Oct 3rd

It was another day of seeing patients and visiting families. We had about 20 patients and were able to sharing the gospel with most of them. Glory to our God, there were 4 people accepted Christ and 1 guy is almost ready. We are sure that God has His plan for this guy and we have done our part. Alan, Eva and Emily had a chance to visit some Sunday school children’s families today. Despite the safety issues and living condition, we realize that some family is happier. This family has parents that really care for their children and try to spend time and communicate with the kids. They still live a busy life running a store and also worry about the language barrier, but they try their best anyway. The children in this family seem more responsive and out going. They were comfortable hanging out with us and carry conversation with us. We were glad to see that it’s not absolute sadness for the families living in Belize City. Either way, we do realize the urgency for them to know God and be able to get strength and comfort from God. That’s their only refuge and hope.

We ended the medical services after dinner time as there weren’t anymore patient. We took the chance to do our second team retreat instead. God granted us many good discussions and thoughts to ponder on. In the review time, we all had a lot to share. God always use us in our area of weakness so we realize the power of God and were able to glorify Him. Some of us are not very experienced with personal Gospel sharing, but thanks God that He gave us chances to practice and let us take part in planting the seed. We had a great chance observing and learning from the experienced teammates. This will help us establish a firm conversation and lead to sharing about the Gospel. Some of us realize that there’s special skill dealing with people with Chinese culture by not labeling them as sinner and respecting their “cultural believes”. While dealing with ones with busy lifestyle, we should always focus on establishing their personal relationship with God. We should not to push them to attend church activities and Sunday worship.

Oct 2nd

It was another slow day; we had a total of 22 patients only. We weren’t able to have in depth sharing with the patients as they usually come as family with little kids running around or in bigger group where they carry their own conversations. There weren’t any accepted Christ today. As there were only few patients, half of the team went out to visit local families in the afternoon. Dr. Chan, Dr. Chui and Emily went to visit a few Sunday school kids’ families with Fred, one of the GB from the local church. After dinner, we hosted our first seminar on Hepatitis by Dr. Law, and GI illnesses by Dr. Chui. There were less then 20 people attended while most are from the church.

Today started with some disappointment, but by God’s grace, we gained a lot from the sharing among us. Some of us see our weakness in sharing gospel. We realize that it takes training and practices to be able to share gospel through our day to day conversation.

The 3 that went to visit families had lots of thoughts and reflection, too. We really need to pray for the Chinese families in Belize City, as most of them lives in great fear. Children are “jailed” in their home; generation gap and language barrier between parents and children is a great problem also. Another concern for the Chinese families is that there’s no Cantonese speaking doctor in Belize City. Most people find the local doctor not trust worthy either. Most of the time, they do not address their health issues in time, and do not get the necessary treatments needed. They just wait till they go back to China to have check up and try to get medications. We learnt so much about the problems these people face living in Belize City and it helped us to appreciate our lives a lot more.



Thanks God for protecting the meds. The trailor has a bad leak in the pharmacy corner. After the over night rain storm, lot's of the meds was soaked in water. Luckily, only the paper boxes were soaked, all the meds that got wet are protected inside the plastic bottle. The paper packaged meds were not by the window.

Oct 1st

We cooked our own breakfast in the morning. Then we started our day with the group devotion. We arrived at the church around 9 and started to see patients around 9:30am. We had a total of 27 patients on the first day. God really blessed us with a great encouragement as 5 Patients accepted Christ. Today's experience showed most of us, how much we need to depends on God guidance to share the Gospel. Although the main language of this church is Mandarin, lots of the patients are Cantonese speaker from Southern China. We joined the regular church prayer meeting at night. Dr. Chan, Emily and Eva shared their testimonies. We reviewed our service together at night and shared our thoughts.

Sept 30th

Both teams met up at Houston airport and took the same flight down to Belize. We went through Belize custom quite smoothly. The custom insisted to open and check all the meds that we brought. They charged us tax and a “quarantine fee” for the meds and some books that we brought along as gifts. They also kept a few bottles of meds. All our luggage were searched but went through ok. The 2 teams, medical team and visitation team, separated at the airport. Medical team heading the Belize City and the visitation team to Belmopan, a city further away.



















We rested at the B&B for a short time then headed to the church to set up the medical trailer and sort out the meds.














































Then we enjoyed dinner and fellowship with the GB, brothers and sisters of the Belize church. We had our meeting with the GB after dinner to plan and confirm our services during our stay.

Here's the plan:

We will have medical consultation through out the day from 9am to 9pm. We will set up 2 stations and only 2 doctor seeing patient at a time so other can take care of the pharmacy and share the gospel with the patients. We will also plan to visit local Chinese at their business and share the gospel and promote our free medical services.

We will host 3 seminars:
Thursday night will be a seminar by Dr. Law and Dr. Chui in Mandarin, about Hepatitis and common GI track problems, eg. Stomach acid and gas problem, ulcer….etc.
Saturday afternoon will be a seminar by Dr. Chan in English, about First Aid and CPR. The target audience of this seminar is youth.
Sunday night will be a seminar by Dr. Law in Mandarin, about diet and self care for high blood pressure and diabetic patients.

