Nursing In Honduras: December 2006

Emilee Connell from Cairo came back to Honduras over Thanksgiving week. She brought with her lots of love and lots of gifts...Emilee's family and a few of their friends wanted to bless some one for Christmas. So she asked me to chose three families in Honduras.... Below is some pictures from the time we had with the families celebratin Christmas as well as some others from our Thanks-Giving project....,,,.

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celebrating Christmas in Honduras

This tree is at a service station in a town about an hour from where I live...It is pretty but seems so out of place....

Christmas project....family # 1

Pastor Jesus and his family were very pleased with their gifts...pastor Jesus put on his new shirt and is smelling his new handkercheif..

Calixta was so excited to get a warm coat and a hat...she did not have a coat..so what a blessing this gift was to her..

The Christmas Project family #2

cute huh

Christmas project.family # 3

Lola and some of her family...They were so excited and suprised....But so very grateful....

a soccer ball is always a hit with the kids especially the boys

The kids look great in their new cloths

THANKS-GIVING.....The people of Honduras do not celebrate Thanksgiving, but I felt like since I live there that I should celebrate it and after much prayer I felt that this day should be a time of celebrating God's blessing with one of the communities I serve....so I beleived we (LOHI) should bless them with beans and rice...Mireya and talked about what to do. we decided that we would not only give bean and rice but meal, a roll of lard, soap to wash their cloths, candles (this community does not have electricity) and matches..we determined that it would cost about three hunhres dollars to feed 30 families for a week. But when I talked to Ann (my treasurer) we realized that I(the ministry) did not have 300 dollars extra.....but we agreed to pray and ask God to provided..I beleive that where He guides He provides...Guess what HE did......Hebron Fellowship in Thomasville heard of what I was planning and ASKED if they could sponsor the project....How great is that???? so we had a time of fellowship and Thanks-giving..what a joy...Below is some of the sights of that day..
Blessings
lavearn

Pastor Jesus is the pastor of the church...He invited each of the 30 families to come to the church with out telling them what was going to happen 29 of the families came. we were so blessed that day. I think I was blessed as much as the people that came and received.

I had the opportunity to share the word of God and His love before giving out the supplies

he is carrying a 100 pounds of rice..seems easy huh

we had lots of help bringing in the hundreds of pounds of beans and rice

we we sharing God's word and His goodness with the community.

Emilee and I are getting some bags ready

This is a family that Johnny and Anna Ray have helped a lot over the past few months so I was gald to be able to help as well.

The pictures below is Yolana..she had a cleft lip. But with our help she had surgery in late November. we also provided milk for her for two months.

One week before surgery....

This is Yolani after her surgery...BEAUTIFUL

Your Financial Donations helped Dennis get surgery...He was burned as a baby and due to scar tissue he was having trouble urinating.. He has had two surgeries to date and will need one or two more next year.....THANKS

The next few Pictures is some of the faces of people I have had the opportunity to serve in past few months...

clinic at Shanty Town...Red plastic keeps the wind out.

Gits for children in a school (Dia de Nino)

Celebrating (dia de Nino) day of the child

roadside nursing

Mireya and I at clinic in Santa Cruz

This is the first patient I saw when I moved to Honduras. She was one day old. I have continued to follw her. Isn's she beautiful?

Having visits from Home is always a blessing for me and the people....below is a few pictures from Emilee Connell ans Jennifer Ambrose visit earlier this year...The girls were able to participate in a vacation bible school sponsored by Heritage church in Moultrie, spend a few days a a kindergarden/daycare center as well as visit comminities and we spent a few days in Teg. the capital city for a medical brigade...
Thanks Emilee and Jennifer for coming and sharing your time and love with the people of Honduras