This is our first year since the pandemic to receive summer interns for our Medical Evangelism Training (MET) program. This program has been in existence since 1989 when the first team went to Honduras to work with Predisan ministry and Dr. Robert and Doris Clark. The following year, two teams went out--half to Honduras and half to Guatemala with Dr. Mike and Julie Kelly. Our very own Kemmel Dunham was part both classes in 1989 and 1990. I joined the team in 1990 to Guatemala where Kemmel and I met--on MET!
Since then, there have been between 8-12 college student come to Guatemala every summer to learn about health care and evangelism and foreign missions. When Covid came along, the MET program went the way of all of our other groups. But this year we are pleased to have 3 students with us again. Asiah Powers, John Howard Hassman and Will Grogan. They have been to language school for a week, had their orientation camping weekend and now will split their time between Chicaco in the Hospital Ezell area and Paxot II in the Clinica Caris area. Definitely some differences in cultures!
Most of our interns find out about our program through word of mouth from our former interns, visiting teams and promotional visits to campuses. So its a small team this time. But God has always used common people, weak people, and small armies to carry out his plans--we are excited to see what God will do with these three mighty servants!
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Asiah Powers, John Howard Hassman and Will Grogan our star interns!
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| Time at language school in Quetzaltenango |
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| We camped together for a weekend in the Sunday School room at the Church of Christ in Paxot II! |
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MET orientation--learning about language and culture and evangelism.
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| Juana graciously preparing meals for us during our orientation weekend. |
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| This is a tuj--a family sauna. Manuel and Juana who hosted our meals offered us an evening of sauna style bathing on Saturday night. |
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| Our morning view from the church terrace. |
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| Asiah's fan club at church. |
