Cost of Services: One Chicken
Hospital Loma de Luz doesn’t charge much for its services, especially by American hospital standards. Unlike the public hospitals, Loma de Luz provides excellent care, and unlike the private hospitals, nobody is turned away for lack of funds. Most patients genuinely want to pay for their medical care, but many, particularly those from the mountains who live on a subsistence basis, just can’t do it. Despite their lack of money, patients sometimes bring plantains or vegetables or the occasional live chicken to pay. These edible payments go to good use at the hospital kitchen.
Right now, a young man named Jonathan, who lives in one of the communities around the garbage dump in La Ceiba, is working as a laborer to pay for several weeks of treatment on a severely infected hand. Please pray that his time here will not just provide opportunity to honorably pay a debt, but also allow him to see the Gospel and the good plans God has for him.
Josh’s Jobs: Building a Tower
Every hospital needs a good incinerator, and every good incinerator needs upgraded from time to time. So a couple weeks ago, Josh and several of the guys he works with set up 60’ of scaffolding and went to work putting up a new stack on the recently reworked incinerator. With the new design changes and longer stack, it burns much cleaner than its predecessor. Plus, it provided a fun challenge for the maintenance guys.
Every hospital needs a good incinerator, and every good incinerator needs upgraded from time to time. So a couple weeks ago, Josh and several of the guys he works with set up 60’ of scaffolding and went to work putting up a new stack on the recently reworked incinerator. With the new design changes and longer stack, it burns much cleaner than its predecessor. Plus, it provided a fun challenge for the maintenance guys.
In these photos, Josh, Lorenzo, and Rene are up the scaffolding assembling pieces of the smokestack, which came second hand from an asphalt plant. Josh spent the previous two weeks cleaning out the sections of pipe and getting them ready for re-assembly.
With the incinerator project wrapped up, Josh has been helping upgrade the hospital’s x-ray equipment. The new (new to us, it’s a circa 1980 model) x-ray table actually has all it’s moving parts working, so injured patients won’t have to be moved around as much.
For updates on construction projects and needs, check out the Loma de Luz Blue Collar Blog at: http://www.lomadeluzconstruction.blogspot.com/.
Teaching
In addition to my normal 5-6 hours/week of tutoring missionary kids, I have been teaching English on Thursday mornings at a little Christian bilingual school in the town of Rio Esteban about 5 miles away. It’s been challenging to figure out how best to help, but very fun to get to know the kids and teachers at that school. When I’m teaching, Guildy and Hadley stay home with their beloved babysitter, Dianny, and, since babies are welcome pretty much anywhere in this country, Talby goes along with me.
Summer Plans
Lord willing, we’re planning to spend some time in the States this summer, and we’d like to do as much speaking on behalf of the hospital as we can. So, if your church or small group might be interested in a presentation about the work here, let us know!
Please Pray
1. Breaking of the enemy’s strongholds in Honduras: legalism in the Church, promiscuity, and drug use and trafficking, to name a few.
2. Christ’s love and gospel to be clearly demonstrated through Hospital Loma de Luz every day.
3. Staff needs at Loma de Luz: surgeon, anesthesiologist, family doctors, nurses.
4. Hospital finances.
5. Safety and protection.
Thank You
We are continually amazed and blessed by God’s provision for the hospital and for our family. Thank you so much for partnering with us in this place!
Blessings,
Josh, Linzy, Guildy, Hadley, and Talby
Contact Us:
Josh Browning/ Mike Yost
Apd. 139
La Ceiba, Honduras, Central America
Email: yznil1@yahoo.com
Support for the Browning’s may be sent to:
CornerStone International
PO Box 192
Wilmore, KY
Check made out to “CornerStone International” with “Browning” in the memo.
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