Back to the Mealer Community with God Moments

Keeping up with the construction crew, and the unconventional windows and doors because we were looking for the windows and doors yesterday. Today we found the windows and door being made when we arrived at the job site. The windows and doors were made from tongue and groove boards. It is our task to install the door and window openings (4) of the house. There is no latch on the outside BUT inside to keep anything entering into the house for example a pig or chicken or whatever is roaming outside. When you want a breeze in the house you open the windows across from each other to let the air flow through. This is what we call air conditioning!!

The family who will live in this home has six children. The youngest boy is unable to use his legs and uses a wheelchair. He also has a specially golf cart- style with petals and steering to go to school and get the around the community.

Bob,Wendell, Brandon and Verne are happy to have the fathers help because of his building skills and hard work he puts into his future home for his family, He is trying to make his house beautiful with arches instead of a plain cinder block house

We set up our clinic in a school and church building. Wendell and I were dispensing worm pills and vitamin A. We had a two year old who was such a good patient. She took her worm pill biting it piece by piece without any fuss or expression. All the children around were so tickled how she took her pill.

The medical clinic experienced life's joys and sorrows today. They started the day with a woman who filled the room with happiness that came from within. She told Rolando that she is a Christian and despite being deserted by her 6 children she knows she is not alone, that God is with her. Colleen experienced a God moment as she was able to use the instructions written in Spanish for treating diaper rash that her prayer partner Phyllis just gave her that morning! The end of the day was hard. Rolando, Sandy and Colleen did a house call to a woman with advanced brest cancer. They realized they needed more supplies to treat the tumored area and came back to the school and invited all of us to come to pray. Rosita prayed over the woman. If in the US, this woman would have had surgery and by now would be on hospice with morphine. Their treatment today was just to provide dignity and deal with the pain...we gave her what we could...tylenol and ibuprofen. And also could provide love and comfort to the family. It was a lesson in true compassion.

Saw 165 patients.....computer lab closing...more tomorrow.
Joyce, Verne and Barb