Blessings Familia!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hugs and kisses from Katherine, Alianna and David. We pray that in the name of Jesus, all you will be healthier, closer to God, and prosperous in everything you do.
Let me clarify this a bit, God is not Santa Clause! In fact God wants to bless you more every day.
How?
Above all love the Lord before everything else, serve him and he will provide what you need!!!
We are grateful to have had a great year and we are looking forward to what God has in store for us in 2011!
We ended the year with a total of 30 medical clinics, 7000 patients and countless people giving their life to Christ. We had many more accomplishments; Alianna is in school and speaking both Spanish and English, and practicing ballet. Katherine is leading a cell group of teenage girls, and together we
have done two clinics so far this year.
We are planning on more clinics and cell groups this year; our goal is to have more girls commit to their future by getting closer to God and finishing their education. There will a big difference this year with our clinics; we will still have clinics for families, but we are also going to have clinics just for just women. Women in Guatemala are under appreciated, abused sexually, mentally, and made to feel worthless. In our medical clinics I began to notice that the majority of the patients were women from ages 17-50 years old. All of them share a similar story, child abuse, alcoholic husband, depression, suicidal thoughts and feeling abandonment from God.
We have decided to make our clinics for women more like a spa, were going to offer (by faith) hand and face exfoliations, relaxing massage, and most important prayer geared towards their needs. Imagine a women who has four children, a husband that is a raging alcoholic, depressed and desperate; receiving a hand massage, being told that she is special, beautiful, that Jesus loves her, and receiving prayer from other women. Think about it…pretty cool right? We really feel that this can be a ministry that future teams can make part of their short term mission in Guatemala. As a medical missionary I have seen and heard things that would make people want to take antidepressants, yes, it’s that bad. We have 12 year old patients that have been raped, women who have a fatal STD’s due to their husbands infidelity, and by far the worse young girls raped by their own father.
I have a daughter and I would never do anything that would destroy her, Katherine is actually counseling a young who was raped by her father, she was 14 when it happened and now has a two year old son as a result of it. Only God would love someone guilty of that, Gods grace is amazing, thinking of that shows me just how unconditional God’s love is. Our ministry is getting harder and harder we are facing more and more cases like this, as a father I just want to hug our patients and cry with them, as a Christian man, I have to be even more of an example for these women and girls.
Katherine is currently using the book “A purpose driven life” to help a young girls realize that their priceless in God’s eyes. Katherine has done an amazing job so far, the girls are closer to God, behaving better and more confident.
Please pray for us, we need wisdom, protection, and more help with our ministry. Please pray for our marriage, daughter, ministry, and finances. Our support needs to improve, as we go further and further with the clinics, the costs keep rising, but that’s a good problem because more people are hearing the gospel of Jesus Christ. We would like to invite women of God to help us with our women’s medical ministry, we need prayer warriors.
Please pray for Ali she is now imitating what she sees, and we want her from now to develop a sense of fear of the Lord, we don’t want our little girl absorbing bad influences. Please pray for Katherine, the Lord has opened a door with the cell groups, she’s great at it and I would love to see the Lord take her far beyond her dreams. Please pray for me, I need wisdom and favor as a Husband, Father, and missionary.
Lastly, we need nurses, doctors, anybody who wants to help to come down for a week or two and give us a hand.
We would like to thank God for your prayers and support through your giving many have come to hear the gospel in Guatemala. God bless you all!!!
Blessings,
Katherine, Alianna and David
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