Well, the missionaries and others all gathered at Forest Park last Saturday and packed drugs for the clinics in Nicaragua February 18th to 25th, 2 weeks from now.
$120,000 worth of drugs and supplies and we packed it all in 15 Rubbermaid totes. No wonder health care is so expensive. There is no way the people in the towns of Somoto and Sebaco, where we will be ministering, could afford these medicines any other way. Our Optometrist, Dr. Scott Denison is also bringing 300 or so pairs of eyeglasses. I wish you could see peoples faces as they are able to read again after years of failing eyesight.
Our plane leaves Saturday, 2/18/06 at 3:05 PM. If you can come out, we’ll be checking in at around 1:PM and we’d love to have your prayers and good wishes as we leave (you can also help carry some totes!).
If you will send me your email address, I will send you updates as I can while we are in Nicaragua. However, we will be staying in a hotel in the town of Esteli during the clinics to avoid having to travel a long distance home each evening afterwards. So, unless I can find an internet cafe, updates may have to wait until Thursday night.
Forest Park conducts a medical clinic every year in Nicaragua. Every year medical people of great skill, ministers of the gospel, people willing to give and people willing to go all combine to be Jesus to a people in need. If you have not yet participated on a short term mission, seek the Lord’s will for you and then see me! He’ll give you the will - I’ll get you the ticket!
It will be a blessing to them and an honor for us to go in the name of Christ with healing in our hands and on our lips.
