Weekend Activities pt. 1

Before I say anything, I finally have a brief excerpt from Lou about his experience in being the head doctor in all of these clinics. We are officially finished with these clinics - we did 5 in all. 

Will and Sonia sharing the Gospel at a medical clinic in
Villa Industrial 

"We have had great clinics and a wonderful time for reaching out to the people of Paraguay.  Pastor  Alcides vision is to provide physical and  spiritual help to the people.  We have seen a large number of patients approximately 500 . They ranged in age from 4 months to 101 years  The team has all been engaged in the clinics.  Jayant has helped us work on improving our efficiency using his talents as an industrial engineer.   We also used him to work with Casey in organizing and dispensing our medications.  Marc and Casey did triage. Will and I saw 115 patients by ourselves and I was very tired.  God knew I needed help so He sent us more doctors.


On morning  I was the keynote speaker for a conference on how to prevent hosptal acquired infections.  The Minister of Health for Paraguay introduced the conference.   I was fortunate enough to have Pastor Alcides son Israel who is a senior medical student  serve as my translator.  My Spanish is very poor.  Pastor Matt. Pastor Alcides and Will all joined me at the Hospital visits. We  went to a second Hospital to hold another medical seminar.  I shared  my testimony with the staff at both hospitals.  The next three clinics God provided 3-4 additional doctors which was a blessing to all of us especially me.

After the medical visit the team had an opportunity to share the gospel with the people.  Victoria, Andrew, Portia, Liz and Pastor Matt were all constantly involved with evengelizing through sharing God's word.  Pastor pointed out that the door to door usually  only got one person to come  out but the clinics got entire families out.

Portia didn't think I was busy enough so she found some shut ins for me to do house calls.  Theae were very moving experiences.  I will share more of that experience when we get home.

God has blessed our work as we share His love with His children in Paraguay.  Please continue to pray for our safety and health through our return."

Dr Lou Saravolatz

Yesterday, we were able to participate in the "Arca" performance that was done in the central square of San Lorenzo, where we've done the empty heart skit for the past 2 years. The actors did a great job, and we were able to go through the wordless bracelet with tons of kids. We do that a whole lot here. The medical clinic in Villa Industrial went well also. It was our last one of our time here. There were two dentists working as well. At some point, Dr. Lou came out to where we were making crafts with kids, asking Portia if she had a small pair of scissors and tweezers. When asked why, he said he was getting ready to do a small procedure. Things like that weren't too common either. Everything turned out well in the end.

Last night, we attended "juntos," the youth group here, for the second time. Jayant and Andrew got to participate in an interesting way as well. Jayant was able to share his testimony of how he came to Christ 6 months ago. "How great thou art" is a part of his testimiony, so he sang it to the group in spanish with another Paraguayan to help him out with the some of the words that were harder. Andrew got to preach on 1 John 2, and did a great job explaining about being in Christ, and how the outpouring of his love in our lives is manifested in how we love others, especially those within the church. It was a really wonderful night overall. 

I am out of time for today, tons more to write about, will have to find time later! 

Jayant sharing his testimony and singing at Juntos

Casey with all the nurses who she shared her testimony with