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Volunteers Brought Hope and Changed Lives
During the last week of June, 40 volunteers traveled to San Pedro Sula, Honduras, to participate in the HOPE worldwideMedical Brigade. This was the second of such trips in the past six months to Honduras. HOPE worldwide U.S. volunteers from Boston, San Diego, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and North Carolina served the members of the San Pedro Sula International Church of Christ and surrounding communities.
Four doctors and three nurses lead the medical team. Other volunteers assisted in the pharmacy, vision clinic, dental clinic and children’s program. Dr. Milton Drake and his son, Dr. Jon Drake, administered adult medical care. Pediatricians Dr. Doug Stein and Dr. Elliott Suarez treated the children.
In four days, more than 190 children and 250 adults were treated.
Many were diagnosed and treated for respiratory illness, parasites, diabetes and hypertension.
More than 700 prescriptions were filled free of charge, with medications donated by U.S. companies and doctors.
343 people received reading glasses free of charge.
While the medical clinics were taking place, volunteers entertained the children with puppet making, face painting, soccer games and music classes.
Plans for a third Medical Brigade in January 2011 are currently underway. You can help us continue to provide this important medical care to needy families in Honduras and other communities by donating now.
Related Agenda
Thursday, June 24th,
Breakfast Buffet begins service at 6:00 am in the lobby. There are many other groups in the hotel.
7:00 am The La Ceiba room will be available for our group to eat breakfast. Pick-up your breakfast choices from the buffet and proceed to the La Ceiba meeting room. The room is located next to the gift shop in the lobby diagonally across from the buffet. The hotel will provide you with breakfast vouchers on your check in. After breakfast the group had a short devotional class by the lead evangelist from the San Pedro Sula church,
Héctor Cruz and he preaches about how God feels about pride when we don’t do nothing with the blessings we get from him using the example of Sodom. Then he encourages the group telling them that they have learned to imitate Jesus’ heart for the poor and to love even when we don’t deserve it.
7:45 am. We will have a meeting to discuss the details of the day and weekend.
8:30 am. Depart for the church building to setup for the brigade. The church building is 5 minutes from the hotel. At arrival to the church building there are already people waiting for the Brigade. There’s a sense of gratitude and joy in the faces of the disciples and their families as they wait for their turn to have a consult.
4-6 pm football soccer plan for teens, this is a church evangelistic plan. It’s great to see there are no walls of language, nationality, race or distance among disciples because they all share the heart of Jesus.
9:00 am to 5:00 pm, Medical Mission Brigade. The brigade will focus on members of the church including their extended families. (Mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters) 88 children, 118 adults are listed. At the end of the day a total of XX adults have been attended, XX children and 75 glasses have been given to disciples and their families at church. Each one of them is so grateful because it has been explained that now each one has a file on a data base and they are considered “patients” of each doctor with a promise of follow up in six months. A total of XX prescriptions are filled with free medication for the needs of all. The response is so overwhelming that there’s a need to schedule another brigade for Sunday afternoon after church. The children program is a real success and the kids are so happy of being able to sing, paint, create puppets and play with the brothers and sisters.
Friday, June 25th.
Breakfast Buffet begins at 6:00 am. There will be a section of tables and chairs setup for our group located near the side entrance of the lobby. We would suggest arriving at 6:30 am as we will depart for San Antonio at 7:30. The trip to San Antonio will take approximately 1 ½ hours.
We should arrive at San Antonio approximately 9:00 am. We will work until 4:00. Once the group gets to San Antonio de Majada there are a lot of people waiting for the Brigade to start. They have set up rooms in the Medical Center for the medical attention of adults and children. A total of XX adults are attended, XX children and 93 glasses given to disciples from San Antonio de Majada and the community. It’s so humbling for our hearts to hear the words of gratitude of people sharing stories like that they now will be able to read their Bibles or finish their school because of the help received. In the building in front of the Medical Center operates a school and there is set up the Dental treatment and the children program. All the kids are joyful for what the disciples do for them. A total of XX prescriptions are filled and even some medications that are not available at the moment are bought later for the people in need.
6:30-9:30pm Teen campus singles devotional with local ministries.
Saturday, June 26th.
Breakfast Buffet begins at 6:00. Our group’s location will be moved back to the La Ceiba room. We will depart for the Chamelacon, HOPE ww, Clinic at 7:00. The clinic is approximately 20 minutes from the hotel. Is a rainy day but that’s not going to stop the desire of the disciples to help. A total of XX adults are attended, XX children and 175 glasses during the day are given to the people that come to get help. A total of XX prescriptions are filled and everybody is grateful of the selfish work of the Americans attending the Brigade.
The brigade will begin at 8:00 am – 5:00 am. 86 children, 115 Adults
6:30-9:30 Dinner at church building. A total of XX American disciples joins the XX Honduran disciples in a gratitude dinner first to God and to one and other.
Sunday, June 27th.
Church 9:00 am.
Dr. Elliot Suarez- Preaching, Randy Jordan, HOPE ww, CEO-Communion. The communion message is given by Randy Jordan reminding the congregation to love as God did. That love moves Him to give his son Jesus. Then Jesus imitating the heart of God also loved and gave, but not only giving but taking the very nature of a servant giving himself to the death on the cross. Now us as disciples need to love, give, take the nature of servants and give even our lives if it’s needed. Then Dr. Suarez preached a powerful message to the church helping us to understand that we need to do whatever it takes to save the people around us, taking our responsibility and not waiting for the leaders to do everything for us and finally learning to build with precious stones and not only with wood and hay.
The clinic for disciples and their families will immediately follow the church service. At the end of the service the Brigade continued attending the rest of the people that couldn’t be seen on Thursday.
After the church we will done with the list of the disciples that we cannot see on Thursday.
Departure to Airport, resort or Hotel depend case.
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