Happy New Year! I love January and the reset it gives us like choosing a new Bible reading plan and making new health goals. This month we also moved to a different house after 20 years in the same place. We will miss the old one, but look forward to living on a different side of town. It's a faster walk to market so that will be easier.
Hospital Ezell
We are in our first week of surgery teams this week. General and GYN surgery is up and going. It's a big team of 48 Americans, plus Guatemalan staff but most are repeat visitors and already into the swing of things. We frequently remind each other, "have you prayed about it?" when things get complicated. God is faithful to guide us and provide. Be praying for a good week, safe surgery and many lives touched by God's healing.
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| Surgery list for today |
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| Post op recovery |
Clinica Caris and Ezell
We have been back at community and central clinics for a week now. Things are going well and we are seeing lots of respiratory infections. We were informed by the Ministry of Health that there is a Measles outbreak an hour from our Hospital Ezell. The 5 cases were all at church activity of over 2000 people in mid December. All of our staff will be getting vaccine boosters sometime this week by the health department.
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| Staff waiting for measles shots |
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| Health department nurses vaccinating our staff. |
One of our clinic patients came in for routine diabetic check and we were talking about healthy habits. She mentioned that she is reading her bible and knows how to read in Kiche! She has an old, out of print Kiche bible that the original translators gave out at her church when she was young. They taught everyone how to read and she still uses hers. She offered to teach me sometime. I might take her up on it!
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| John 3:16 in K'iche |
Here in Guatemala we have a high incidence of cervical cancer still. We are working with another organization, Faith in Practice to offer more screening tests by training nurses to work in our mobile clinics. Two more of our nurses were trained--Berta and Ada. And Faith in Practice provided the training and certification and gifted us a thermo-coagulator for treating low grade precancerous lesions at the time of diagnosis. We are excited to have a way to decrease the number of patients lost to follow-up and hopefully the number of cancer patients.
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| Our Director of Nursing, Darling Ayerdis receiving a thermo-coagulator for our clinic. |
School Days
Our ABC and Scholarship kids are back to school soon. They are excited to get started. Jose one of our evangelists was asked to lead a youth group activity in Chuguxa. It was on the topic of Generosity. Be praying for these young people to draw closer to God and choose to walk with Christ.
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| Youth group outing, Guatemala style! |
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