As It Should Be

We had our first team of the season this year, Life Church International from Atlanta, GA. What an incredible refreshment for us. They came with their hearts set to serve, full of energy and expectation. They helped us start new projects and finish the ones that have been hanging over our heads for the past month or so. They continued to demo the interior ceiling of the hospital, as we get ready to do a major overhaul on the electrical wiring. They also painted our storage container (the big gray box sitting on the property for over a year), and helped us perk up the dorm patio by painting the planter box and raw concrete columns.

We also welcomed Brandi Compton, a Texas born Registered Nurse who has been working in the Colorado Back Country for the past 4 years. Brandi has a heart for missions, and will be doing an internship here for the next 6 months. We are believing God will make her path clear before her, so that she may follow in His will for the rest of her life. What an awesome thing!

Dr. John and Anna Tucher have also been serving with us for the week in the outpatient clinic. Dilligently seeing patients as the demolition went on around them. We were so glad to host Dr. John for the second year in a row, and this year he brought his beautiful wife Anna with him.

Together the team went out to a small village named La Colorada and taught the kids some lessons on healthy eating and hygiene. We were also able to give each kid a new back pack filled with school supplies and a new pair of sandals, thanks to Clint Downing and Neighborhood Ministry, Inc. who collected and shipped 32 brand new backpacks fully stocked!

Then once we returned from the school the team broke ground on the new volunteer housing building, that will house up to 20 long term volunteers!

This week was such a demonstration of the Body of Christ at work. We have had people from all over the place: Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Colorado, even Canada and Korea! What an incredible blessing it has been to work with these great people, and we are all inspired to see what God does next. This week was a great example of how things should be around here, and around the world - Christians coming together, laying aside their personal lives, and instead living for the Kingdom.

Sweet as Candy

As we prepare for all of the things God has for us in 2011, we know that He is committed to the people of Honduras. He continues to show that by the resources He sends our way, one of those being Human Resources.  We believe that He is building a dream team, and the first member of the year is Mrs. Candy Beebe, RN.

We have been operating the clinic without a Registered Nurse for the past few months, and we felt pressed to reach out for help. We sent out a few distress calls and one was answered by Mrs. Candy. She is not new to Honduras, in fact, she and her husband lived in a town about 2 hours from Rio Viejo and helped get another medical/dental clinic off the ground. So she is just the person for the job!

She arrived right in the middle of that rainstorm we had this past week, and we are so glad she made it to the hospital safely! If you missed our last blog entry you can scroll down or click right HERE to watch the video of the storm and the first delivery at the Jungle Hospital!!

Life at the Jungle Hospital

As many of you have read on our FaceBook and Twitter posts, we have had an eventful few weeks here at the Jungle Hospital. The following is a video narrated by our very own Wendy Williams, filmed by Rachel Williams, and edited by Mark Younger. It was a true team effort, just like the events portrayed within!

We hope that this video brings glory to God, and shows that His plans for His children are sovereign and good...even when they don't seem that way.

We hope you enjoy this video as much as we have! God is good all the time!