Home for a Week

This week we are hosting our first short-term team of 2012. We are privileged to have Dr. Greg and Pastor Mike from Trinity Presbyterian Church in Harrisburg, PA serving with us this week. Greg has been here several times and this is Mike's first time. They are helping and serving alongside all of our team in many facets of the ministry here. I am staying with them in our dorm facility all week.

Ashley and I are excited to have them work with us on Wed. in La Fe. We will have our first 'event' - a medical clinic. We want to point the people of La Fe to Christ, the Great Physician, as we help them a little with their physical ailments. 

The dorm room I am staying in with Dr. Greg and Pastor Mike.

Please pray for the families of Greg and Mike that are without husbands and fathers this week. Also please pray that all the work they do here this week would bring glory to the name of Jesus!

Medical Clinic

Yesterday, Ashley and got to help our teammates, Mike & Erin, put on a medical clinic. Erin is a nurse and every week they put on a clinic for the community they are working in. Yesterday we went to help so that we can learn the process because we hope to be able to provide some medical help to the people of La Fe.

Ashley working intake.

Since neither of us know anything about medicine, we learned the two other main processes of the clinic: intake and pharmacy.

Intake is where we take in patients. Depending on age, we take height, weight, blood pressure, blood sugar, and arm circumference. We also find out why the patients are there. You know, What hurts? We also pray with each patient and give them a Gospel tract.

Pharmacy is well, a pharmacy. Erin writes down the medicine that each patient needs and we provide it for them and explain how and when they need to take it.

So, Ashley prefers working intake and I prefer pharmacy which works well. We both learned what to do for each station so that we are able to do it if the other is not available. Yesterday was a great experience for us to help some sick people as well as prepare to help others in La Fe, where our main ministry will be.