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Norma takes part in Angelica's baptism, |
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by Norma Hunt, Missionary Nurse to Honduras |
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| It was looking like he might not make it through the night. I had picked up the little 6-year-old boy as he staggered in weakness after having a breathing treatment, and carried him to his hospital room. Later I gently stroked his soft, black hair and whispered prayers for him. He was unresponsive and breathing with difficulty. His father was there keeping vigil. Dr. Sharon, who has two children of her own, spent the night at the hospital. Can you just imagine what a blessing it was for us a few days later when we sent Jose home with his father? Dr. Jesus had spared his life! |
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Sunday School children who live in the jungle area peer at the camera and happily pose for a picture in the pickup truck. The children like to ride from the church out to the road, about a city block's distance. |
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Sometimes the hospital stories do not appear to have such a hope-filled
ending…but God is at work all the time! Angelica begged God to spare her
3-year-old son, promising Him she would give Him her life if He would only
heal her child. Still Jeremy died and Angelica was in anguish. In the days that followed she decided she "was not going to be mad at the Lord." On the contrary, in the weeks that followed, I heard her say on different occasions that she had made up her mind to follow the Lord no matter what the cost. Now here we were making our way to where she would be baptized. "Cuesta lo que cuesta, he decidido seguir a Cristo." (Whatever the cost, I have decided to follow Jesus.) With much conviction Angelica told me this as we made our way through the stream and over the rocks. I was privileged to take part in the baptism. |
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During the rainy season a lot of people with respiratory problems come for treatment. Norma (left) calms a sick baby, watched by the attending physician, Dr. Shaw Yount. The baby and his brother were both sent home after treatment. |
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| A short-term missionary who helped in the lab at the hospital [missionary hospital where Norma is a nurse] was very touched by the service. She said later that the Lord had been leading her to follow Him in this important step of obedience. A couple of weeks later on the beach near the hospital, there was another baptism! | |||
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