A little over a year ago, we started talking about the necessity of changing the hospital roof. It’s hard to believe that time has already come. We welcomed Firefighters for Christ along with Calvary Bible Church on April 22nd to begin the first part of roof reconstruction– demolition. This demolition wasn’t quite like you see on “demo day” with Chip and Johanna Gaines swi...
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The Lundeen Family and River Valley Medical Team
The 17th of March we welcomed the Lundeen family (Max, Angie, Nora, Levi, Elsa, and Ezra) to Honduras to serve alongside us here at the Jungle Hospital. For their first week, Max partnered with our Nurse Practitioners to tend to our patients. Levi helped ‘Macky’ in reception, Nora helped the nurses in pharmacy, Elsa frequently helped her dad, and Angie and Ezra loved on the k...
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Robertsdale Dental Care
We recently had the privilege of hosting the staff of Robertsdale Dental Care for a week of dental brigades. It is such a unique opportunity to have a whole team of dental care providers who can provide high quality dental care to the people of the Cangrejal River Valley. Dr. Jason Northcutt and his team conducted themselves with the utmost professionalism and compassion towar...
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The Expansion Continues
We have so many big things going on here in the Jungle as the Lord continues to bless this ministry and expand our influence. Here’s an update on all the things that have happened and will continue to happen with your support here in Rio Viejo!
Let's start by taking a look at everything that’s already been accomplished so far. Construction on houses one, two, three, and du...
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Now Introducing Our New Volunteers!
As of October 1, 2022, the Jungle Hospital welcomed four new staff members. Each one of them was called to missions at different times and stages of their lives, and each was compelled to begin that work here at the Jungle Hospital. So, without further adieu, meet our new staff members!
Lisa Field, MSN, FNP:
Lisa came to Honduras on her first medical missions tri...
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Summer Fun 2022
Well that’s a wrap on an incredibly busy team’s season for the Jungle Hospital. This summer we were joined by one J-Team intern (Madison Grimstad from Montana) and a one-year intern (McKenzie “Macky” McLeod from Alabama). These girls hit the ground running by flying in on the same day as a construction team from City Hope Church from Malbis, Alabama. This team consisted of 16 ...
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River Valley Medical Team 2022
We had a wonderful week serving alongside River Valley Church medical team! Despite their trip being cut short a day due to a flight cancellation, it didn’t stop them from arriving with huge smiles on their faces and ready to love on everyone they saw.
Check out these highlights from a few of their team members:
Max Lundeen: Physician Assistant/Team Leader
DAY 1: Tra...
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Loxley First Baptist/HHG Families
With Loxley First Baptist, three families of the HHG staff and an OB/GYN combined, we had a diverse and fun educational team from July 1-8th. These guys came prepared with skits, dramas, puppets and supplies to start out our summer education visits to the local schools.
We began the week with our prep day on Sunday, which included preparing student bags, teacher gift bags, a...
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Lee University
Every year, we have the privilege of hosting a team from our Alma Mater: Lee University. This team was once again filled with incredible students and doctors who came prepared with medicine and supplies for their two weeks of mobile medical and dental clinics.
A highlight of their time here was our hike out to the village of La Muralla. We've had many patients come to our ho...
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Residents and PA Students Galore!
It's always been a desire of Dr. Martin that the Jungle Hospital be a learning environment: a place where students come to learn about medicine in the Third World and about life on the mission field. We see this dream becoming a reality more and more each month as we not only receive more teams, but we take on more volunteers and interns all coming to lend a helping hand.
Jo...
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