Meet the students of MET 2008!

Josefina, Marcos, Tomas and I left early this morning for the coast in order to bring back half of the MET students tomorrow. This is a photo of them in front of Clinica Ezell which is our surgical clinic in Montellano. You can see more photos of the clinic on the Health Talents website. It is a very nice facility with about 48 beds for recovery, 3 operating rooms, a pharmacy, a dinning area and a dormitory.

We spent a few hours this afternoon talking about what a typical day will be like, how the students will be able to help in the clinics and what types of patients we usually see. Half of the students will return to the highlands with us and the other half will remain here in the coast. Mid-way though the program the students will trade places so they will have the opportunity to experience both places. There are many differences, two being climate and different language barriers.

Roger and MaryBeth Cowen help organize the program and spend time with the students. They prepared a birthday celebration for those having birthdays in June. Dr. Walter is on the right, anticipating the chocolate cake :)

These four ladies have a birthday in June.... Cassi, Josefina, Melina and Allison.

After cake, we went outside to watch them attack a pinata. They enjoyed it and it was very entertainning for us also! They finished the night with a devotional.

Please pray that the groups will have safe travels through the next few weeks, that they will find opportunities to help serve the people and the patients will be able to see of love of Christ in our actions.