Paraguay Remix

Who doesn't love a baby pic?

We went to Paraguay in June - sounds so simple huh? "hey Norm" what did ya do in June?
"oh I went to Paraguay in June..."

Why is it that those things that sound so simple aren't quite that way. We had the usual issues before going, the worries the small issues that pop up with the Parguayans, they obviously have their own agenda and it doesn't always match ours which is a shame, just a little bit more of understanding and it would make things really easier on everyone, that having been said, they are great people, Mirtha the foundation director down there is amazing, she has so many issues I'm not sure how she gets by a regular week, much less planning for our team to arrive.

The purpose of the trip, supporting the Centro Medico Bautista in Asuncion, Paraguay. We take medical teams down to primarly raise awareness of the work of the Centro Medico. While in Paraguay this past time we conducted outpatient clinics in some very under-served areas outside of Asuncion that had been identified by the Centro Medico Bautista (see previous blogg about that trip in detail). The group was relatively small this year, 15 volunteers but as it turned out (on this as on the other trips) it was the perfect group. God has a way of picking people he wants to go, not necessarily people we would pick to go. If I told you I would prefer to go through resumes and pick the people that went I would be lying to you, we put out the request, these individuals that volunteer feel led to serve and God sends them. Weird that He would know more than we would about who needs to go on these trips.

One of our clinic's outside that day

We or maybe "I" had some concerns about this trip

• We had some concerns over the size of the team - it turned out to be the perfect amount
• We had some concerns about the money needed for medicines at the start of the trip - it turns out we had the perfect amount
• We had some concerns at the amount of money we would have available to donate for scholarships and some other needs the foundation in Paraguay had - it turns out we had the right amount needed
• We had some concerns over logistics - it turns out there were no problems with logistics everything went smoothly
  

Our concerns it turns out were within Gods reach, imagine that, we couldn't have concerns greater than those problems God could handle.

That is the lesson I learned from Paraguay. God doesn't have concerns - he has solutions, if we just shut up and listen.....

It is what It is