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This was a day of “lasts.” We had our last clinic. Sadness! We have all enjoyed clinic immensely and I will definitely be missing it. I have learned so much from each day of seeing [...]

The town in which we are staying for the next couple of days is where we ended up doing clinic today. It is a fairly large village with, in some ways, more conveniences then others. Carranza is [...]

Tuesday, August 16th Today was a nice break from the busy day at the orphanage yesterday. We all love the kids, and enjoyed every moment there; but practically a whole day watching at least 21 [...]

Today we headed off to the orphanage in Teopisca to take care of the kids so that the orphanage director and his wife could have a day off. They currently don’t have anyone to watch the [...]

This morning we drove about 45 minutes to a village way out in the mountains. They have very little access to medical help. Ruth started taking down names for the clinic before we even made it to [...]

Today the team went to a neighboring town (pueblito) called Palma Real. We held another clinic in their local church building which was a concrete structure with a tin roof and dirt floor. Today, [...]

Finally!! Our long-awaited trip to Chiapas has begun. All the agonizing about what to bring, all the packing, all the main questions asked, and all the goodbyes are said and done! I can hardly [...]

Saturday 6-18] The Work Of Our Hands Psalms 90:17 “Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands upon us; yes, establish the work of our hands!” Today was a [...]

The “church” is the spiritually dark San Juan Chamula which we visited briefly Thursday. The metal Henry is cutting is for a banister for the orphanage.  (The 2-flight concrete [...]

Destinations: San Cristobal, Teopisca/Casa Hogar Canaan Orphanage A highlight of every trip I’ve ever taken to Chiapas, Mexico is getting to spend time at the Casa Hogar Canaan orphanage. On this [...]