Doctors don't save lives.....

I studied all day yesterday at the VCOM building, and left at about 7:30 to eat dinner. Yeah, got locked out of the building when i tried to come back! My card would not work to let us in and all the lights were off. Needless to say, I was upset, because my laptop and all my books were just sitting in one of the study rooms. Well, this morning i tried to find a Building Hours schedule from VCOM in my email account....i have all my emails pop forwarded to my gmail account, and i did a search and came up on this email I sent last year from Honduras.....my first medical missions trip back in Febuary '07. It had 4 or 5 replies to it that I had never read. One from summer, one from Eric, Mom, and Botchy. All telling me how excited they were, and laughing at my stethescope mishap, of course! It was such an encouragement. Here is the email, to just remind us all of how important it is to be in steady prayer, because this can be such a powerful ministry!

Febuary, 2007:
Hello all friends and family!! Just wanted to give you an update and ask for continued prayer support from here on the mission field in Honduras, Central America. We just arrived here in Tacucagalpa, Honduras yesterday afternoon, and after hours of sorting pills and medicines, we woke up at 5 this morning to be in a village for a clinic. The clinic is an all day event....the ENTIRE town showed up. I was blown away at the amount of people winding around the courtyard of the shool building we turned into the clinic for the day. We all walked in and they were just standing there, staring and smiling. We saw 250 patients today....that is 250 patients 7 hours. Our company also worked in the evangelical station.....and miracles happened. A woman was completely healed of back pain she had had for 5 years. Freedom was the word translated for one woman who had just been prayed over. God is working through this ministry, and i am just going crazy over how cool it is. Granted, I went to check the lungs of my first patient today and had my stethescope on backwads....totally tried to play that one off but the attending was watching and laughed....so did i!! It is a great learning environment and pretty much what I was made to do.

I just keep telling myself..."Doctors don't save lives, they only prolong it. Only Jesus can save a life."

Thanks to all of you....i wouldn't be here without you. Please be in prayer for these people and that they will see Jesus in us, even if it is just a smile or touch. I wish i had a way to let you be here to see what God is doing, it is incredible. Lots of Love and thoughts. I'll be home sunday.