Lumiere Medical Ministries

Mission

“The mission of Lumiere is to serve the health needs of Haitian people in the name of Jesus Christ.” 

Purpose

Lumiere Medical Ministries designs and manages healthcare programs and provides money, manpower, material and management support to locally managed partner agencies to deliver healthcare of the highest sustainable quality to the greatest number of people.

Scope of Service

Lumiere Medical Ministries currently serves the people of Haiti and the communities in which they reside.

Definition of Terms

Healthcare Programs are educational and clinical activities enhancing the physical well being of individual patients and the general public.  Such programs are conducted in institutional and non-institutional settings.

Money is provided by grant funding for general operations and specific capital needs.

Manpower is provided in the form of short-term volunteer workers, with and without medical expertise, and through the recruitment of long-term medical and administrative staff for field programs.

Material is provided in the form of medical equipment, pharmaceuticals and other supplies enabling the delivery of healthcare services in the field.

Management support is provided through consulting services offered to national partners and the healthcare programs, for which they are responsible, enabling them to better plan, organize, lead and control such activities.

Partner Agencies are churches, para-church organizations and other entities (public and private) providing or promoting healthcare in the field.

Sustainability is the maintenance of healthcare services throughout the expected lifetime of a program by the application of reliable and available resources.