September 18, 2008 Clinic Sinks

Here are the new sinks and cabinets now installed in the clinic. The sinks were donated and Jose (known as "Jose the carpenter") built the cabinets and the desk.

September 17, 2008

Cindy is going to remain in Evansville until October 17th to help her sister settling her mother's estate. Brad returned to Honduras today to help there since they are shorthanded now and will return to Evansville on October 3rd. Originally we were scheduled to be in Evansville October 3 -17 and have already purchased the tickets. We are going to go ahead and be in Evansville the 3 -17 as planned but will now push our furlough originally scheduled for January of 2009 to March and April.

September 3, 2008

Brad arrived in Evansville in the afternoon and the next couple of weeks would happen but not be completely remembered. What we do remember is the people that called, the people that took time out of their schedule and came to funeral home, the people who expressed in other ways their love and concern. We thank you so much. We truly have wonderful friends in our lives.

September 2, 2008

Cindy called Brad early this morning and asked if he could come to the States because her mom was not doing well. Brad went with the team to the site, dropped off the stuff in his truck and then was headed back to the hotel to pack his stuff to head back to Faith Home. While driving back to the hotel Cindy called to say her mom had passed away. God had allowed Cindy to spend the last time with her mother.

Cindy went to work arranging a flight for Brad out of San Pedro Sula and Brad drove with Saul to Tegucigalpa to catch a bus back to Faith Home.

September 1, 2008

We had the first day of the clinic today and shall we say it was HOT. We saw over 350 people today and had the privilege of working alongside about 15 people from the church in Choluteca even without any of the translators being able to help us today. God provided us with a sufficient number of people on the team to be able to function and also provided us two local nurses who helped us with the clinic.

August 31, 2008

The medical/dental team journeys to Choluteca today in a big yellow school bus, a cargo van, and a pickup pulling a trailer. Forty minutes into the trip one of the tires on the trailer loses its tread and we have to stop and change the tire. This is not looking good. It's about a 9 -10 trip and forty minutes into it we already have a problem.

The rest of the day goes fairly smoothly. The only real glitch is when we are leaving the mall in Tegucigalpa after eating lunch one of the vehicles doesn't get out of the mall and onto the highway with the other two and we spend about 30 minutes getting all the vehicles back together.

After about 9 1/2 hours we arrive in Choluteca without losing any vehicles, luggages, or people.

August 31, 2008

The team is ready and on the bus by ten until 6:00 but Cindy is waiting to call her sister because her sister was going to go over to her mom's house and receive Cindy's call there. We load our luggage on the bus in preparation to go to Choluteca and Cindy calls her sister. Her sister tells her that her mom wants her to come home. God you are so good and you do answer prayer. Cindy's mother is not a clingy person and if she is asking for Cindy to come home then there is a reason. The decision is obvious. Cindy should return to the States and return today. Cindy gets online. Books a fight to Evansville. And Brad retrieves her bag from the bus. The team that is on the bus learns what is happening and overwhelms us with love, and hugs, and money to help pay for her plane ticket. We can never express how much that touched us.

Brad goes with team to Choluteca and Cindy arrives in Evansville about 10:00 pm that evening. No missed connections. No delays.