Set Up Day - Sunday June 20th 2021

 Set Up Day.

Sunday June 20th, 2021


We began our day a little more relaxed than the day before and more relaxed than it will be the rest of the week. After breakfast, we had a little time to get organized and relax and then we headed to church for a worship service with the La Ceibita church.  Always a moving and inspiring service.  Inspiring to see the passion and uninhibited ways that our Honduran friends worship.  They are faithful and passionate Christ centered people.  The services are always very different than our traditional American worship services and usually quite a bit louder too!  It is enjoyable nonetheless.  

Today is Father’s Day in the US and as it turns out also Bruce’s birthday.  So the church in La Ceibita had prepared some fun candy gifts for all the dads on our team and a special birthday cake for Bruce’s birthday.  I’m always amazed at their generosity and kindness and always come away from mission humbled and full-filled.  Not because of the gifts of food or whatever they chose to bless us with, but with the gifts of their love and concern for us.  We come here to serve them but they love to serve us too!  We are family.  


After church, we had a light snack and then got to work organizing the 24+ suitcases of supplies that we brought.  We set up the clinic curtains and pharmacy shelves in preparation for the weeks patients.  Donated school supplies, hygiene kits and other items were sorted and tomorrow we will put items together to distribute to the families and school kids in the area.  We are ready for the week!  


After set up we took a drive to a town called Trujillo.  This is the town where Christopher Columbus landed in 1502.  Some of us took a little stroll on the beach and then we ate dinner, watched the sunset and headed back to the hotel in Tocoa.


Back at the hotel we spent time discussing and planning the strategies for running the clinic.  Covid has definitely presented us with some unique challenges for how we manage the patients in the clinic, but as always we remain flexible and adaptable.  We need to restrict how many people we can have in the building at the same time and triage potential covid patients and plan how those patients will be taken care of in clinic with the safety of others in mind.  This will be different, but we know God’s work is good work and he is with us every step of the way.  


We had the first of our evening devotions which are prepared by a member of our team.  We discussed faith and read from the passages in Hebrews 11.  The passage talks about the various different obstacles that were in the paths of certain people in the Bible; Noah, Moses, Sarah - to name but a few.  But how their faith and perseverance carried them through.  


I shared a small gift to the team of key chains that I had made, but also shared my story about not wanting to give them out to the team at first, because they had too many flaws.  An ah ha moment if you will, persuaded me that they will never be perfect, just like our sinful human selves and that flaws are part of our character and who we are and that is why we need God.  It is always interesting to me to know and recognize where God is in my life.  Tonight’s questions from devotion talk about what hinders us.  Learning to let go and let God is not something that comes easily to me and it often hinders me.  I’m working on it.  


So this week I am going to do my best to not let my fear of flaws and imperfections and my perfectionist tendencies, get in the way of where I need to me.  


Time to rest, there’s a lot of work ahead of us this week!  


Blessings,

Shelley B









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