June 3-8
Besides grieving alongside Hermelinda’s
family, the T.M.E interns have pulled mandioca, killed chickens, shucked corn, milked
a goat and eaten tons of traditional foods.
They’ve visited with each other’s host family, eaten tons of oranges and
drunk even more terere.
Here’s what one student wrote about
their time in clinic with Jeff:
We started helping Dr.
Jeff in his clinic this week, which everyone would agree has been a really cool
hands-on learning experience. We are separated into two groups of three and
alternate days of helping Jeff (Unless there's rain. Rain shuts everything down
here.) So far, we've all taken our fair share of blood pressures, cleaned out
ears, observed ultrasounds, read results of urine tests, and diagnosed cases of
both diabetes and spinal stenosis. It has been cool to watch the way Dr. Jeff
relates to his patients, using medicine as a platform for ministry. Every
morning before seeing patients, he sits with everyone under a sheltered area
and tells a Bible story. They talk about the story and pray before beginning
the day. Everyone is looking forward to helping the rest of the month!
we called this bid-pocolips...a bid feeding frenzy
A face only a mother could love
you don't see this everyday
Na Ignacia and her pet monkey, Monica
and the animals INSIDE the car
yummy sugar cane
He also wrote about our class time:
Almost every day, we
spend some time learning from Dr. Jeff and talking through different topics
that are important for doing ministry in Paraguay. It has been a great
experience and has initiated great conversation from everyone. So far, we have
discussed important points and origins of Paraguayan culture, traditional
Paraguayan religion (extremely wide spread Catholicism mixed with animism), and
the missiology of medical missions. I know everyone is looking forward to
learning more from both the experiences of the McKissick family and our own
experiences here.
We've enjoyed the
chance to get to know the community of missionaries in the same area as the
McKissicks. They and their families form a very strong community of gospel
minded people that are setting a great example of what it looks like to live
out the Great Commission. We look forward to building strong relationships in
the community of Jatity, in the community of the local church body, and in the
community of missionaries.
Friday night we showed Courageous
and had a good turnout and Saturday the interns went to youth group in San
Francisco. It’s exciting the see the
interns bringing their host siblings along to various events. Sunday, unfortunately it rained and church
was cancelled. We did, however, go to
our team mate’s house in San Francisco for a time of worship and lunch.
Bible study
devo at our house
youth group
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