Pharmacist and Haiti medical missionary Ed Monroe

June 29, 12:28 PMCharlotte Christianity ExaminerBob Diamond

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What’s Ed up to now?

I have known Ed Monroe for a couple of years.  We became aware of each other because we are both pharmacists and we both have a heart for Haiti’s incredible people.   I first found out about Ed at  Friends of the Children of Haiti 

Ed has been retired for a couple of years, but his primary focus has been on Haiti for a long time.

Ed lives near Chicago in Peoria, Illinois. He puts together several medical missions to Haiti every year. Ed can always use more volunteer missionaries with all kinds of skills and backgrounds. He can always use more money also. 

If you live near Chicago and are interested in helping Ed out you can contact him on his web site or you can email him at edmonroe316@msn.com   

You can learn more about Ed and his missions to Haiti by following him by clicking on this link to his blog at  What's Ed Up to Now

Here’s a copy of an entry in Ed’s blog:

“We survived the trip over the mountains from the clinic to the PAP airport although there was some scares along the way. As of today, Monday, I have heard from some of the team and all are at home or will soon be home safely.”

”On Thursday we finished seeing patients sometime around noon. Our team saw a record 2212 patients on this mission. I am so very proud of all of the team members. After lunch, some of the team headed for the beach while a few of us readied the clinic for inventory and clean up. When the team returned they worked hard and completed the inventory. I should tell you that we had extra items to count. You may recall that Lynn and I had an appointment at a nearby school on Tuesday to pick up supplies. That turned out to be 4 truckloads of merchandise. We retrieved one on Tuesday and one on Wednesday and Boyer finished the work for us so we could get back to seeing patients. Some of the boxes were infested with termites. I managed to get bitten by a spider as I carried some boxes. I have the list of supplies so that our medical supply people can go over them. I did discover a full case of pints of cough syrup with good dating and also some melatonin spray that made Dr Jo pleased. On Wednesday, I had a visit from my friend Nego Pierre Louis. He is a young youth minister in Haiti. He introduced me to Ellen, his Canadian bride to be. They were married on Friday so I could not attend the wedding. That would have been fun.

I did manage to drop my laptop on Thursday night as I was inputting the pharmacy inventory data and lost about 1 hour’s time. It is okay and I brought the hard copies home to key here at my desk.”

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Are you interested in Helping out with missions work?

If you live in the Charlotte, North Carolina area and also have a heart for the people and would like to get involved in missions to Haiti or in other South America countries you can contact the Providence Rd Church of Christ missions team at: http://prcoc-missions.com/contactus.aspx or at PRCOC.org