El Salvador Medical Mission 2013

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Posted by on Jan 16, 2013

Monday 1/14/13 Medical Clinic in La Angostura Today is our first clinic. Because there are so many of us we needed two buses and a van full of medical supplies and medicines. There was quite a line waiting for us and before the day is over we will have treated about 250 patients (medical and ...

Clinic #2 in Zacatecoluca, El Salvador 1/16/13 Clinic #2 Zacatecoluca, El Salvador - This was a long hot day, everyone worked very hard today and we helped a lot of people and their children and helped the church there be a witness for Jesus. Dr. Dan Tucker is a real trooper. With hardly any of ...

Free Day in Suchitoto, El Salvador 1/15/13 Suchitoto, El Salvador - We had a free day in the city of Suchitoto, which is an old city built in the 1700's. The city has cobblestone streets and very old Spanish buildings. Below the city there is a lake where some of us went on a boat tour & ...

Our Last Day

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Posted by David Hoffman on Jan 21, 2011

Today we went to San Martin where we help support an after school Bible club.  We partnered with the church there to hold today’s third and final medical clinic for this mission trip.  When we arrived at 9:30am there was already a large crowd of people waiting.  We had to ...

Today the majority of the group hiked up a volcano and then went down inside of it.  It was very beautiful. On the way down the bus driver recommended riding a long and very high zip line that is quite intense.  It runs between 150 to 250 meters, then there’s a switching platform ...

Today we were in Apopa. Pastor Carlos Beana is a lawyer who was saved 11 years ago and planted the church here 2 years ago.   Our Second Medical Clinic    It is in that church building that we held our second medical clinic.  It was very well organized by the pastor and ...

We started the day this morning shopping for souvenirs.  On past trips that would have meant a trip downtown but because of gang violence here it has become too dangerous.  Last year there were two separate incidents in which gangs threw had grenades into the downtown crowds simply for ...

  Waiting to See the Doctor We arrived in La Angostura at 9am to set up a medical clinic and there was already a long line of people waiting. Some had walked through the night – 10 to 12 hours – just to get there.   We set up the medical clinic and pharmacy at the ...

Our First Day

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Posted by David Hoffman on Jan 16, 2011

We arrived in El Salvador late last night and went through customs without any problems.  We were up and on our way bright and early this morning at 6:45am to help with an outreach ministry to some of the street kids here.  This ministry is similar to our Youth Venture only it’s a ...

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