Tomorrow I am leaving for my third Medical Mission Trip to Jamaica, and I couldn't be more excited. On this blog, I'm going to do my very best to regularly post through the week about what we find ourselves up to. I'll be doing this through just my iPhone, so forgive me my grammar and formatting errors!
I am traveling again with a group from Ginghamsburg Church, led by Dr. Steve Guy. We will be working with the the mission organization American-Caribbean Experience (ACE), which is based in Atlanta, Georgia, stateside, and in Galina, St. Mary Parish, Jamaica, abroad. ACE owns and operates a hotel, Galina Breeze, through which they feed and house volunteering missionaries, and offer typical hotel services to the people of St. Mary. Our group will be made up of Medical Doctors, Dentists, Chiropractors, Medical Students, and other health professionals. We will be working this week in several clinics throughout St. Mary Parrish to staff clinics that the government otherwise doesn't have the resources to keep operational. These tend to be in the smaller, more remote towns of the countryside, and the people that we see many times don't have the ability to hire a taxi to drive them to a larger town where they could receive free or reduced price medical care.
My goal this week is to be more present to the people that I'm serving. To talk to them more. To learn from them more. My favorite experiences over my previous trips have been when I had the opportunity to talk with my patients. But, I feel I did that very little because I kept myself quickly working to treat them. I'd like to slow down ever so slightly to allow that time to connect a little bit more with my Jamaican brothers and sisters. I'd love to be able to extend that communication to you here, too.
Wish us luck this week and keep us, ACE, the Ginghamsburg group, and the Jamaicans, covered in prayer this week. Thank you!
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