Today we traveled to a different village about thirty minutes away. This village was a nice melting pot of Dominicans and Haitians and the church we used for clinic had a nursing home right next door! It was eye opening to see the differences in geriatric care between home and here. The living conditions were similar to any other home we had visited (concrete floors and walls, bumpy cracked floors, unreliable electricity) but this time there were upwards of 50 elderly people living in the large building. We found one lady who said she had been abandoned by her family for becoming Christian and was placed in a nursing home to be looked after. But she was content because even if she didn't have her family, she said she had Jesus.
The church we used for clinic was the largest one yet! The catch? The fans quit on us after about an hour... Say hello to frizzy-haired pictures featured above this blog entry! Today was a relatively "slow" day but after yesterday's excitement, we needed it! Everyone saw a myriad of patients and diseases. The children's ministry bared the heat once again but today seemed to be one of the happiest days because you could hear the kids playing from the back of the church! We returned to the SCORE hotel to rest a bit before dinner. Dinner tonight was called the Argentine BBQ. Pastors from local churches (including Pastor Gregg, who was from our first clinic day) made us an amazing meal of fried plantains, pork ribs, chicken legs, potato salad, and some kind of pork sausage sandwich! And homemade chimichurri sauce!!!!!! (Which I'm very tempted to take home but I don't think customs would appreciate that) The pastors and their families shared their testimonies with us and touched us with their kind words of praise and blessings. It's incredible to know the difference God made in these Pastors' lives for them to come to Christ and it gives us guidance as to what the people here need from the gospel. Please continue to pray for us as we share our own testimonies and heal people as best as we can! And prayers for our families and friends reading this that they may know how much we love them and miss them!
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