The team has departed KC and arrived in Washington. Tomorrow, they will head out again and sail (okay, fly) across the ocean. Prayers for safe travels (and hopefully) well rested travels!
Reflexiones de Santiago: Blog Seven: Today, was our last day at work: 376 patients through triage, 100.5 tooth extractions, 1100 prescriptions, and thousands of smiles. To God Be The Glory. But, we also need to thank our leaders; Jim and Jon. What great leaders! They have been there for us all week and worked harder […]
Reflexiones de Santiago: Blog Six: Today, a Resurrection team member with Agua Viva International visited another Methodist Church in Quisqualagua, Honduras. The community of 500 people surrounding the Church, has never had clean drinking water. The Director of Programs for the Honduras United Methodist Church, Rigo, met with Agua Viva and the President of the […]
The city up the mountain from El Obraje is called Las Minas. (The Mines) The two teachers we met were named: Gilma Cárcamo and Merlyn Valladares. The name of the school is Jose Mamilio Rodas Escuela. The school has 35 children. They meet five days a week from 8:00 am to 3:00 pm. They are […]
Reflexiones de Santiago: Blog Four: Created in Christ Jesus to do good Works Our clinic is fully operational. Our dedicated volunteers are seeing patients as fast as they can. There were long lines when we arrived and long lines persisted well into the afternoon. Our day consisted of a menagerie of diagnoses, prescriptions, dental procedures, […]
Reflexiones de Santiago: Day Two, Great is Thy Faithfulness Today, Sunday, we volunteers set up the clinic in El Obraje, Honduras, where we will provide desperately needed medical and dental attention to hundreds of children and adults. Our leader, Jim, started our week-long efforts by quoting a wonderful bible verse from Lamentations 3:22-23: “Because of […]
Reflexiones de Santiago: First Stop; Breaking Bread Together One of our recent sermon series by Pastor Hamilton at the Church of the Resurrection was about the Lord’s Prayer. The Honduras Mission Team was mindful of this “prayer of the ages” as we started our week in Honduras by breaking bread together. Give us this day […]
The team has arrived and is currently in Tegucigalpa eating a late lunch. Afterwards, they will take the 1.5 to 2 hour drive to Danli. Everyone is doing great and are excited to be in Honduras. We will update the blog when we here more from them. Until then, no news is good news and […]
Access to wifi has been very difficult. We are getting occasional texts with information, so please excuse the brevity. Upon return, we hope to add more details, so you can see exactly what the team has been doing this week! As they say, pictures are worth 1000 words, so hopefully these pictures will give you […]
Alo! (That's Haitian Creole for "Hello") The Haiti Team has arrived safely and the outpatient medical clinic up and running. Mary-Beth tells us that the first day in clinic, they saw 80 people. Problems included lots of hypertension and diabetes. Community Health Evangelists have been helping out in the clinic as well, teaching Haiti residents […]
Today we returned to the United States. Even though we are all glad to see our families, our pets, and our own private bathrooms, the team is quieter and in deep introspection about the week. Home has a different cadence than Honduras. Cell phones coming alive with text messages, voicemails, emails, etc. Driving is sedate […]
To be very direct today, we did it! After an early start, our team worked like clockwork and we completed the last of the cement in under 2 hours. The weather was cool, the pace was steady, and everyone had a renewed sense of duty. Below you can see the final troweling of the floor. […]
