Part of a family

In the last post I mentioned Christian, the burden he has for discipleship and how God can use that in the ministry with the street-kids. This past couple of weeks we have been blown away by the people God is bringing to us who He can use not only in Proyecto MEFI but in all of Social Ministries.

We had an appointment a couple of weeks ago with a dentist from one of the UNIFAM churches. She feels God has blessed her so much that she just wants to be able to use her gifts and experience to give something back to Him. Until now she has been pushing doors but nothing was opening. She even has her own charitable status and has a clinic quite close to the Drop-In Centre. There will be more meetings in the future with this wonderful lady but from the initial meeting she is more than happy to help out with the kids who are committed to the Drop-In Centre and potentially to help more broadly in the UNIFAM churches too.

We went straight from that meeting to a meeting with Dr. Joel Millar (a Free Methodist missionary from the USA), Jonny and Julie Pollock. One of the UNIFAM pastors had planted the idea in Andrew's head that it would be great to explore the idea of a mobile health clinic. Dr. Joel practices here, Jonny and Julie are qualified nurses (Jonny was a nursing manager) and within the UNIFAM church there is a trained doctor who has run clinics from the La Loma church in the past. Perhaps it is no co-incidence that all of these qualified people are able to get together at this point and put dreams and plans into action potentially. Of course this idea is just that - there is currently no money for such a project but our God is able and will provide in His perfect time. The current thought is that a mobile clinic would be based out of the Drop-In Centre and would be able to travel to different locations offering medical, dental, emotional care etc. Another idea is that while people wait to be treated we could run evangelistic programs alongside e.g. we could have people do a kids' program or tract distribution or chatting one-on-one with people as they wait. It's exciting to think of the potential for reaching many for Christ.

On Friday Andrew met with a psychologist. It became obvious during the course of the appointment that this was not an avenue that would be explored further. The counsellor had actually rejected the New Testament and had some strange and erroneous ideas about Christianity. That was a little more discouraging until he went in the evening to see a work with ladies at risk running in one of the UNIFAM churches. There is a trained Christian Psychologist and his wife who specialises in sexual abuse cases. He spent 2 years training a team of ladies in the church who receive phonecalls from ladies in the community each Friday evening. Together as a group they have grown and they are seeing God work in an amazing way changing the lives of ladies in the community and integrated into the church. This psychologist and his wife are both interested in helping further in Proyecto MEFI but please pray for the ministry in the Cualtitlan Izcalli church. It is called Women in Crisis. Andrew has another meeting this week with the pastor of the church.

God is so amazing. We sometimes feel out of our depth and certainly under-trained but once again we are reminded that this is God's work, not ours and that He has His people, as part of a body, equipped and called to do the works He has planned in advance for them (and us).