Wednesday 20 January 2016

Rocky Mountain Ministries 2016 Part 1

We are home.  Our whirlwind trip to Mexico for 2016 is over :( We are both happy and sad about that at the same time.

We were honoured to serve with amazing people and reconnect so many friends from past trips and to meet new friends! What a wonderful time we had.  We are so happy about the amount of people that got help and were able to have Christ shared with them over the past 3 weeks. BUT we are sad it went so fast.

We are sorry that we were unable to connect and share with you what was happening day by day, but we were "running" quite a bit of our time there, and the internet was quite slow, which made for difficulties in communicating.  But we would like to share a little of what happened now that we are back home.

Our time with the Rocky Mountain Ministries team was once again a blessing.  They brought along a larger team this year, which gave them a little more freedom to move people around, and some were able to bring their spouses, and or families along with them, it was a joy to be able to meet them!

They arrived on Thursday, the 7th of January and the medical team was off to the races! We had the morning of the Friday to get last minute preparations done and meet with the volunteers and then it was time for the first of our 8 clinics.  

A clinic consists of many different stations for the people to pass through in order to be helped... they are as follows:


1. Sign In (Decision time - Doctor/glasses? or Glasses only?)

2. Vitals

3. Nurses
4. Doctors
(this one has all four of them plus one of the nurses but not their tents)

5. Pharmacy Tent - but not all of our Pharmacists.

6. Oral Hygiene

7. Glasses

8. Prayer and Bibles

If you decided at the beginning you only wanted glasses (which include sunglasses and reading glasses and a simple reading test) you would go from 1. to 6. and 7.  Some did not want glasses, so would go directly from pharmacy to prayer and Bible.  This was the first year we have had any oral hygiene along with the team, and she had her station open until the toothbrushes and paste ran out...

We held 8 clinics, over 1694 people went through; there were 36 on the team from Montana, and 45 volunteers from San Carlos (on different days) as well as staff from La Casa de Esperanza.




3 comments:

  1. What a great health care plan to include prayer! Awesome job guys. 👍😃

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  3. I love how you've gone and given us a visual and explained the process. This helps us to understand more the work that you are all doing. Fabulous!
    Thanks Mat and Donna!

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