February 9, 2009 Pastors Trip

Arnaldo had never seen the ocean. So they took about a 45 minute detour to show him the ocean. He loved it. Miguel is on the left and Arnaldo is the right. Miguel also had the opportunity to show off his horse handling skills.

February 9, 2009 Pastors Trip

The pastors had a great trip visiting and encouraging the pastors in other areas of Honduras. Here are some pics. The church services and distribution of clothes, Sunday School materials, and candy.

February 8, 2009 - Medical Clinic

The people then went to the next available doctor. The gentleman in the red shirt with his back to the camera is Dr. Reyes. In the other pic the gentlemen in the white shirt seated on the left of the table is the another doctor (didn't get his name). And then Cindy with Dr. Galo.

February 8, 2009 - Medical Clinic

The lady with the microphone would call the next name on the list they along with their family members would pass through the curtain into the waiting area with the chairs.

February 8, 2009 - Medical Clinic

When we arrived at the church the church was already full of people and they were signing in by giving the man seated at the table their name and age.

February 8, 2009 - Medical Clinic

Cindy had made contact with a local Honduran doctor through Juan Bendect at the wood factory (for those who have been here you will know what we are talking about). Juan also owns the television station in El Progreso and the doctor has a show on the station. We had watched the doctor's program and on the show he seemed to be very nice and wanting to help people in the community. Cindy contacted him and he came to Faith Home and picked up some stuff we wanted to donate to someone who could use the stuff to help the community.

The doctor, Dr. Galo, invited us to come with him on the medical clinic he was holding in a local community on Sunday - which is today. So, we were excited to go and see what they do.

We arrived at his house about 9:00 am and waited for him to return from a local clinic where he was picking up supplies. While we were waiting two other doctors arrived along with a nurse (we think she was a nurse). A little later Dr. Galo arrived and a few minutes later another doctor arrived.

We loaded up in four vehicles (every doctor had their own vehicle because they each had to leave at different times) and off we went. We rode with Dr Galo and his body guard who was carrying both a rifle and a pistol. Another of the doctors had a body guard also. This is the life of people here who are successful financially. They are targets of kidnapping to be held for ransom. So, many have personal bodyguards that go with them everywhere they go.

We were curious to see how they ran their clinics and compare it to the way we do our clinics. It was interesting. It was held in a church. The church had a curtain hanging in the middle of the church to divide it into two sections. One section where the people would wait and the other section where the people would be seen by the doctors and receive any medicine the doctors prescribed.

Dr. Galo was in an area enclosed with sheets and the other three doctors just sat at tables in the middle of the room. The people sat at the tables with the doctors and the doctors tore off pieces of blank paper to write prescriptions. The people than took the paper to the table with the medicine. Got their stuff and left. The women were also able to see Dr. Galo as he is a gynecologist.

Cindy spent the day working with Dr. Galo and Brad observed how they did it and played with the kids.

February 5, 2009 - Preaching

Tonight, Cindy preached for the first time since we've been in Honduras. She did some in Spanish and some in English. Last Saturday one of the local Pastors asked Cindy if she would speak to the women in his church. Cindy wasn't real excited about speaking in public in English or Spanish, but agreed to do it. Later she realized the night he had asked her to preach was the a night when they have regular services. She would be speaking at a regular service. Now, she really wasn't happy.

The pastor and his family had us over for supper before the service - beans (frijolitos), eggs, crema, and fried chicken. It was good. Then we went to the service where Cindy did a great job. Saul was there to help interpret when Cindy was speaking in English.