Heartchangers Partners in ministry making a difference

August 2009

Dear Ministry Partner,

What an adventure! Our team of 33 doctors, dentists, medical students

and children’s ministry workers arrived in Honduras on June 27th to set
up a clinic in the town of San Marcos de Colon, only 15 minutes away
from the Nicaraguan border. The day after we arrived and settled in San
Marcos—Honduras had a COUP! The Honduran president, Zelaya was
forcibly removed from power.
Needless to say for the first couple of days after
the coup we didn’t know what to expect. There
were troops noticeably hanging around the town
armed with automatic weapons. There were
rumors that Chavez of Venezuela was going to
invade through Nicaragua in order to restore the
former President. All of these events were rat-
tling our Honduran hosts—one of our hosts
broke down in tears at the thought of her coun-
try being thrown into war. We were on our
knees praying asking the Lord—what are we to
do? Should we evacuate our team? Or since God called us here,
wont we be safe to continue with the clinics that were planned?
The more we prayed and worshipped God, the more the fear and
concern subsided and a peace washed over our team. Therefore,
with the advice of our CMDA national missions director and up-
dates from the American Embassy in Honduras—we knew we
were to stay. And has we continued on throughout the week, we
able to see 1,400 patients from San Marcos as well as visit 3 surrounding remote villages of El Rodeo, Yusguare, and Duyure. And
throughout the week, just over 150 people indicated decisions for Jesus Christ! How could we leave when God had prepared in ad-
vance for us to do this work for His Kingdom? As a postscript to this story, several days before leaving we decided that it would be
more prudent to fly out of Managua, Nicaragua rather than Tegucigalpa —the Honduran capital city. God watched over us up to the
very end. As we arrived safely home, we heard news reports that the Tegucigalpa airport was shut down because of riots due to Ze-
laya’s attempt to enter back into the country.

Thank you so much for your prayers for our team! Your prayer and financial partnership helped bring not only healing but eternal
hope to the Honduran people. Thank you!

Serving Him Together, P.S. Check out our website at www.cmdaatlanta.org —on the front page is a ministry
minute video which is an interview with Dr. Rick Boden, our team leader during the trip.

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