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Medical Launch Life & Activities
By Corrie Sample
Here is the Medical Launch team :)
Starting on the left is Ruita
(the cook), Aricho (2nd captain
and Ruita’s husband), Lelis (the nurse), Christina (health
educator), Manuel (dentist), Benjamin (engine
mechanic/general maintenance), and in the front next to me
is Jose Viar (Chaplain).
We all look a bit messy because we just got done
having a frosting and flour fight with Christina as the main
target since it was her birthday :) (Aug. 4) It
was absolutely hilarious!
The only people missing in the picture are the boat
captain, Orinson, and the captains’ assistant, Jose Carlos.
This is our audience for one of the last
meetings. Most of the
time the majority of attendees were children.
They absolutely loved the singing and activities that
Christina and Lelis provided.
Each meeting starts with 30 minutes of a movie (such
as Homeward Bound or Moses), which I like because it
attracts people and gets them to come.
After the movie we sing, then the kids go with
Christina and the adults (and older children) stay and
listen to the lesson.
A lesson guide is given to each one to fill out as the topic
is explained. We held
meetings from July 28 – Aug. 12.
This night the children’s program consisted
of skits/charades. In
groups of 4 or 5 they were to act a particular activity,
such as fishing, or a particular person, such as a mother.
Here I think they are either cooking or washing
clothes or something.
I don’t remember.
This group is acting out helping a cripple. The rest of the kids were supposed to guess the activity or the person being acted out. They were really good at it.
Christina has a lot of fun with the kids.
She does health education in the afternoons, then
helps lead the kids programs at night.
Manuel and Jose Carlos making faces for the camera. I’m just surprised that Manuel didn’t cover his face. He really doesn’t like to have his picture taken. Jose Carlos, on the other hand, doesn’t mind.
This is Erika, one of the little girls that latched on to me. She sat beside me at every meeting. She was a real sweetheart. She looks a little wide-eyed here because the flash on my camera is really blinding.
The kids here are drawing and coloring
pictures about David and Goliath.
We often had pictures for them to color over the
story told that night.
It was their favorite activity.
These are a couple of girls that wanted their
picture taken. The
taller one is Lorinda, a very sweet, but shy, girl.
I don’t know the younger one.
She may be Lorinda’s sister or cousin.
Group
picture! I was very
popular this one night that I took my camera.
The kids flocked around me asking me to take pictures
of them with their friends and then wanting to see all of
the ones I took. The
last Sabbath night (Aug. 12) we had a game night for all the
kids. Unfortunately I
didn’t have my camera with me.
But the next village we go to, I have to take
pictures because some of the games were absolutely
hysterical!
Sunday activities :)
The Sunday after the meetings
ended we got in our small boat and went fishing!
It was really easy for me.
All I had to do was sit in the boat and take pictures
:)
However, the rest wasn’t really
hard either. All we
did was let the net out, float down river for a ways, then
pull it back in. We
went out several times.
The first time we got about 50 fish, but the second
only about 24. They
were all pretty small, but apparently just the right size
for eating because everyone on the boat was very happy about
the catch. I am the
only vegetarian on the boat, but that is not a problem
because they don’t have meat very often and when they do
there is always plenty of other food to eat.
And this is the result of
about 10 minutes of work.
Not bad :)
This isn’t even all of them.
Orinson and Jose Carlos are still in the process of
taking the fish out of the net.
This reminds me of the job that Jesus gave us to do.
He calls all of His followers to be fishers of men.
~ Corrie ~
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