The start of the Dental Clinic

Our dental team from Jacksonville, NC went out on Sunday to access the two churches they would be working out of, La Gera Blanco and Santa Cruz de Moreovia both in the Choluteca area. La Gera Blanco had cleaned up their Sunday School Classrooms so beautifully and was working on getting electricity provided for the dental team. In Santa Cruz they found they would be working out of the sanctuary. They got up early on Monday and headed out to get ready for a day of many blessings. This team always amazes me with all they have to do just to see one patient. They were provided a generator to help run the equipment needed to clean, fill, repair and do the extractions. We had told the church before their arriving there were two dentists and eight assistances, dental hygienst to clean the teeth, several translators, two people to clean the instruments and of course Mrs. Alice brought a new twist to the ministry, bible study for the ladies(more of that later). Well we decided only 30 patients a day until the two dentist could feel out the situation. They were able to pray with and assist 4o plus patients each day. God is good all the time. During our "God moments" one night Carl, team leader and dentist shared he and Francis were getting ready to pray with one of the patients when he got up turned around and starting praying for the dental team and what they were doing for his community. Carl shared how he came to bless the people and in turn he is the one who received the blessings. Each day they were able to see 40 plus patients and saved alot teeth through filling teeth instead of pulling them. Of course Todd, other dentist wins the prize for pulling out the most teeth. He pulled eleven teeth out of one older man's mouth. Todd also had an opportunity with a little girl who had four teeth pulled and wasn't very happy until in the back of the church the group waiting along with Mrs. Alice started singing praise music and she calmed down for a short while. How beautiful is God and His work even with a dental clinic which is meeting inside His House. Susan brought a puppet named Julio who taught the people and children how to properly brush their teeth. The people so enjoyed Julio and how much he taught them about the care of their teeth. One afternoon one of the air compressors broke down because it got too hot so Mike and Susan and Pastor G got to working on it and got it back and running. This team had so many talented people serving the people of Honduras. They worked with such unity on getting set up and performing all the many different tasks it takes to perform the dental work out of a church in Honduras. To God be the glory for a job well done First Baptist Church, Jacksonville.