Jungle Kids & Clinics

Hello from Guatemala,

Even Beto got in on the fun and helped feed a little one..

Well I suppose you are getting tired of me telling you I had a great team again, but we really did have a great team here from the Atlanta area. They worked hard and we saw a lot of things in a short period of time. Let me share a few things with you.

We started out with the Jungle Kids program on Saturday and David came down with a team from Maine. They loved helping with the kids and did a great job. They got to see some things a bit different than back home and minister to the kids and village at the same time.

I asked this fella how he liked the breakfast…. Apparently he did not like the Yogurt that goes with the breakfast…

That Saturday afternoon the Guatemalan team finished the Jungle Kids program and as they left I came driving in with the Atlanta team. Then after a day of re-organizing the bus and ER we headed out to do mobile clinics.

This is the village where Daniel lives.

Please keep Daniel in your prayers as he is filling back up with fluids.

To the left is Randy, he flies 767 commercial jets for Delta. To the right is Pastor Sam.

Bruce a Delta airline pilot puts medicine on Eduardo.

We did a lot of clinics, but this kind of captured the essence of what I thought Jesus would do. Sam is a big boy like me, but there these two men sat holding children and not only washing the lice from their hair, but giving them love and attention. I just think that is exactly what Jesus would do if He were there in this village huh? We then went to another village only accessible by water.

These guys could have been using their vacation to go skiing in Vale, but instead they came and put medicine on children like Eduardo who was burned and cannot move his arms. I gotta believe sometimes actions mean more than preaching to these people.

While in the next village Gaby got her chance to be the doctor and I just made sure she gave the right meds. She was great. I know she will be a doctor some day and take my place ministering healing to her own people. You should have seen how the people opened up to her when she spoke their language, Quetchi to them. I am so proud of her.

Just as I thought we could wrap things up and take it easy, a man came and said "My wife is ready to have her baby #6." He asked if I would come and help her. So I checked her. The baby had not descended but she was close. We loaded her in the truck but we were on top of a mountain (Santa Elena) and it is a rough ride down believe me. She was having contractions every 5 to 6 minutes. When we reached the pavement we hit the lights and siren and drove as fast as we could to my Emergency Room. Not long after we arrived, we delivered a baby boy. It was touch and go at first but finally the baby took a breath and he is doing fine along with Momma. I hope she does not name it Bryan. Half the kids in the village are named Bryan and I don't want people getting the wrong idea.

Next day we had a Jungle Kids program in the lower village so I took the lady and her husband and their baby back
up to Santa Elena and her she is walking up the hill to her house with the baby in one arm and her baby items in the other. Now that is a
good woman; Has a kid one day and then the next day back to work. (Why are none of the women reading this laughing?) We then went back down
the mountain to the village of Los Flores for the Jungle Kids program.

This time the Atlanta team got to join the Guatemalan team and feed the kids.

There was one little boy there named Andy. He was the last one to finish his breakfast and even though he was full he finished his meal.

As I was walking to the truck one of the men from the village came up to me and said, "Thank You for what you are doing for our children. This is very good for them." I was floored. God is working not only on the children in these villages but the parents are involved and trust us. They want to get involved more with the program and the little church in this village now has to double its size to accommodate the people that want to come. Folks, God is using this to reach people who have never had Christ's love shown to them. I’m telling you, this Gospel changes lives.

I want to say thanks to the team from Atlanta… You were great!

Well, on a personal note, I took off for the coast today to get my bigger boat to be able to take the next team coming in 4 days. I had welded another axle on the trailer and extended the trailer by 7 more feet. After 2 hours of driving to the coast and on jungle roads we finally got the trailer in the water and ..... the front axle broke off! I was tired and still have not gotten much sleep so I started laughing. The guys looked at me like I was nuts. I could not help it. You know when you get so tired you get giddy? Well, I just laughed and got in the truck and pulled the trailer out of the ocean and we got it fixed enough to get home tonight. Tomorrow, I head out the Rio Dulce river in my smaller boat and then toward Honduras in the ocean and will tow my bigger Amazon boat home. This will be an all day venture if everything goes right. Never a dull moment. (I know I can hear you now saying, "No Rest for the wicked huh?") Well, I am probably not making sense at this point so I'm going to bed. As Red Skelton (He was a comedian on TV when I was a young baby) would say; "Good Night and May God Bless".

In His Service,

Bryan & Riechelle

Rio Dulce, Izabal
Guatemala Central Americaa

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

This page was last updated 03/02/07