Today our group of 37 was officially split into teams A and B to serve at two different churches in Honduras. Clearly Team A is the superior team as we were provided with less staff and fewer translators yet did an equally fantastic job (ha-ha ;)! On a more serious note ☺, there are many reasons to give thanks to the Lord:
1. Everything went great at both sites
2. All team members were healthy and accounted for before and after the brigade.
3. The Evangelism team shared many encouraging stories. Our favorite was the account of a wife who was at one evangelism station praying with us for her husband to come to faith. He has been resisting this for years. Meanwhile, at another evangelism station another team member and a very gifted translator and evangelism assistant, Gustavo were meeting with the husband. The Holy Spirit led the men through an encounter which ended with the husband accepting Christ!
4. Last night's cross-cultural training and water filter training sessions for our teams proved very effective in helping us improve the way we trained the Hondurans on how to use and maintain the water filters they received today. The key element all teams added today was more complete water filter backwash training to help the filters serve them the entire 10 years that they are capable of.
5. Both teams had wonderful translators to assist both with the translation and station needs.
6. Dental, optical, medical, and pharmacy stations all ran well. Our favorite account here was when the Lord provided an unusual pair of glasses for this trip. It met exactly the right high prescription and astigmatism needs of one of our patients! Praise God! The absolutely delighted smile on the man's face afterwards was priceless.
7. Children's ministry went well. We provided fun gospel education, salvation bracelets, nail polishing, hair washing, hair styling, and head lice treatments as needed. Special Team A shout out to Cheryl for her amazing skill and experience as she championed head lice inspection, treatment, and eradication. This was invaluable to Team A who had at least 60% of their children need head lice eradication. Team B only had three children who needed head lice treatment.
8. Dr. Kathy treated us all to delicious "Sarita" ice cream after tonight's team recap meeting.
Thanks for reading. Please thank and praise the Lord with us for all these blessings!
Yours truly, Teams A's Em & Blu😊😊
OPTICAL
DENTAL
MEDICAL
PHARMACY
CHILDREN'S
CUTE KIDS
EVANGELISM
WATER FILTERS
