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Good Shepherd Mission Haiti

January 6th – 14th, 2012

Our Global Mission Team seeks to create connections between those who can give and those who need to receive, recognizing that the givers will be changed in the process.

Read the Haiti Mission Trip Brochure

Haiti Medical Mission Trip Report


Our Mission Team ran a Medical Clinic for 4 solid days at CEDAN Mission with Pastor Henri. We saw over 550 patients, and spread God's love with all we met. We had a great team and formed lasting relationships with each other and the people we met. To God be the Glory!

More Mission Haiti 2012 Videos:


This video shows footage from our May 2011 trip to CEDAN Mission in Cap Haitian Haiti. This has helpful information for those wanting to go on the Jan 6-14, 2012 Medical Mission trip.

Mission Haiti Description:

The Global Mission Team at Good Shepherd Lutheran church is organizing a medical mission trip to Haiti.  We will be working with Pastor Henri Claude Robert and his CEDAN Missions (www.cedanmission.org).  The mission supports several schools, a seminary, a food bank and a medical clinic.

Our church became acquainted with Pastor Henri when he visited our Vacation Bible School in the summer of 2010.  Pastor Henri spoke passionately about his country’s many needs, and he touched our hearts!

Good Shepherd has been supporting Pastor Henri and CEDAN with Global Benevolence dollars, and helped provide clean water systems for families in his area.  Now it is time to expand our support for his mission and help provide medical services at his clinic.

Our team of 20-24 (max) will be staying at the Hotel Mont Joli in Cap Haitien, and driving each day to the CEDAN Compound in Acul de Nord in northern Haiti.   We will provide medical and pharmacy services each day.  On average, the clinic will treat between 200 to 250 people a day and provide food for roughly 500 people.  Many of the patients we see will have walked miles to receive this care.  Most families live in small wood or corrugated metal structures that offer little protection from the elements (especially during Hurricane season) and most have no running water or electricity.) 

The travel costs will be approximately $2000, and participants will either be expected to cover these costs personally, or send out letters of support to family and friends beyond the Good Shepherd community.  Good Shepherd will help provide some benevolence dollars for the food and medical supplies for the clinic, and you may be asked to participate in a fundraiser to cover some additional costs.

(Note: Travel clinic vaccinations and malaria medications are at an additional cost, and may or may not be covered by your medical insurance; however, they are highly recommended before travel to Haiti).

We are also working on opportunities to visit school children and potentially do a few feedings.Prior to the trip we will have Team Building meetings to get to know each other, engage in short-term missions training and Bible Study.  We request your participation if you live locally.

Here are the kind of people we are looking to join us on this trip:

  1. Five to Seven doctors/nurses/pharmacists willing to use their medical expertise in the clinic.
  2. People who will depend on their relationship with Jesus Christ throughout the trip. 
  3. People who have a heart to serve the poor.
  4. People who are willing to listen, learn and bring back the experience to others in our community.

Haiti is a challenging place to visit.  If you have significant physical restrictions this may not be the trip for you.  Perhaps you can consider helping in other ways.

While the trip is open to the whole congregation, space is limited.  We need to make sure we have the right mix of medical personnel and assistants on the trip.  Prior to filling out an application we ask that you do two things:  prayerfully consider going on this trip, and consider your ability to cope with adversity and hardship in a difficult area of the world.  All applications will be prayerfully reviewed by our Global Mission Team leaders and the pastoral team at GSLC will give the final approval on all applications.

Please fill out the application and return it to Pastor Ryan Warne-McGraw atGood Shepherd Lutheran Church, 4800 Irvine Center Drive, Irvine CA 92604.

Questions?  Call: Pastor Ryan at church 949-552-1918, 949-400-2109 (cell) or Nancy Perry at 714-920-1415 (cell)

May God use us to be a blessing to others,

Pastor Ryan Warne-McGrawand the Global Mission Team of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church

Sawyer Water Systems for Haiti