Front row L-R: Vernon Hardy, Elaine Smith, Terry McCorkle, Lei Bragg, Ginny Smith, and Brenda Thompson. Back row L-R: Milton Gray, Sidney Lanier, Ben Smith, Bo Lariscy, Barry Thompson and Wilder Smith

First United Methodist Church of Swainsboro, Georgia sponsored its first short term mission trip in ten years and its very first with Mission on the Move. A combination medical/construction team left Atlanta Airport with twelve excited members on June 30 to spend eight days in the Santa Elena area of Honduras. Seven of the team members were first-time missioners and, though a bit anxious about what was ahead of them, all members were confident that the Lord had guided the formation of the team and that He was going before us.

The medical team consisted of three medical providers, an EMT, an ER tech and two pharmacy personnel. They provided services to over 500 patients in Santa Elena, Yellow Water, and Aqua Azul communities treating conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, upper respiratory infections, urinary tract infections, parasites, scabies, fungus infections, reflux, cellulitis and one case of emergency allergic reaction.

The five-man construction team poured a concrete floor and hung the doors and shutters in a house that had been recently built by another MOM team, poured the foundation for a bathroom in another house, and poured the foundation and concrete posts for the fence around the house where Sylvia operates the MOM feeding program.

These mission objectives could never have been accomplished without the prior planning of our on-site missionaries Steve and Hope Shearouse and our interpreters Anna Smith, Ernesto Lopez and Pablo Chavarria. Our team returned July 8th with not only a renewed appreciation for our own country but an excitement about carrying the message of Jesus Christ to the people of Honduras though our service.

H. Wilder Smith