Sunday,
February 19, 2017
Dear
Friends,
Thank you
for praying for our 2017 Panama medical team that just returned. Your prayers were answered.
The team
members were our 2016 boot camp graduates from Berean Baptist Church, a group
of young ladies from The Wilds Christian camp, a missionary from Peru,
missionaries and workers from Panama, and several others from around the United
States. See the team photo on the PDF.
In the early
days of Operation Renewed Hope, teams traveled exclusively to the country of
Panama. On one of those trips, the
doctors discovered a young man, Eli, living in the jungle who was suffering
from acute appendicitis. Without
surgery. Eli would die. Arrangements
were made to travel several hours on the ocean to a city to acquire immediate
surgery for Eli. The surgery was
successful.
Eli
eventually received Christ along with his family, and entered Bible training to
become a preacher and pastor.
Eli has a
great passion for his people, and asked ORH to conduct a clinic in his very
remote area of Panama. The clinic
brought both medical help through the doctors and spiritual help through the
Gospel.
Eli’s
village, and several other villages, enjoyed and benefited greatly from the
team of medical professionals and non-medical workers. All who ministered saw the Lord work
mightily, not only for the Panamanian people, but also in their own hearts. Despite heavy rains and high waters, the team
treated at least 750 patients, and forty-two came to trust Christ as
Savior. Eli and his church will
follow-up on these new converts.
ORH thanks our Panamanian missionaries, Jim and Phyliss
Childress and Thomas Corbello, for their tireless work in developing medical
missions in Panama and for others around the world.
Jan Milton
Operation Renewed Hope
1017 Sage Green Ct.
Raleigh, NC 27610
910-987-5072
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