Carlos Paz: Rus Rus Prayer Report #1

Carlos Paz

Thanks for continuing to follow our blog. As Karen was unable to make the trip due to Winter Storm PAX, we'll post prayer reports from Carlos Paz, MAG's Director of Pastoral Ministries, to keep you informed of the happenings with our ministry down in Honduras. Carlos is already in Rus Rus after leading MAG's East-West Team in a week of VBS and outreach for the children and youth of Rus Rus and Mahbita, a neighboring village. Here's Carlos' first prayer report for the upcoming medical brigade and evangelistic outreach:

February 15
I hope all of you are doing fine after the heavy storm and cold you have had to endure. The weather in Rus Rus, Honduras has obviously been pleasant in comparison.

Hospital Rus Rus and our Cessna 206.

Dave Pulzetti and I have stayed busy doing some small projects at the hospital getting it ready for the arrival of International Health Service's (IHS) medical team and the hundreds of people that will descend on this village starting Tuesday of this coming week. I've been teaching the Bible to youth, adults and soldiers. Yesterday we had a good number of people attend the study I've been leading on the Gospel of John. What a joy for those interested in learning!
 
I am grateful to God that the all fourteen members of the medical team have managed to work things out, despite the recent snow storm that cancelled most of their flights. They all appear to be coming. Several of them are already in Honduras. Westley Wiles, our missionary pilot, will begin to fly them in to our village on Monday. He will make about 5 or 6 flights to the town of Puerto Lempira to haul them, their medicine, supplies, and personal gear back to our airbase and hospital in Rus Rus.

We will soon be very busy interpreting the Miskito language into Spanish, and then Spanish into English so the doctors and nurses can hear what the patients have to say and then interpreting English to Spanish, Spanish to Miskito, in order for the patients to hear what the doctors and nurses are saying. It's a rather time, energy, and labor intensive process. 

In the evenings I'll preach and teach to everyone in the compound having ears to hear. People can be in the village with no lights and very little to do except wait for the next day in the dark. We have the privilege to invite them to an evening service, in the light, and share God's Word with them. We also have literature to share as they return to their villages.

Westley Wiles, our pilot.

Please continue to pray for those already walking from far away to receive medical help and spiritual hope at our clinic, and pray that they will be hungry to learn about God's love and grace. Pray also for Westley, our pilot, who is making all the flights to make this event possible; and for his wife, Denise, who is single-handedly cooking and caring for us and the entire medical team. Thank you! Prayer is where you can make the big difference.

Grateful for you!

Carlos