Hi everyone! So good to get your comments. Wish I had better access to this Blog myself. A couple of updates and prayer requests on the hospital construction. First, the Gatti Turbine is up and running, providing me with electricity. I am learning how to walk into the power house and push the right buttons without being afraid.
However, wouldn´t you know, even in the dead of Winter we are haveing the best weather I have ever seen in Amachuma. It is calm, sunny, and around 50 degrees all day every day for the past 2 weeks. At night it goes below freezing but it is still calm as can be and God´s star display is absolutely incredible!!! The drawback to all this is that a Wind Turbine can´t run without wind. So, I am back to candles and not even being able to recharge my cell phone. One of these days we will be back to normal and I will miss the perfect weather.
When I paid my ten workers the end of May, they all told me they wanted to stay and have a meeting with me. They wanted to take off two weeks but to be paid for them, to be paid for all holidays, to have me provide them with insurrance and Bolivian social security benifits. In today´s political atmosphere here, I can´t ignore such requests. So, I have spent hours with our lawyer and the Asociacion Bethel Amachuma board here. I´m not sure of the outcome, but we will have to become much more organized and it will cost plenty. The lawyer assures me it is better to "be prepared" ahead of time and not risk problems with labor disputes.
So, let´s pray together for
1. ´The Turbine . We need to arrange the battery bank in such a way that more power will be available.
2. Our labor hassles. We need wisdom to meet the demands of Bolivian labor laws and still be just and bring honor and glory to God in the process. Pray for us to also find the right workers for new finish work that needs to be done now.
3. The 15 to 20 Amachuma girls that come to a Wednesday night Bible Study are coming for an overnight next week. Just remember us!!!
Goodbye for now. Thanks for your prayers and gifts. God bless you. Judy
BETHEL FOUNDATION MISSION:
Acknowledging the direction of our Heavenly Father, whose goodness knows no bounds, we seek to provide caring and quality health support for the Aymara people in the Andean highlands of Bolivia.
BETHEL FOUNDATION VISION:
- Judy Yund, founder,
- To construct a level II hospital in the village of Amachuma which will serve that community and others nearby. It will also serve as a center from which to reach out with a mobile clinic to more isolated areas. We plan to provide training and supervised clinical experience to medical students, student nurses, and other auxiliary health personnel in partnership with their educational institutions and the Health Department. Emphasis will be on applying Christian values within the Aymara context so that this population can feel that this is "their" Hospital.
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