Clinic reach

It's hard to share what the clinic does on a daily basis via a blog or photos on social media.  Usually the biggest things for God that they do (or you could say that He enables them to do), are also the hardest to "capture."  

Here are a few recent "histories" though

Cristian lives just a 5 minute or so drive from the clinic, probably a 15-20 minute walk.  Darwin asked if I wanted to visit him at home a week ago.  Darwin had first visit him shortly after he had been shot while working on a bus in our neighborhood.  We went back recently to check on his ulcers.  His mom takes very good care of him, but being paralyzed from the waist down he is susceptible to these issues. We took them some gloves, some diapers (we always ask for adult diapers to put on containers...they are so expensive here. We didn't have any the XL size he needs, because of the ulcers), we spent some time talking, and then prayed for all of them.  Then...his mom sent me home with a big rose bush for Valerie.   

This doesn't look like a clinic, but a hospital.  It is Doctor Carlos, doing a "minor surgery" for a patient with a lipoma that was bothering her.  She had been looking for a place that could remove it for her...and then she found a place that would take the time, effort, and had the people with the skill and materials to do it.  

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The optometry clinic sees patients literally from all over the country, and sometimes patients from other countries.  

This week, a regular visit from the Micah Project, another ministry here that helps young men that have/had been living on the streets of Tegucigalpa.  

Helping people...and helping people in other ministries help people, is a very cool thing.  

We got an initial estimate for turning the clinic into a hospital from the construction firm.  To do everything needed to go to three stories, double wide from what we are now...from about 8000' to 24000', done to a hospital standard and built to withstand adding more floors in the future...over $500,000.  

That might be more money than we have raised in the last 20 years combined for building projects.  Just looking at the number, it seems unlikely.  

It seems that way, it really does.  The word "daunting" comes to mind.  

Time to pray to Him who turns what seems unlikely or impossible into possible, start working on a plan, and see what He does.  And keep helping people in His name as we go.