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THE SALUD Y PAZ MISSION

This mission team will be working under the guidance of Salud y Paz (“Health and Peace”), created in 2001 as a project of International Hands in Service, a US 501c3 non-profit corporation, in conjunction with the United Methodist Churches of the USA and Guatemala, and will be representing the team’s home church (Coronado Community United Methodist Church, New Smyrna Beach, Florida).  More information about Salud y Paz can be found at www.saludypaz.org.

THe TEAM LEADERS

Arlen and Brenda Stauffer have led medical mission teams to Nicaragua, Honduras, Bolivia, Peru, Panama, Mexico, and Guatemala.  Mackenzie Stauffer has coordinated the spiritual and devotional focus within the recent medical teams, and has also joined missions to Western Australia, Costa Rica, and India.  Prior mission journals and photos can be viewed at www.CoronadoMissions.org

For more information:

Visit Coronado Community United Methodist Church www.cormeth.com    386-428-6252.

Go to: www.CoronadoMissions.org

Or email Arlen Stauffer, MD: flydoc@CFL.rr.com

 


 

MEDICAL/SURGICAL MISSION TO gUATEMALA                jUNE 17-25, 2006

Serving God…..     Sharing Love.


 

iN THE RURAL HIGHLANDS OF GUATEMALA,

71% OF THE INDIGENOUS MAYAN POPULATION LIVES IN EXTREME POVERTY, EXISTING ON LESS THAN $1.00 (US) PER DAY.

1.For many of the Mayan people, routine medical or dental care is simply out of reach, and emergency care is usually not available or accessible in any form.

2.Living in pain, or dying of pneumonia or other treatable infections, is common.  The most common cause of death in young children is from dehydration due to diarrhea.

3.The very limited resources made available by the Guatemalan government are inadequate to help many of these people.  The floods and mudslides of Hurricane Stan (October ’05) killed thousands, destroyed roads and bridges, and wiped out entire villages.  As usual, the poor suffered the most.

 

you can help!!

There are several ways that you can help the people of Guatemala and this mission team:

how can you help?

1.      Pray for this mission team.

  1. Support this mission financially, with gifts to Coronado Community United Methodist Church, designated specifically for the “Guatemala 2006 Mission”.
  2. Volunteer to become a member of this team.  (Contact Arlen or Brenda Stauffer, 386-423-5057, or flydoc@CFL.rr.com)
  3. Be ready in the Spring for the call to donate supplies: T-shirts, hats, soap, toothbrushes and paste, ibuprofen, etc.

WHO WILL GO?

Every medical mission team needs all kinds of volunteers and helpers.  Of course, there will be doctors and nurses, but, just as important as those people are all the support volunteers on the team.

The support crew will pack ibuprofen into baggies with Spanish instructions, direct patients to the right waiting bench, hold babies while their Moms have surgery, give hugs to teenagers who have had a tooth extracted, play soccer with local kids outside the clinic…. In short, they will be the hands and feet of God that week in Guatemala.

TRIP PLANNING

DATES:  June 17-25, 2006

TRAVEL:  Florida to Guatemala City, then bus to Chichicastenango. 

LODGING:  Here in “Chichi”, at 7000 feet, the team won’t need AC at the hotel.  It’s a 20-minute bus ride each day to the Salud y Paz clinic with the two operating rooms in the village of Camanchaj.

COSTS:  Approximately $1250 per person, which includes travel in Florida, roundtrip airfare to Guatemala City, all bus travel, food, and lodging in Guatemala, translators, cooks, etc.

REQUIREMENTS:  a valid US passport, appropriate vaccinations and medications (www.CDC.gov), and the willingness to commit the time, energy, and financial resources to become a team member that is open to change, that will be used as God’s hands and feet, and that will be flexible and cooperative…