Patient Care
Our new year has started out great. All of our clinics are back in action and we had a successful General and GYN surgery group despite some significant weather delays. We are grateful for the protection God has provided during our surgery weeks.
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Childhood Nutrition Program
Our Nutrition Program is going strong with classes and home visits to encourage the moms to prepare healthy meals for their children. We have also been working to get all of the families a water filter which limits the number of diarrheal illnesses in the home.
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| Mom and baby proud of their new filter. |
Our evangelism teams have also been busy with home visits and pastoral counseling and baptisms. It makes us content to see God work through our small efforts to bring new Christians to the kingdom. Sometimes we send our patients for pastoral counseling and prayer and they spend over an hour in the session and ask for followup time. Others decide not to stay for prayer. We continue to invite them and encourage them to tend to their spiritual health as well as their physical health. And the Spirit convicts and guides.
This year we had our fourth graduation of the Pastoral Counseling Course that our evangelist Gaspar Chan leads. This is exciting to see how many have been trained and ready to minister in their churches and communities.
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| Francisco putting on Christ in baptism. |
Thank you for your support and love! Here are some prayer requests for this month.
1. Pray for God to bring more physicians and dentists, and to help us retain the ones we have until then. This is an ongoing need and we trust that God will provide for the future of this ministry.
2. Pray for God to provide administrativly gifted staff--either U.S. missionary types or local Guatemalans. It will take time to raise up and adequately train future on-site leadership. And it is stressful to train people and worry about them wanting to move on or not want to take on the responsibility in the end. We are just thinking about the future and how to leave this ministry in good hands.
3. Pray for our large staff, that we will be united in vision and desire to grow the kindom of God through our patient interactions.
