Victor is in the United States right now with several other Fishers of Men volunteers promoting our latest endeavor - the building of the Yahweh Rapha Medical Center. In Hebrew Yahweh Rapha means "the Lord your healer", which sums up Fishers of Men's vision and mission for the medical center. Yahweh Rapha Medical Center will be a hospital and medical school complex that will seek to meet the needs of those in Mexico who do not have access to government nor private medical care. Quality care will be given in a respectful way, seeking to share the love and hope found in Jesus Christ through the way in which the staff treats the patients with love and excellence. The goal of Yahweh Rapha Medical Center is not only to meet the physical needs of those most in need, but also to meet their spiritual needs by sharing with them the Good News of Jesus Christ.
An architectural rendering of the Yahweh Rapha Medical Center to be built to the southeast of Mexico City
The medical school will seek to train up medical missionaries with both medical and theological training to then go out to the neediest communities throughout the country and establish satellite clinics to meet the physical and spiritual needs of those communities. The satellite clinics will then be able to send their most difficult cases to the central hospital located just outside of Mexico City.
Victor has been gone for nearly a week now, visiting several churches, foundations and The Toledo Hospital sharing the vision that the Lord has given Fishers of Men for the Yahweh Rapha Medical Center. Victor travelled with the Mexican architect who has volunteered his services for this project and has already drawn up the initial plans. The architect has already returned to Mexico, but Victor continues in the U.S. with Dr. Escamilla and Dr. Gisela. Dr. Escamila is a retired military colonel from the Mexican army and physician who volunteers on all of the Evangelistic Medical Mission Crusades, as well as volunteering as the medical director for the hospital project. Dr. Gisela is another volunteer physician on the crusades who grew up in the United States and is serving as Victor's translator during his visit.
Dr. Escamilla, Victor and Dr. Gisela on their visit to The Toledo Hospital
to promote the new Yahweh Rapha Medical Center project
We are excited about the new contacts that the Lord is providing through this visit and new opportunities to share about what the Lord is doing here in Mexico in and through Fishers of Men.
While we continue construction here at Refuge Ranch in order to continue expanding the ministry to children here, we have felt led to undertake the Yahweh Rapha Medical Center project with full confidence in our Lord's ability to provide for the needs of each ministry. It has been exciting to witness individuals get excited about crusades and the hospital project who have felt little attraction to Refuge Ranch and vice versa. Hence, we are the body of Christ, each with his and her own passions, interests and abilities, but together carrying out the Lord's work here on earth.
The other exciting aspect of Victor's visit to the U.S. is that he will be travelling back to Mexico by highway with the Marshall family from Indiana as they move to Refuge Ranch to obey the Lord's call on their lives to become full-time staff members! While the ministries of Fishers of Men are unique and distinct in their own ways, it is always exciting to see they ways in which they all mesh into one. For example, most of our children at Refuge Ranch have come through the Evangelistic Medical Mission Crusades. Victor is now in the U.S. promoting the Yahweh Rapha Medical Center, but will be returning to Mexico with new staff members for Refuge Ranch. The new medical center will provide a place in which our children here at Refuge Ranch can receive medical treatment. The medical school will provide a place for those children at Refuge Ranch who want to go into the medical fields to study and serve the Lord. How exciting!
Thank you for being a part of this through your prayers, giving and active participation!
We continue to covet your prayers for:
- Victor, Dr. Escamilla and Dr. Gisela as they finish up their promotional tour
- for save travels for Victor, Dr. Escamilla and the Marshall family as they travel to Mexico beginning next Monday, October 19
- for continued grace for Julie, kids and the staff of Refuge Ranch as they carry on life without Victor for these two weeks
Let's live for Him with reckless abandon!
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