week. This should be great as it will allow us to continue to build relationships with the staff and other support personnel.

Continue to thank God for this team. They are incredible. We put some people in some situations today that were waaaaaaay out of their comfort zone but each one of them sailed through with flying colors praising the Lord for the opportunity  to be stretched.

The Florida Baptist Convention and the Confraternite Missionnaire Baptiste dHaiti (CMBH) has really taken good care of us. We sleep in a.c. each night and we are eating very well.