Emily and Eva will host a Children program for about 20 kids, age 6 to 15, on Saturday afternoon.

Thanks God, Emily has recovered faster then expected. She is still suffering from some soreness and pain but her range of motion has improved a lot already. Emily will be going to Belize with the team. Please pray for her, so she won't have too much pain flying down.

The weather forecast said there will be thunderstorm in Belize through out the week. Please continue to pray for good weather so the missionary work can go smooth.

As our team includes members from different cities, all members will meet up at Houston airport and fly down to Belize together. Please pray for our first meeting with the whole team together.

Please pray for each member's health. Also prepare everyone's heart as they step away from their busy life in US and serve together in Belize.

Please pray that everyone will go through custom smoothly.

Special Prayer Request

Please pray for one of our team member, Emily Ho. She and her husband had a car accident on Sunday Night (9/21). They ran into a car in an intersection as that car ran the red light. They both came out with no server injury. Emily is suffering some neck stiffness and soreness while her husband has some shoudler and chest pain from the seat belt. The Dr. recommended Emily to stay home for the week and rest. Please pray for her timely recovery. At this point, she does not know if she can still make it to Belize with the team next week. Please pray for her as she really wants to go.

Prayer Request

1/Thanks God, the Medical License has been granted by the Belize government.

2/May our Lord lead us and bestow us the wisdom to bring the medicines into Belize without any charges.

3/May God prepare the way that the local church leader may find a suitable pickup for towing the Mobile Clinic from a place 60 KM away.

4/Please pray for the spiritual and physical health of each team member.

5/May God bless us with good weather in Belize during the STM trip.

Our Team

Our Medical STM team includes 7 people from 3 different cities. Please pray for each of us.

From San Fransico, CA:

Dr. Abraham Law (MD)

Dr. Francis Chui (MD)

Dr. Kevin Chan (MD)

Alan Au (non-medical assistant)

From Portland, OR:

Emily Ho (Nurse)

Eva Wan (non-medical assistant)

From LA, CA:

Dr. Cheung Yuet Wa (Physician)

貝里斯短宣短片 by CCMUSA

This is the link to the video about CCM's ministry in Belize with commentary in Cantonese.

http://easylink.playstream.com/ccmusa/balize080418_512.rm

Please take a few mins to view the video and keep us in your prayer.

Our Destination---Belize

貝 里 斯 簡 介

貝里斯－這個中美洲小國，引起世界各國人的注目，還是近幾年來事情。 貝國有得天獨厚的自然美景和寬鬆的移民條件，最廣為國人熟知。其他迷 人之處，如氣候宜人、政治安定、民風純樸、重視人權、地廣人稀...， 她零污染的自然生態環境，令去過的人都留下深刻的印象，被譽為中美洲 的伊甸園。貝里斯位在中美洲尤加登半島得西南方，西北與墨西哥接壤西南和瓜地馬 拉相連，東部濱臨加勒比海，面積為台灣三分之二。境內氣候溫和，河渠 縱橫，大部分土地為熱帶雨林覆蓋，一切都還保持著原始特色，未受人為 污染。
　
貝國人口約二十萬，大部分人為拉丁人及東印度群島人，加上少數白人、印度人；中國人有二千人，大部分從事餐館 業，部分老華僑則經營五金、 轉口貿易業，經濟基礎較為雄厚。貝里斯是中美洲唯一以英語做為官方語言的國家，百分之六 十二的人說英語，在中美洲國家中政局最為穩定，自一九八一年獨立以來一直採用英國的政治制度，每五年選舉一次，執政黨即為該國眾議院的多數黨，政治的運作十分理性，人民基本權利受到充份尊重。


貝里斯的美，最值得推荐還是她東 面的加勒比海長達750公里寬35公里的珊瑚礁床。海床上的海水甚淺，呈淺藍色，與遠處的深藍海水有一道明顯的分水嶺。海中小島星羅棋佈，島上高高的椰子樹隨風搖 曳，海灘細沙輕滑柔軟，海鳥悠閒 地空中飛翔，真是一幅熱帶情調的美景。每年從各地前來渡假的人絡驛不絕，給貝國帶來為數可觀的外匯。
在教育方面貝里斯有百分之九十三的人民受過教育，國民知識程度是中美洲之冠，境內教育發達，小學遍佈各地，中學由政府與教會辦理，設於貝里斯市的 St.Catherine 學校有一百多年的歷史，教學嚴謹，有許多華人學生在此校就讀。另有貝里斯大學及東印度大學貝里斯分校等。
移民貝里斯風潮，最高峰時，台灣移民接近一萬人，目前只剩近二千人。中國大陸人在貝里斯大約6,000人，很能吃苦，都很有成就，子女在世界最好的青少年求學環境，學好英西雙語，令家長十分有信心。多數開小雜貨店兼賣飲食， 超過300家，月收入2000美元以上，大家都開創了一片天地，目前已經發展成連鎖店，從大陸進口工業產品，大家分配銷售。