Medical outreach in Chitay. This small farming community is out of sight but not out of mind. If not for the blowing dust, you’d see that the fields are furrowed and waiting for the rains that hopefully will begin any time now. Meanwhile, five volunteers from Arizona and Texas have come to Guatemala to make a statement. What they have come to say is that “God loves you and has sent us to minister His love to you, the people of Chitay”.
Living Water Teaching (LWT) staff, Bible institute students, missionaries, Guatemalan Doctors, and church members all join with the volunteer team to begin the work of setting up for the first medical campaign of 2018. Medical, dental, and vision supplies, and equipment are packed and loaded for the setup phase in Chitay. Later, pharmacy, vitals, eye clinic, exam, prayer, and waiting areas are readied.
The following morning after prayer, all positions are briefed and by 8am the doors are thrown open. In the earl hours, mostly women with babies slung on their backs with small children in hand, join the lines to be treated. By afternoon older children returning from school and begin to form lines for clinic services. The last hours of the afternoon men begin to show up from the fields and other work. By days end, 354 people have had their physical needs attended, while 41 of these have become new believers in Christ Jesus. That’s a good harvest.
