10 Feb from Chris in Chula Vista CA
Well, dear friends, it's always an adventure serving the Lord in healthcare missions!
Lori returned safe from San Vicente (you've all heard about that!)... meanwhile, I've been 'in the kitchen, cooking up something new'...
Looks like my work in urban healthcare missions for the poor, marginalized and underserved is growing quickly. These last few weeks, I've been doing 'groundwork' for a new arm of healthcare outreach in the southern portion of San Diego known as City Heights, a location where over 88,000 people from 60 ethnic backgrounds compose one of the most depressed socio-economic regions of the State of California.
So between being 'over there' doing site-visits, being in meetings with ministry leaders involved there, meetings with University nursing faculty about a service-learning project there, lecturing at said University, and holding coffee meetings to pull together a coalition around a radical idea... nurse-run health care centers (versus traditional medical clinics)... well, the thing is quickly picking up momentum...
THEN, this weekend I am going to (urban) Ensenada Mexico to meet with a pastor and members of his church to form a Health Committee that will be the jumping point for healthcare outreach to thier church and surrounding colony. This trip will include some 'community assessment' work in finding out the existing health net in the region, as well as training the committee.
So, not one but TWO new urban healthcare mission projects being launched in 2010...
Pray, my friends, as these things come together, that JESUS will be lifted up, the Father's Kingdom will be furthered, the power of the Holy Spirit will be manifest, and many, many, MANY of the poor, disenfranchised and marginalized will be touched with the power of the Gospel being demonstrated to the poor (Luke 5).
your brother, Chris
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