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Day 6 and the 4^th day of clinic

Another day another location. The only thing constant on this trip is an unending supply of people in need of medical attention and our unified desire to serve them. Yesterday Bob read from Mathew 18:20, “wherever two or three are gathered in his name, there am I in the midst of them.” We have really had a sense of Christ’s hand in all that we do. All of our clouds have had silver linings.

Today we traveled to Getsemani, our most rural location to date. There was a house with a courtyard covered with tin roofing. Nancy set up shop inside the house for womens health and Judy & Cherie were in the courtyard for adult health. They shared their space with Brad in Tropical Optical. Randy and Jeff did an awesome job in hanging tarps to create workable space for everyone.

The rest of the crew were located across the road where Pastor Juan’s crew of volunteers

erected several tent like structures for Triage, Pediatrics and Optical vision testing. Because the site was spread out we made maximum use of runners to get the patients where they had to be.

During the late afternoon storm clouds gathered and lightening flashed in the distance. Yet again God smiled upon us as only a few drops of rain fell and the storm passed us by.

And the mission team continued seeing patient upon patient bringing our 4 day total to over 800 patients. Today Dr. Mike saw 49 patients with his wife Susan assisting him. Liz made Mike’s life a lot easier by being able to translate for all those patients.

After a quick shower at our hotel we went to a church service at Providincia where several of our mission team had worked on a bible school project a few years back. The service was followed by a delicious meal of tamale, plantains and refried beans served up by the ladies of the church.

As a special treat Pastor Juan had the bus stop in the central area of Ahuachapan for ice cream and a quick stroll in the park.