Yesterday we scoped out where we are to set up the medical portion of the trip. It is in an area much different than Santa Anna. All around are half built houses that represent people's dreams. The houses are little more than what we call sheds. Made from concrete and bricks, they offer little more than protection from the elements. And yet these homes (yes they are homes) are lifelong dreams of the people who live in them.

This setting is going to present huge challenges to the medical team. It will be a challenge to keep a reasonable flow through the clinic. The smells are indescribable. So please be in prayer that all goes smoothly for the next week.

Phil 1:27-30 Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel, and not frightened in anything by your opponents. This is a clear sign to them of their destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God. For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake, engaged in the same conflict that you saw I had and now hear that I still have.