June 2012
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Love and the stars
missionlazarusinterns:
Last night I took some time to sit and reflect on the last three weeks here. I sat in a rocking chair on the second story balcony of dos plantas and looked at the stars. I live in the city back home so I don’t get to see many stars. The whole sky was covered with them and it seemed like they continued on forever. Immediately this verse came to mind:
Psalm 8:3-4 “When I...
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Living in Community with God
missionlazarusinterns:
This week has been wonderful, although some things did not go as planned! On Monday five of us went to the mountains of Las Pitas to do surveys, but on the way up the mountain the car broke down. We ended up being stranded in the mountains, for what we thought would only be a few hours and turned into about 8. The fact that things didn’t go as planned resulted in 5 people...
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Love Does
missionlazarusinterns:
This week has been really cool. I started off in the CIDT in Limon on Monday and it was an experience. While Honduras offers free education to children until 6th grade they must provide their own uniforms and books. For a lot of these families this is an impossible expense. This is where Mission Lazarus steps in and helps out by providing education for the kids that get...
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Medical Surveys: Take Two
missionlazarusinterns:
After being unable to make it out to Las Pitas to conduct surveys on Monday, we went to a group of homes nearby in Jayacayan on Wednesday to perform surveys for the health clinic. Drew, Ali, Jered and I went with José, a local preacher, to visit with families and ask several questions about their medical history and living situations. Of the four of us, some speak Spanish...
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Stranded
missionlazarusinterns:
One of the tasks we interns are assigned to complete this summer is a health survey of the communities where Mission Lazarus has clinics. It’s the same survey that was conducted six years ago—the goal is to see how the area’s healthcare has been affected and figure out what should be changed to most improve the quality of healthcare the patients receive. We go from house to...
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Santa Anita y Limón
missionlazarusinterns:
Hello Everybody,
Today was an amazing day! The interns piled into the old twelve person Land Cruiser with our driver Justo. As we descended down the mountain, the breath taking landscape of Honduras was there to greet us as it so faithfully does each morning. My spirits were exceptionally high today; we were heading to my two favorite places in Honduras, Limón and Santa...
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Seeing Joy
missionlazarusinterns:
Being in Honduras for 3 days now has been very cool. It is such a beautiful country and people. From doing a scavenger hunt, in Spanish, in the streets of San Marcos to wading through water to the island village of Boca, there has been no lack of excitement and gratefulness for being here. It has become extremely apparent that Mission Lazarus has made a dramatic impact on...
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Love
missionlazarusinterns:
God stresses the importance of love numerous times in His Word.
Love covers over a multitude of sins
The greatest commandment is love
Whoever doesn’t love, doesn’t know God
Perfect love drives out fear
We even get a description of love in 1 Corinthians 13 that gives us words to equate with the action of love: patient, kind,not proud, not self-seeking, etc. Even...
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Las Piletas With Beltway
missionlazarusinterns:
Today I went to the community of Las Piletas with the group from Beltway Baptist from Abilene. Each group was given a food bag or what the Hondurans typically call a bendición (blessing). Santos, the preacher who leads the church, lead us to a few houses that he thought would be good places to give the family the blessings to. After we finished reading the bible to and...
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304
by sethandrebekah:
304! I’ve been waiting for it for a few weeks and wondering when we’d hit the 300 mark, but when 5 new families presented to register at the clinic yesterday it was a done deal. As of yesterday, the Hacienda Mission Lazarus clinic located on the Ranch outside of San Marcos is providing pediatric, prenatal, and primary care to 304 families in the surrounding villages. It has...
