Helping develop health care in Haiti is Randolph's mission
St. Louis Business Journal - by Tina DubuqueThrough a network of financial contributors, medical supply donors and industrial partners, Tim Randolph has built a ministry whose primary mission is providing medical and laboratory supplies, laboratory training, on-site and e-mail consultation, and free mass screening of patients in a country with no health-care system.
Randolph, 47, an assistant professor of clinical laboratory science at Saint Louis University's Doisy College of Health Sciences, began making annual medical trips to Haiti after his first visit in 1999. While on a men's retreat, he was approached about going there to help build a concrete block school in a remote section of southeast Haiti. With a team of 12, the project took two weeks.
"The construction project opened the door for me to form a bond with the people of Haiti," Randolph said. "I felt called to support, upgrade and expand the laboratory at Bethesda Hospital and wanted to change the way the staff used the laboratory services." Today, his annual medical mission trips have grown to include students and others interested in laboratory science.
To organize his efforts in Haiti, Randolph created Randolph World Ministries Inc. The majority of the services provided by Randolph World Ministries reach the people of Haiti through Bethesda Medical Clinic. It's a thriving clinic located in a small community called Vaudreuil, which is just outside the city of Cap-Haitien near the country's northern shore. It is owned and operated by OMS International (formerly Oriental Mission Society), a Christian missionary organization.
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