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There are way too many Clinic outreaches over the last several months to enumerate in this blog! What we can report with joy and thanksgiving is that hundreds of people have been treated in villages along our coast, and in the mountains, and that churches, existing and new plants, are receiving quality remote care and are hearing and responding to the richness of Christ. We are immensely grateful for our generous supporters, the short-term teams and Clinic staff who make these medical brigades possible! So, we’ll mention just a few of the things that the Lord has allowed us to do here recently, and we\u2019ll show a few photos of some of these events. Click on the picture to see the whole photo!<\/p>\n
The soon-coming Nursing School has been built. We’ll need to furnish it with everything necessary for RN training. The primary bottleneck right now is all the required paperwork to finish and submit to the government office in charge of approving this type of facility. An entire curriculum is being created to be approved before the Nursing school can operate. Our hope is that by September 2027 we can open, inviting good Christian nurses into the program!<\/p>\n
Laura\u2019s work, apart from her normal duties as director of the on-base and mobile Corban Clinic, has been doing more and more home visits in and around our village, which she really enjoys! Laura is an evangelist at heart, wanting others to know the beauty and majesty of our Lord Jesus.<\/p>\n
Home Care<\/strong><\/p>\n Here in Mexico, at least in our area, there is no home health care available. No post-op visits in the home nor visits for chronic situations nor hospice care for terminally ill patients. So, we are often called on for those kinds of things. We currently have four local patients we are visiting regularly, and a few others we visit periodically.<\/p>\n Let us introduce you to two of our home care patients. \u201cChinta\u201d (her real name is Jacinta) is an approximately seventy-year-old lady who lives in our village with her husband, a fisherman, and they have no children. One morning, about 5:30 a.m., I was called to her house because her husband said that she was nonresponsive. I thought maybe a stroke, but couldn\u2019t really know without examining her. So I went to her house, and although her respirations and pulse were fine, she was only minimally responsive to verbal commands, and too weak to talk. She is diabetic, so I checked her blood glucose level, and it was 43, extremely low! We only had sugar on hand, so we gave her some to dissolve in her mouth, and she quickly became more responsive, praise the Lord! Her blood glucose was coming up slowly, but she was obviously better as she was able to speak and to sit up to eat something. About ten minutes after eating, her blood glucose was up to 122 mg\/dL, so we were relieved. On checking her pill box, it seemed that she had taken too much of her diabetes medication. We did refer Chinta on to the hospital, and her lab work was good. The hospital doctor simply told her that she just needed to eat more. Her husband is now overseeing her meals and administering her diabetes medication, and she is doing very well. We still visit her weekly to check her blood glucose and fill her weekly pill box so we have a way of checking on compliance in taking her medications properly.<\/p>\n Another young man we are visiting in town is Jos\u00e9 Alfredo, a nineteen-year-old diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. He has very limited mobility and a lot of pain, but we are hopeful that on receiving the right treatment (a biologic agent that he will be able to receive if he is accepted in the government hospital in Oaxaca City), that his condition can improve. His mom is a single mom who works really hard making and selling tortillas and tostadas to raise funds for their living and medical expenses. We are grateful to those who have met Jos\u00e9, and have helped them! He has been provided with an electric wheelchair which is much more comfortable and easier to manage for him than his previous one. We were able to get him to a private rheumatologist for more specific testing and a surer diagnosis. Please pray for Jos\u00e9 and his mom, Eugenia. Both are Christians, and when Jos\u00e9 is up to it, his mom brings him to church. Please pray for strength and patience for both of them, relief of pain and more mobility for Jos\u00e9. Thank you!<\/p>\n Training and Schools<\/strong><\/p>\n We\u2019re ending another academic year for our various schools. Between Bible School classes and the Clinic\u2019s participation with classes for the students, dozens of our Christ-following Mexican nationals have been equipped this year to work, share, and live the gospel in their native towns and villages. A beautiful story from our Multigrade School and church<\/strong><\/p>\n One of our recently saved mothers, Viri, enrolled her four-year-old boy in the Multigrade school. No one knew that he had a hearing problem. It was discovered after the symptoms obviated the need for some tests. One of our teachers, a former Spanish School student, successfully helped raise funds for him to get hearing aids. When he later reported to a physician to chart his development, the physician was quite surprised at how much this preschooler knew! He asked his mother, Viri, what school her son attended. When she told him about the Multigrade School on the mission base, he remarked that the child was way ahead of others his age, even with the time lost due to his hearing disability. Quality Christian education depends a great deal on its teachers, and his teachers took the time, care, and effort to enable him to excel. The Multigrade School and high school are always at maximum attendance, serving our staff, Spanish School children, and mission base workers, as well as about 40% of them being from our small town. Light and salt!<\/p>\n August in the States<\/strong><\/p>\n We will take a nineteen-day break in August to visit family and friends, sharing in churches and with individual supporters in Mississippi, Florida, and New York. We love what we do here, Laura as Director of the Clinic and its ministries, David as Director of the Spanish School for missionaries and cross-cultural Christians, Superintendent for the Mexican high school and the K-12 English curriculum Multigrade School, and Professor for the first and second years of Bible School. And, of course, our joyful involvement in our local church. But our August break is always a treat. We hope to see as many of you as we can!<\/p>\n We wish God\u2019s perfect blessing to you today and in this season! 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You will remember some of our medical students that some of you sponsor, among them Grace Hern\u00e1ndez, and Irlanda Herrera. Grace has finished medical school at the top of her class, and is now in Mexico City at a quality hospital to do her one-year hospital rotation. She\u2019s a physician now, and has ably helped in the Clinic when she\u2019s been at home. Irlanda will enter her last year of medical school in 2027. Another is Hanny Hern\u00e1ndez, starting her third year in the university for Special Education, a largely unmet need all around our area. Others that you helped with teaching degrees, such as Abd\u00edas Rodr\u00edguez and Laura Cruz, finished this year as well, and are now teaching our next generation of national and international students and missionaries on the mission base. We\u2019re so very pleased to report their progress and fruitful achievements to you!<\/p>\n