What should a mission team do when it goes from the church? Should it build houses, pour concrete floors, take care of children to give caretakers a break? Christ tells us we should go in to all the world and spread the Gospel, we should love one another as he has loved us, and feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked, visit the sick, go to those in prison and take in strangers.

In February 2006 a team of 18 dedicated Christians on a trip to Lake Yojoa and Tela, Honduras. We were blessed with 4 physicians, 2 nurses, 1 optometrist, 1 dentist, 1 pharmacist 2 lab technologists and 7 other essential personnel. We were joined in Honduras by Steve and Hope Shearouse, Ernesto Lopez, Edgar Eduardo Fuentes Cabrera, Pablo Chavarria and Ruth Molina. We also received help from Susan Brooke and Sylvia Zuniga. We also received help from Noah in Monte Verde and Gabriel in Tela.

Our purpose was to treat the sick and we did see and treat approximately 1200 people and in the process pulled 220 diseased teeth, and gave out several hundred pairs of glasses, treating eye diseases in the process. We gave out free medicines as well as educational materials in Spanish on the following diseases: scabies, lice, ringworm and parasites.

We passed out 200 Spanish new testaments and 25 Spanish-English Bibles to the hotel in Tela. We preached the gospel through Ernesto. At the clinics and we prayed with the individual people. One of the better things we did was to take pictures of the children and sometimes of their families print them out (over 1000) and paste them into prepared folders that presented the message of salvation.

We tried out some new techniques including recording our data on wireless laptop computers, using a microscope and stains to examine blood smears in the lab and the introduction of an new pharmacy system for retrieval of meds. God blessed all our efforts.

As usual we saw people whom we could not help and Steve and Hope are in the process of establishing contacts in San Pedro Sula to care for those adults and children.

We were received as strangers in each of the communities we visited and were made to feel welcome. At the end of the trip I had the same feeling as someone winning the Olympic gold medal. What a Blessing!!!