Xejox and Chuchuca Visit

Yesterday, Thursday, we went to visit a small mountain community called Xejox. The people of this village have been asking us for quite some time to come and host some clinics as there is much need and they are pretty remote to any larger towns with health clinics, especially during the rainy season. As we have an extra group coming in October and the rains should have reduced a little by then, we went to schedule a clinic for October. Drive time was not as bad as we thought - about 2 hours from Santa Cruz where the team will be based - maybe a little longer if there is rain. Most of the way had pretty good roads, but as you take the road to the village, we can see how it could get pretty muddy. The good news is the road is not right on the cliffs. :)

As you can see, this is a simple adobe building and these are a couple of the church leaders, Pedro and Andres. The exicting part about this community is that even though they are about 1 hour driving from the bigger town, the church is in this area has over 150 members plus children and visitors. There are actually 2 churches now, one on each side of the valley so that everyone does not have to walk so far. There is one church in Xejox (above) and one church in Chuchuca. These 150 members + represent about 50% of the entire community!

This is a picture with a view from the church in Xejox. The small white speck is the church in Chuchuca and I have a zoomed view of the church below.

Due to the distance and the possible large clinics we will hold clinic in this area for 2 days on Oct 17 and Oct 18, so please be praying for a good turn out and that God will be glorified. This will allow for us to leave early and be back to Santa Cruz each day before 5pm.

God bless and have a wonderful day! Today we are off to Mactzul II to initiate a new clinic there.