ORANGE PARK – Eury Lindor sits on a metal fold up chair in the upper left corner of her newly-opened market overlooking heaps of bagged rice, yucca root and porcelain vases. This is her market. Ask her though, and she’ll ignore the work she and her husband put into opening the shop because, to her view, God built this for her.

Eury’s Market, Orange Park’s only Haitian and Jamaican market, celebrated its first month in business in the strip mall at 1177 Park Ave. The shop sells fresh produce imported from Haiti, fresh plantains, yellow yams and dinner plate sized avocados.

“We sell for everybody, we have all nations coming here,” she said. “Is not only for island people, no, it’s not. We have something for all people. White people, Spanish people, everybody. We are welcoming and love to see everybody.”

The 1,950 square foot market has a little bit of everything. Lindor and her husband Fritz dedicated three quarters of the store to Haitian and Jamaican favorites such as watermelon sodas, powdered milk and fresh produce imported from Haiti. They dedicated the other quarter to purses, perfumes and hallowed porcelain vases and bowls.

They intend to add to their eclectic offerings soon. Once their scale passes inspections, the two will start to sell fresh meat, goat, chicken and Bacalhau, the Portuguese word for salted cod.

“I have some nice stuff when they come, so they see,” Eury said. “Nice things people don’t see outside like that, I carry them. You don’t find them like that. When you come to Eury’s, Eury has everything for you.”

Fritz said the key to keeping customers is to be neighborly and to welcome every customer, make them feel comfortable. He said his wife already does a great job of that.

Renovations on the space, which had been vacant for some time, began in March and proved to be a 15-hour job considering the two did most of the updates themselves.

“It wasn’t easy to do it. I should be in bed, because I’m tired. My bones are cracking,” said Fritz Lindor, with a laugh. “When we were fixing stuff I had to be here seven in the morning till 10 at night to fix things because I wanted to open.”

Eury works at Allegro Senior Living as a patient care assistant, Fritz, as a handyman and, in his spare time, an online preacher. His sermons stress the importance of family bonds and encourage youth to go to college, “be somebody,” Fritz said. They both live in Oakleaf and attend First Renaissance Baptist Church.

God plays a large role in their life. It’s clear from the first step into the market where a television hangs above playing sermons from well-known preachers. Eury, who was born in Haiti, met Fritz in a church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida 13 years ago. Four years later, they moved to Orange Park.

“My dad gave me residence, a green card,” Eury said. “I’m happy. I always say thank you God, I thank God and I’m happy. I can say it’s good to be here. I love Jacksonville, Orange Park.”

Even after 17 years away, undoubtedly her love of Haiti still resides in her. Over the counter, they sell phone cards to load minutes onto cell phones so Haitian Clay County residents can call their relatives in Haiti. Often times she has customers who come in to buy products just to ship them off to their relatives in Haiti, the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country.

Since the early 2010 earthquake, a cholera epidemic has killed roughly 10,000 people and infected more than 800,000 in Haiti. Officials traced the cholera epidemic to infected United Nations peacekeepers entering the country to provide relief after the disaster.

Eury and Fritz do what they can out of their small market. They donate food to the country and thank God for what he has given them.

“We just started, but business is OK, because everybody comes in,” Eury said. “We will be OK in the name of Jesus, because that’s the one person I trust is God. We didn’t open this business, God did. We believe in God and we know we will be a big market one day. Yes, in the name of Jesus. This is going to be a big one.”