On October 10 God blesses us with our other Hamlet church family, First Baptist. We are so grateful for medical teams to come to Honduras to give these folks special medical treatment. This is our second medical team this year. The evening they arrived they all jumped right in to get their meds organized and ready to go. After they finished organizing their meds they had Jose's wife's chicken tacos and devotional. Candi had the first devotional on working together as a team. We broke up into small groups and did an activity which require two people to come up with their favorite bible story and then drawing it together with each of your hands holding the pencil. She shared no matter what happens this week we need to work together as a team. The first morning the team headed to their first location El Tamboro, Choluteca, Honduras. They entered a community center where the clinic was to be held. This community does not have "baptist church building" per say. The people are the church. They meet outdoors under three extremely beautiful and grander mango trees. The team started the process of setting up and applying their devotional from the night before, working as a team. Within an hour and half they were up and running. Early on Nick saw a young man with a broke arm which had been broken for two weeks. He was loosing feeling in his fingers at this point. Nick and Nicole proceeded to treat the young man and put his arm back in place and put a caste on him. Everyone was able to sign his caste once they were finished. Ava and Candi were able to treat a lady with extreme velcourse veins. They could not get the stockings so they improvised and used ace bandages to wrap the ladies leg. There is one thing we can say about medical teams they know how to do their best with what materials they have to work with. We were so blessed this week to have Dr. Marvin and Dr. Jillda, a married couple with a two month old daughter assisting us. Their knowledge of the Honduran medicines and their compassion made it for an awesome week of medical treatment for their people. Stacy and Derek worked extremely hard at this location treaching the patients which included taking temperatures and blood pressures. Thank you to Orfilio and Hector our translators who assisted them. Thank you Maida, Egla and Dr Jillda who were translators for the doctors and the pharmacy. Eddie, Diana and Betty Lynn worked very hard in the pharmacy keeping the prescriptions filled. Reggie, team leader worked very hard keeping the patients moving along in the waiting room. What a undertaking when you have to use sign language and a big smile to communicate. Thank you Reggie for awesome crowd control. Also that week Nick, Nicole, Derek and Maida made home visits to the elderly folks in the village. There was one patient who was over 100 years old. Nick shared how this person had the sweetest spirit and was appreciative of them coming to make a home visit. The total patients seen in this community which was the first three days was 635. But the most important number was the 18 salvations during the medical clinic in El Taboro.
Thank you team for doing such an awesome job working as God's medical team.
"The whole earth is filled with awe at your wonders; where morning dawns and evening fades, you call forth songs of JOY." Psalm 65:8
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