Jungle Post

River Valley Church sent us our first team from Minnesota this May! They were full of excitement, asking to how to serve and help in any way possible. With this attitude, they tackled the week with such energy, we hit some amazing goals on brigade. Our first day, in Rio Viejo, was a day of torrential jungle rains, which kept many patients from coming (21 medical patients, 7 den...

April proved to be full of visitors, most of them old friends which made this month feel like one big family reunion! Our volunteer, Lizzie, (who feels like family now) had her dad, Jerry Sillocks, come down for a week to visit this April! Jerry is a firefighter up in New York and is a part of the Firefighters for Christ ministry. In La Ceiba, he had a meeting with the head ...

This month, we got some more hands to help from Our Lady of the Lake with Ashley Kosier and LSU with Morgan Walker. Ashley is a pediatric resident and Morgan an Internal Medicine Resident. Both residents helped us in the Midwife Conference and participated on brigade with CityHope’s medical team. They even got to experience a rotation in La Ceiba’s hospital! They both helpe...

Through the good word of our friend Lee Domingue, this cluster of 3 Canadian families ended up visiting during the City Hope week and joining in on some of our school visits. The Thursday visits to Yaruca, Nueva Suyapa, and Los Pirineos now included some Northern friends alongside our Alabama church team! On Friday, when the City Hope team went down to La Ceiba, this family gro...

From CityHope Church in Alabama, we received first year ministry students for the first time! This addition to our medical brigades made our outreach even more rich and all-encompassing with spiritual ministry being focused on alongside our medical care with this dimensional group. Our week’s schedule had us in Rio Viejo (100 medical patients, 20 IER seniors with dental ...

After years of dreaming, we finally were able to host the first conference with the Cuenca midwives to train them in essential care for newborns. With the opening of our Labor and Delivery Ward in 2016, our passion for spreading newborn and new mothers’ health grew even more. Dr. Martin and our visiting Dr. Amy Wood facilitated the teachings and included the 3 Cuenca nurses and...