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Effective outreach in Jalisco, Mexico |
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 Dr. Bill Pierce examines a patient at the HCM medical evangelism clinic in Jalisco, Mexico. |
An HCM medical evangelism team
recently returned from Jaliso,
Mexico after
holding a medical outreach clinic with missionaries Rich and Jenni
Demartino. After five days, 1,025
patients were seen and 516 prayed for salvation.
The Demartino's said that there
were 80 new people at church the following Sunday, and that they have had
dozens of new visitors in every service following the clinic.
"The medical clinic is the most
effective outreach we do as a new church plant," Jenni and Rich Demartino
said. "[It gives] an adequate
explanation of the Gospel to a large group of people on a one-on-one basis over
a short period of time."
This clinic was to show the
community that the church cares about their physical needs as well as their
spiritual needs. Patients were cared for
in the areas of medical, dental, and optical.
Blind eyes were literally opened.
Dan Colino, OD, from Frankfurt,
N.Y. shared one such testimony of
a gentleman whose sight was restored with a pair of glasses after being seen in
the optical area of the clinic.
This man said he had lost sight in
one eye due to an accident 10 years earlier.
Dr. Colino examined him and found that his eye was actually myopic, or
nearsighted. He was then fitted for a
pair of glasses and, after living in blindness for so long, was able to see
again.
"I can't imagine all those years
thinking you have a blind eye," Dr Colino said.
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Dr. Dan Colino fits a patient with a pair of eyeglasses at the Mexico clinic. |
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