Medical Team From Panama City, FL

This morning we said our goodbyes to our dear friends form Panama City, Florida, who spent the last week working along side of us, in 4 different medical clinics. We not only ministered to the physical needs of the people, but more importantly, their spiritual needs. We treated approximately 568 people, with 118 decisions for Christ! What an awesome week for all of us!

Tim worked in several areas of the clinics this time, moving around to wherever his help was needed....triage, pharmacy, seating people, and even playing soccer with some of the children.

I worked in the pharmacy, as I normally do, filling the prescriptions, giving injections, and also helped in training Tammy, a new missionary nurse that has joined our team in the Compassion Ministry.

Aaron helped in counseling one day, for the first time, which was quite a stretch for him, but it went well. He worked along side of Oscar, one of our Master's Commission students. He also learned to make animals and swords out of balloons and passed them out to the kids.

Emily helped tremendously in the pharmacy explaining to the people what there medicines were for and how to take them. She also gave her first injection of vitamin B12 to Dr. Boris, with his encouragement! He has been an amazing mentor to all of us, but has been especially good at teaching Emily so many things in the clinical setting, while at the same time, encouraging her to follow her dreams of becoming a nurse.

We are all so blessed as a family, to be able to minister here in El Salvador in this capacity. Thank you to those of you who help to make this possible. Please continue to keep us in your prayers, and we will keep you in ours, as well.

Blessings!

Tim, Pam, Aaron and Emily

Today is Independence Day here in El Salvador, where most of the businesses are closed and the people can celebrate with their friends and family. For us, it's a day for our kids to catch up on their school work. Tim and I have chosen to homeschool, because we have found it to be more compliant with full time ministry. Although schoolwork seems to be a challenge at times, we count it a blessing that it is generally due to the kids being so actively involved in their own ministries, that causes them to fall behind in their schoolwork!! Their ministry has actually been an education in itself.

I'm reminded of some of the questions that Tim and I were asked when we first told our family and friends that we felt we were called to the mission field. Questions like: "Are you taking your kids?" and, "What if God hasn't called your kids to the mission field?"........We had to explain that God called us as a family and it would be "as a family" we would go!

I have to admit, although I believed that with all of my heart, I never imagined that God would use Aaron and Emily to the extent He is using them. It has been so amazing to stand back and watch the Lord work through them. Not always an easy task, as parents, to release your children to minister in foreign countries, most often times without us. But, we have learned to put them into God's hands and believe that He will watch over them. Tremendous spiritual growth, in each of our children's lives, has been the result of allowing God to use our kids to minister to others.

We pray that this is an encouragement to any parent that is hesitant in allowing their children to go on a mission trip to a foreign country, or to be involved in ministry in the streets of your own community.....God wants to use our youth to reach out to the next generation. Allow Him to use them, it will change their lives, and bless you, as well!

Thank you to all, who support us in prayer and finances. Please continue to pray, as our family brings the compassion of Jesus to the streets in El Salvador and other countries in Central America.

Please keep Aaron in your prayers, as he prepares to minister in the streets of Nicaragua, Honduras and Costa Rica, in November. He will be gone for a whole month with The Warriors (his youth group).

And please pray for Emily, as she will be spending most of November away at camp, taking necessary classes that will allow her to advance in her level of ministry.

Love and Blessings!

Tim, Pam, Aaron and Emily