Honduras Medical Evangelism Team 2013
by Lyssie Gomez
I went to Honduras in the summer of 2013 with 63 other brothers and sisters from Los Angeles, Irvine, and Ohio. We went in partnership with World Gospel Outreach (WGO), an organization made up of missionaries who’d left their comfortable homes in the United States and relocated to Honduras in obedience to the Great Commission found in Matthew 28:18-20. They regularly led teams from North America on medical brigades to provide health care to the impoverished living in and around Tegu- cigalpa, Honduras.
The team held medical brigades for four days out of our one week in Honduras, and visited WGO’s orphanage, Rancho Ebene- zer, for one day. At the medical brigades, we provided medical attention in optometry, dentistry, physical therapy, and general medicine, helped make cement floors for a few families each brigade day, and held VBS for the children. Of all these unique opportunities to serve the Hondurans and reflect the love of Christ, God provided an even greater avenue for each of us to ver- bally share the gospel of Jesus Christ in the evangelism corner. Each person we served came to the evangelism corner after their physical check-ups and, with the help of amazing translators and by God’s grace, the gospel was shared to each person. God used each person I met in Honduras - from the translators I worked with, to the people I was able to serve - to remind me of His saving grace and power (Romans 1:16), and my responsibility, as someone whom Jesus Christ has ransomed, to pursue the lost and share with them the riches of the gospel of Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 5:19-20).
In one week, the team provided medical care to over 4,000 people; of which, more than 500 came to believe in the Savior and over 172 recommitted their lives to Christ. Our team of 63 people left Honduras in awe of our Lord and Savior.
The team held medical brigades for four days out of our one week in Honduras, and visited WGO’s orphanage, Rancho Ebene- zer, for one day. At the medical brigades, we provided medical attention in optometry, dentistry, physical therapy, and general medicine, helped make cement floors for a few families each brigade day, and held VBS for the children. Of all these unique opportunities to serve the Hondurans and reflect the love of Christ, God provided an even greater avenue for each of us to ver- bally share the gospel of Jesus Christ in the evangelism corner. Each person we served came to the evangelism corner after their physical check-ups and, with the help of amazing translators and by God’s grace, the gospel was shared to each person. God used each person I met in Honduras - from the translators I worked with, to the people I was able to serve - to remind me of His saving grace and power (Romans 1:16), and my responsibility, as someone whom Jesus Christ has ransomed, to pursue the lost and share with them the riches of the gospel of Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 5:19-20).
In one week, the team provided medical care to over 4,000 people; of which, more than 500 came to believe in the Savior and over 172 recommitted their lives to Christ. Our team of 63 people left Honduras in awe of our Lord and Savior.