Former Vandy star to lead Haitian medical mission trip

Source: wkrn.com --- Tuesday, October 11, 2016
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – A former Vanderbilt Basketball star plans to lead a medical mission trip to the Haitian town where the orphanage supported by his Middle Tennessee church was heavily damaged by Hurricane Matthew. “It was a very easy decision,” said Dr. Jeff Fosnes, who was a member of Vanderbilt’s famed “F Troop” teams in the mid-1970s before he became a family practitioner in Hickman and then Robertson County. “It’s a very special thing. I got involved three years ago. “ Since then, though his church Mt. Carmel Baptist, which supports the orphanage in Jeremie, Haiti, Dr. Fosnes has made two medical trips there with other members of his congregation. Now, he has been asked by Mt. Carmel’s mission team to lead a third trip to not only help the hurricane-stricken orphanage, but those in the Haitian town heavily damaged by the massive storm. “Professionally, this is the most rewarding thing I have done,” Fosnes told News 2. “It’s the right thing to do when you have been called to serve.” Fosnes, and Mt. Carmel’s mission director Mary Phil Illges, are planning to put together a team of other medical professionals to leave in two weeks for the Haitian town. Reporter Chris Bundgaard will have more on this story on News 2 at 4 and 6 p.m. ...

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