The dental team is up and running. They worked diligently on patients all day long for three days. They each had different jobs to do. We had three who have been serveral years, David, Rich and Stuart, the team leader. There were two rookies on board who were only rookies for about five minutes, Don and Carol. They fell in and went to work on what gift had called them to do, dental. Wendy, Frances(bilingual) Alice(bilingual), Lawrence(bilingual) and Stephen all were assistants who worked very hard beside the five dentists. Steve who has been several times cleaned instruments all week. He is in the construction business back home and he got out of his comfort zone and allowed God to use him with a dental team. Some of these people had never worked together before. Amazing how when you have a common bond, Jesus Christ, you can do anything, Phillippins 4:13 They had a rythmn that was amazing. At each station there was a translator/assistant and sometimes the translator was working between two stations. The lines were never ending but they perservered until every patient could be seen. They each took each patient and worked on the patient as if they were the only one. They were gentle, kind and genuine with each individual who sat in there chair. Mike and I saw God at work in a mighty way this week. To God be the praise and the glory for all He has done through the dental team He sent to Honduras.
On February 14, 2010 we picked up our first dental team. We were meeting a Honduran dentist named Aleyda at the airport as well. We found Aleyda and got the rest of the team and off we went to the house for lunch then off to Choluteca. They had so many pieces of luggage and some blue boxes. I wandered what was in those blue boxes. Well, I was to soon find out. This team got up at 5:30, got ready, had breakfast and a devotional and on the road by 7:30. As you can see in one of the pictures we came across a traffice jam. We had to wait for the oxen and cows to get out of the way. Almost as bad as the belt line in Raleigh. We headed to the church that was turned into a dental clinic for three days. They turned the Sunday School Class rooms into dental offices. I spoke of Aleyda earlier. She was a God send. She was in the first room(lower right) and she would access the patient to see what their needs were. She was given one of the blue dental chairs to work from but never used it. She sat them in the aqua plastic chair and if it was a simple tooth to be pulled she would do it right there on the spot. She was so amazing. So the blue boxes were where the dental chairs were stored. We are starting a week full of many blessings. But we could not have done it without our dear sweet Aleyda. We were so impressed with her that Mike and I have found our dentist in Honduras. She was as sweet as she was hard working. Aleyda was the receptionist, the dentist and an encourager for her people because she was the first face they saw as they went through their process of the dental clinic. I could not stay in her room too long because she would pull a tooth before I realized what she was doing. God sent a very special young lady to help our first dental team here in Honduras. Our dental team could not talk enough about her and she also shared how grateful she was for the Americans to come here to help her people. Francis in the upper right corner talking to the pastor is from Tegus. So she was so excited to be back in her country helping serve her people. The middle top picture impresses me because all three of them are rookies. They do not look like rookies to me. They got right in and set up as if they were working out of Jacksonville. Before they started working we all went into the sanuactury so the pastor could open up the dental ministry in prayer. To God be the glory. 
