So here is an update on the number of people we saw in the clinic on Tuesday and Wednesday… Tuesday we saw 244 people and on Wednesday we saw 208. Not quite as many as Monday, but still a good number of people that we were able to help and show God’s love to. We have also had a number of people from Sumpango commit or recommit their lives to Christ this week. There have been 7 people who have given their lives to Christ, 3 people have recommitted their lives, and there have been hundreds of seeds planted this week. The most exciting part is knowing that God is using the people of Los Olivos to reach out to their own people and share the gospel of Christ with them.
Our third day of clinic started out with Derek doing our devotion in the morning. He talked about margin in our lives and what it looks like to have margin. He referred to Matthew 11:28-30 which talks about coming to the Lord and laying your burdens on Him and finding rest for our souls. Margin in life is our free time, and as Christians we should be looking how we spend that free time. Does is take away from time we could be spending with God and growing closer to Him? Once the time is gone, we can’t get that time back. I know I have really looked at my life the past three days to see where I’m spending time doing meaningless things when I could be spending it with God.
From what I know, clinic ran quite well yet again on Wednesday. We praise the Lord for the way He has blessed us in that area this week. In the morning, we did have a patient come in with a possible case of tuberculosis, but the doctors handled it well and made sure all the right precautions were taken. Derek and Ryan were in charge for a while in the middle of the day when Jon and Scott left and the clinic was still intact when they returned, so that was good! God has continued to work through all of us today so we were able to continue to help the people of Sumpango that came to the clinic. The bus ride back to the orphanage was an interesting trip that took about 30 minutes longer than it normally does. This was because the streets in Sumpango are very narrow and sometimes the buses have a hard time getting past each other when there are a lot of other vehicles on the road. There were times I thought we were going to get hit, but our bus driver as always was amazing and we made it back without incident.
Once we returned from the clinic we had dinner and Dr. Paredes joined us and told us how he came to partner with us and our clinic. Dr. Paredes is the local doctor in Sumpango and takes care of a lot of people from the smaller villages surrounding the city. When dinner was over, our fearless worship leaders lead us in worship as we lifted our hearts to God and asked Him to fill us again with His spirit so we could continue to serve Him. After worship, the card games came out and rivalries continued as they have the past three nights. The fellowship with this team of people is amazing and I’m blessed to be a part of it. Please continue to pray for us as we go into our last day of clinic and start to get ready to head back to the states.
~Jenny
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