Still Here, Keepin' On

Hello from Guatemala,

First, let me apologize for not responding to so many of you in a timely fashion. You may have noticed that I have not been pestering you with my News Letters. Well here is the scoop.

About 3 weeks ago we finally moved from our rental place to our dorm apartment. What a day of rejoicing! Riechelle has new kitchen cabinets. Now I know you are saying “big deal” or “so what”, well the reason this is a big deal to us is that she has waited a long time to have a decent kitchen, and now she has one.

However, in the process of moving across the street, we had to move the satellite dish that provides our internet service. It has to be directed to the satellite by a technician with special equipment. So that means all you have to do is call a technician in Guatemala city and he will come out immediately and set it up right? Do you know what the Spanish word Manana means? “Tomorrow” We heard that for 3 weeks and so that is why we did not have internet. However to be totally honest here. (Not that I have not been totally honest up to this point), I have also had two wonderful teams here along with 4 young ladies from Charlotte and two others, a photographer and a med student. We are working sun up to sun down to finish the dorm and in between trying to get kids ready for school, homework, and take care of emergencies in between taking medical teams into the remote jungle villages by boat or bus. So I have not had a lot of time on my hands to even get back to people if I'd had internet access. So that may explain why I have been so silent over the past few weeks. Except for as I write this we have internet. It is down right now but I’m sure it will be up, Manana, and then I will send it out (I’ve been saying this for a week now).

I do want to share a few things about the teams that I hope you will enjoy. The team from Charlotte were the Gordon family, the Lawing family and the McAllister family. We had a wonderful time with them and did some very effective clinics even when rain or roads were too muddy, we made it through to get the job done.


Skin Station	They are supposed to be working the pharmacy but they could not help having fun with the kids… (Can’t blame them)


Doing Medical clinics with the bus…	Dr. Lawing doing dentistry in the bus…


The Charlotte Team also decided they wanted to climb Mt Pacaya and see the lava flow.

The Charlotte Medical, Dental, Construction, Electric, Cabinet, Organizing, You name it they can do it TEAM! If they don’t have the skill or talent to do something it can’t be done! Thanks guys!

We also had a team of 9 Nurses from the Beth Israel Hospital of Harvard come and do medical clinics with us in the boat and bus also. These gals were also a wonderful team.

We drove to some remote villages that you would not believe this bus could get to. This village was so remote it does not even have a name. It is known as Lot 6…..

We also had the four gals from Charlotte helping also with Ben the photographer from Charlotte and his friend Niki a Med student from Ireland. We also had a day with our friends the Ephraim family and Phil’s wife, Niki. The med student was named Niki and the team leader for the nurses was also named Niki! I’m changing my name to Niki just to fit in with the group.


Villagers waiting on the river bank for us and the girls from Charlotte

At the end of the two teams we had seen and treated over 1500 patients who had never seen a doctor or had never received any medical care in their lives. We also had used the bus as an emergency room to treat and suture up four patients hit by a truck. These patients would have had to travel 1½ hours to a government hospital if we had not been there with the bus. We were able to treat them here at our dorm in the bus just like a hospital.

The people here know we love them and care about them. They are more and more receptive to the Gospel. Please keep us in your prayers as we move into the evangelism phase. The time is short and the Harvest is ready.

The dorm is looking great and we are now doing the finish work. It is taking a bit longer than we expected due to the high work load of patients right now. I know things will slow down, Manana.

We are still praying for the right shuttle van to come along at a price we can afford. I know God will provide when it is the right time.

OK, I've got to run, but thanks again to everyone for all of your help and support and mostly your prayers.

So they set out and went from village to village, preaching the gospel and healing people everywhere. Luke 9:6

Love You Guys!
God Bless,
In His Service,

Bryan & Riechelle and Kids

Junglemedic Missions
Rio Dulce, Izabal
Guatemala Central America

E-Mail: Bryan@JungleMedicMissions.org
Web Site: http://www.junglemedicmissions.org/

This page was last updated 08/28/06