More Updates from Honduras

Okay, the numbers are in for Tuesday and Wednesday.

On Tuesday - the Day of the Deluge - our clinic saw 143 patients. Today, in the remote mountain village of Santa Fe (really, there's a village in Honduras by that name) our clinic medical providers saw 159 patients. Needless to say, it has been a busy week. But, it has not been all about the medical clinic.

Each day when the medical clinic sets up shop, we provide activities for the children who come to the clinic. Our HEY Team, (because that is how the children address the workers: "Hey!" "Hey!"), do crafts, sing Bible songs, tell Bible stories, play musical chairs and simply love these children unconditionally. It is often thankless duty but one that is preformed with great passion and love for the children. Our clinic process would not go as smoothly without the key servant volunteers.

The other ministry team is our construction team, which is actually divided into two groups. One group has been working each day at the orphanage run by Pan-American Health Services and is helping to build a new facility where the babies and toddlers will live. It's pouring concrete walls the old fashion way - shoveling lots of sand and gravel, using wheel-barrows and buckets to pour the concrete. I spent the day working on this site today and I can assure you that I will feel it tomorrow morning.

The other construction project is building a 14 ft X 20 ft one room home for a family in the village of Rio Lindo. This family of five purchased a meager home and soon discovered that it was infested with snacks, scorpions and spiders. Certainly not a fit place to raise a family with three children under the age of five. We have the opportunity to change their lives by building a simple structure. What's more, members of their church family are contributing a considerable amount of sweat equity in the process, so this has been a meaningful event for their entire congregation.

Pictures are coming in the next update.

Soli Deo gloria.

Michael