FPC Newsletter April 2008 Nicaragua 2008 – Medical Mission Trip June 20-27, 2008 Join us in Bluefields! If you can smile and be welcoming – we need you. If you can write a list of names – we need you. If you have a week to be a witness to your faith – perhaps you need us!
As part of our 2002 trip, Laura Finch recalled: “I knew there would be poverty and illness. I knew there would be Creoles, Mastizos, Miskitos and Ramas and that language and culture might be a barrier between us. I knew I would see a lot of patients and I expected them to be lined up waiting. I thought we would be able to make a go of some sort of clinic. I hoped for a reawakening of spirituality and a lifting of my spirit. I knew it would be hot. I was a bit wary of traveling with a group of people I really didn't know from a bar of soap. I wasn't prepared that the lifting of my spirit would come from those 14 people I didn't know and not from the medical work. I never thought the clinics would be run seamlessly by 15 people who had never worked together before and by 10 who had never even worked in health care. I was impressed that so many Bluefield's Moravians were so committed to their homeland that they would leave a land of wealth to return to their roots.
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We leave Richmond on June 20 and arrive back on the 27th, after a week of caring and sharing with sisters and brothers in need.
Anne Perry remembered Rufino in 2002, “…kidnapped in years past who said he wasn't scared, because God was with him. So whatever happened he knew God would take care of him. He said this with such matter-of-fact conviction, I was awed by his faith. I still am and get chills when I think of his complete and utter trust in the face of such uncertainty, and I am humbled. Perhaps this is what I had been sent to learn.”