Container shipment headed to Liberia

Last week, we loaded up and shipped out another container to John F. Kennedy Medical Center in Liberia, West Africa. This container is full of medical equipment that will greatly improve patient care at the hospital-- including 4 x-ray machines (since the hospital currently doesn't have one), surgical instruments, operating room lights, a central suction system, sterilizers and patient monitors, hospital beds, and dental equipment.

We picked just about the coldest day so far this year to load up the container, as you can see from all the layers we're wearing! But we got everything loaded up and shipped out safely, and it's on its way. Mike and Daniel will be headed to Liberia in February to unload the container and install the equipment.

"Christ Therapy": Healing Bodies and Souls

We recently received an update from Nestor Hugo de la Fuente Murillo, our staff pastor / counselor in Bolivia, and I wanted to share some of it with all of you.

Nestor Hugo recently completed a master’s degree in Applied Psychology and Social Intervention, with specialties in geriatric psychology, addictions, sickness, and other areas that will help him to minister more effectively to our patients. He did all of this without using any of his time at the hospital for his studies; instead, he did most of his work on his hour-long commute to and from the hospital, along with some night-long study sessions, “accompanied by Nescafe.”

Nestor Hugo has already begun to see the effects of his study on his ministry. He writes, “With my new degree, I have been able to open an area of “Christ Therapy.” That is to say that my ministry with Hospitals of Hope has improved; my work is wiser, broader, more effective, and much more complete: body, soul, and spirit.”

This is exactly what we want to do at Hospitals of Hope—to show Christ’s love by healing bodies and souls. Please keep Nestor Hugo and the rest of the Hospitals of Hope Bolivia staff in your prayers as they minister to the community around our hospital.