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Hello to all my wonderful friends and family,
Let's celebrate! We have FINALLY gotten clear title on the property
and the bulldozer will excavate the site on Monday for the new
clinic. In the light of things, four months from the projected
start date isn't bad. I won't go into all the details but it was
really a stressful experience. I said I would never build another
house after the last house I had built and I should have known that,
especially in Roatan, this wasn't going to be any easier. However,
it should be uphill from now as I have several wonderful people and
groups that are donating their time, talents and money to the
project.
Just to let you know, after the medical/dental clinic is completed,
we are moving right along with a day care center and kindergarten
on the site and hopefully a school nearby but still in the
colonia. Someone told me once that God didn't call me just to do
a "little bit", but wow this is going be a big undertaking.
Last month Dr. William Wallace, and his fiancé, Katie Nicolls from
Marshall University were here to help for two weeks. We had a great
experience and they promised to return. What nice people!
Accomplishments for the month were GREAT! We had five dialysis
machines donated by The Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio
delivered to the municipal hospital in San Pedro Sula. This was no
easy task as Beth Smith, the nurse in the dialysis unit at
Children's can attest. Beth originally presented the offer of the
250 pound machines to me about a year ago. I was confident that we
could get them down here, somehow. After contacting several
agencies to request assistance, Friendships Mission, a great
organization, arranged to have them picked up and delivered to their
Port Charles, Louisiana dock, then they were brought to Roatan by
their ship Hope, and then on to Porta Cortes and from their they
were picked up by the 'bomberos', (the fire department), and taken
to the hospital. The hospital has 225 patients that need dialysis
and had only two machines previously, and they were so thankful to
learn of the donation. And, these are the same machines that they
presently have at their hospital. We have two people on the Island
that need dialysis but don't have the expertise to have dialysis
here so they travel twice a week to the mainland to have their
treatment.
Secondly, we had sent a patient for eye surgery to Mercy Ship, which
is a hospital ship that was in Trujillo, on the mainland for two
months. Marisol had a bad strabismus, lazy eye, all her life and it
prevented her from going to nurses training when she was younger.
Now that the eye is corrected and we are going to start nursing
classes here in Roatan, she may finally realize her dream. She was
so elated with the care she received and spoke so highly of everyone
involved with Mercy Ship, another great organization.
Right now, Joey, Angie, Ally and Jeremy Gruner are here and have a
team of young people coming Sunday that should have been building
shelves and painting the clinic, but alas, no clinic. They have
repaired a playground they constructed last year and have plans to
do some great work in La Colonia.
Several persons have sent donations and medications this month and
many thanks to Linda Houston and her ladies coffee group in
California for their check, and John Ferreira for his faithfulness
in sending over-the-counter medications monthly. John also accepts
donations for the clinic through his ministry, "Kid's 4 Christ".
John Tomlinson, and his grandson Taylor, visited off a cruise ship
last week and brought with them 60 Spanish Bibles which I quickly
gave out to some local pastors to distribute. Some of these went to
Yourgin, a local young man that has a prison ministry. John told me
afterwards that he felt before coming that some of these Bibles were
going to a prison ministry. Hmm, who would think? I have received
several anonamous gifts of medications, clothes and toys that were
left at the internet cafes by visitors to the Island. On the web
site www.roatanet.com, they have a page for donations and many
people coming to visit bring donations for the poor.
I had two volunteers come to my house yesterday that are from
Vancouver, BC. They were referred by one of the dive shops in West
End. They are going to med school in the fall and want to get some
hands-on experience. They are Dave and Aaron and plan on staying
for a month. One never knows from where the help is coming.
Please join us in praying for the success of the building project
and check next month for what I hope is a great update on the clinic.
If you are moved to assist in the construction or assist with clinic
needs, you can send your monetary donations to the following.
Please just put on a piece of paper if you want the money to go to
the construction or assist with my finances. Please don't feel that
this is a request for donations as I feel very strongly that the
Lord is totally in control of the finances for this mission but I do
get asked about donations and don't want to block what the Lord is
doing in your life. God bless you for following His leading.
Worldwide Outreach Services, Inc.
www.outreach-services.org
Suzanne Baggett R.N.
1508 Elma Ruth Dr
Panama City, Fl 32409
Health Professionals Serving Humanity (HPSH)
www.hpsh.org
c/o Scott Howard
502 Serenity Drive
Gahanna, OH 43230
Kid's 4 Christ
Youthfellowship.....com
P.O. Box 373
Bristol, RI 02809
These are all 501C-3 non-profit organizations.
Till next time.
Blessings,
Peggy
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