We arrived on the 30th with Rosa sharing we need to call the hospital administrator. So Mike decided to go on over to the hospital with the translators while the team was settling into for the week ahead. When Mike and the translators arrived at the hospital he found Pastor Pedro and a family from his church. Two members of his church Freddy (Hollywood) and Ronny had been in a tragic motorcycle accident the day before. The tragedy of this story is the doctors and nurses at the hospital are on strike and not working. There was no one there to take care of Rony. Freddy had been taken to the hospital in Tegus. Mike immediately asked if there was somewhere else they could take Ronny to get him immediate attention. It looked as if his brain was swelling. Neither gentlemen were wearing a helmet. Ronny had been twenty four hours with out any medical care. There was a medical clinic opened with a doctor. They took Ronny over to the clinic to get him some relief.
On May 1, Tuesday we arrive at the church and saw no one. The members of the church were inside praying for Freddy and Ronny and preparing a campaign to go door to door collecting monies to help pay for their medical bills. The teenagers of the church were the ones preparing to go out door to door for their friends, Freddy and Ronny. Mike gathered the teenagers in the middle of the group with the money jar in the center and we laid hands on them and prayed for them as theywent out and collect the money needed to help their friends. What a beautiful time during a tragic time, a church family and communtity coming together for their brothers in Christ.
Mike never got to talk to the administrator until later in the evening. Our first concern was to find help for Ronny. I pray Ronny will heal and return to his old self soon. Freddy is improving slowly. God is good all the time.
"Those who wait on the Lord
Shall renew their strength;
They shall mount up with wings like eagles;
They shall run and not be weary,
They shall walk and not faint."
Isaiah 40:31
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