Dear Old and New Friends,
Here we are at the end of 2008! Where did it go? My goals for the hospital for 2009 come from Isaiah 55. I pray that all associated with Bethel will
- come to God when thirsty
- listen to His word
- inquire of the Lord
- call upon Him
- abandon wicked ways and evil thoughts
- return to the Lord
BECAUSE
if
we
do
so
- we will be satisfied
- we will have LIFE
- God will covenant with us to faithfully
love us
- we will attract and witness to all races
- God will actually glorify us
- God will pity us
- We will be freely forgiven
- We will go out with joy and be led forth
in peace
- All nature will rejoice -
ALL THIS WILL WIN THE LORD A GREAT NAME, IMPERISHABLE, A SIGN FOR ALL TIME.
For 2009 I will pray for you and you pray for me and Bethel Hospital that our lives can truely "win the Lord a great name".
Personal Note: I am in the US for Christmas. My trip this time was unusual because I came with my bags full, full, full of calendars! The hospital board in Bolivia had this idea because the world-wide financial situation has affected us too and the construction funds are down to zero. So, they had me get 1000 calendars printed up with pics of Amachuma and the Hospital construction. Total they weighed 200lbs! Every allowable ounce and then some was taken up by calendars. I had no place to put my clothing so I went to the airport in El Alto with five sets of clothing on me! I figured I was the only thing they weren't going to weigh. The calendars are to be special gifts to donors ($20 suggested). I wasn't going to mention this online, but if you send help for the construction(check made out to Bethel Foundation) to our treasurer Melody at
385 Smith Drive
Tallmadge, Ohio 44278 I will personally mail you a calendar as long as I am in the
US (until Jan 20th) and have access to Melody and the internet.
I have a few pics I will try to get on here soon. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Judy Yund
17.12.08
21.8.08
Update for August 2008
Greetings to anyone willing to read this after so many months!!!
So much happens in Amachuma and with the Bethel Hospital construction - it truly is hard to get into La Paz and have time to access the Internet and get info on this Blog. Today my 1973 Jeep has a hole in the radiator and something with it's carburetor that takes away all it's energy. So, while it is being worked on, I actually have some time to kill.
It has been a long COLD winter here. The nights still go down below zero (C) but the sky is beginning to cloud up occasionally so one of these months we should get some rain instead of just frost and hail and snow. An interesting thing happens here in the mountains before it snows. Up from the warmer valleys come swarms (hundreds) of little yellow birds. The people here call them Canaries and say they are sent to let us know it is going to snow. They only stay for a day and then return to their valleys. Sure enough, within the next couple of days it snows!
Within a month it will be time to plant crops again. Next Monday I have to go sell the last of my extra potatoes and chuños. Also, I have to sell some rabbits. Last Sept. I bought two of them and although many of the descendants have died or gotten eaten by dogs, there are still 30 or so and not enough food around to feed them. I suppose I will eat a few too.
The hospital construction has really come along but a lot of finish work remains to be done. In the dormitory wing the floors, windows , doors, and even doorknobs are in place. Beginning tomorrow we plan to move the clinic over from my house. The dorm wing will serve as a small hospital for the next year or so as the rest of the hospital is finished.
PRESENT PROJECTS:
1. Dentist set-up in one of the rooms of the temporary Hosp. Includes compressor.
2. Water system - there seems to be lots of water in the well, but the windmill has trouble getting it from the well to the huge storage tank.
3. Plumbing - septic and rainwater tubes , showers and toilets and sinks! By the way, we need help with plumbing plans (I have guys who can install if told what to do). Anybody out there like to come for a week or two to help with this? You'd have to pay the travel but I can put you up and feed you once you get here.
4. Electricity installation. Again, this is an area where we could really use some help with the plans. The local electrical company is trying to "urbanize" Amachuma and will be installing some electric lines that will provide Triphasic lines which we can use for the hospital. I am also very excited that they are willing to let us use a two-way electric meter which will let us run electricity from the turbine out onto their network and use from theirs when we need it. This will be a big step since I do believe that our Bergey Turbine is the only one of its kind in the Western part of Bolivia if not in the whole country.
5. Roofing. All of the roof has steel rafters and the price of steel has doubled recently so this is a real challenge. Nicolas is our roofer and we couldn't do without him and his sons. He can solder anything so once in a while we have to get him off the roof for other jobs.
Oh well, that list is long enough. We still have Dr. Roberto full - time and a lot of sick people come. The Aymara folks have so many beliefs surrounding birth, I didn't think I would ever be asked to one of their homes for a birth. But, after 6 years here, last week I was asked to attend an Amachuma birth. Bethel Hospital has had it's first home birth!!! Mom and little boy are doing great. I hope the time will come when they use our birthing center too.
Cinthia and I still have 10 - 20 teen girls coming every Wed. evening for a Bible Study and I teach Sunday School in the little local Baptist church on Sundays. Last month I had the privilege of praying with three girls who had decided they wanted to follow Jesus.
Politics here never cease to be interesting. I don't suppose I should put much on line but your prayers are always in order.
I need to get to the bank before I pick up my car. Some one of you has been so good as to donate $1,000 and I must go pick that up. It will pay for the workers this month. I experience over and over the truth of the promise in Philippians, "My God will supply all your needs". All I can do is to say Thanks and make it stretch as far as possible! One other thing I find is that God never has someone send money ahead of time at all!
Bye for now. I think someone has stolen my digital camera so I will have to get some new pictures taken somehow and put them on this Blog next time. Love in Christ, Judy
So much happens in Amachuma and with the Bethel Hospital construction - it truly is hard to get into La Paz and have time to access the Internet and get info on this Blog. Today my 1973 Jeep has a hole in the radiator and something with it's carburetor that takes away all it's energy. So, while it is being worked on, I actually have some time to kill.
It has been a long COLD winter here. The nights still go down below zero (C) but the sky is beginning to cloud up occasionally so one of these months we should get some rain instead of just frost and hail and snow. An interesting thing happens here in the mountains before it snows. Up from the warmer valleys come swarms (hundreds) of little yellow birds. The people here call them Canaries and say they are sent to let us know it is going to snow. They only stay for a day and then return to their valleys. Sure enough, within the next couple of days it snows!
Within a month it will be time to plant crops again. Next Monday I have to go sell the last of my extra potatoes and chuños. Also, I have to sell some rabbits. Last Sept. I bought two of them and although many of the descendants have died or gotten eaten by dogs, there are still 30 or so and not enough food around to feed them. I suppose I will eat a few too.
The hospital construction has really come along but a lot of finish work remains to be done. In the dormitory wing the floors, windows , doors, and even doorknobs are in place. Beginning tomorrow we plan to move the clinic over from my house. The dorm wing will serve as a small hospital for the next year or so as the rest of the hospital is finished.
PRESENT PROJECTS:
1. Dentist set-up in one of the rooms of the temporary Hosp. Includes compressor.
2. Water system - there seems to be lots of water in the well, but the windmill has trouble getting it from the well to the huge storage tank.
3. Plumbing - septic and rainwater tubes , showers and toilets and sinks! By the way, we need help with plumbing plans (I have guys who can install if told what to do). Anybody out there like to come for a week or two to help with this? You'd have to pay the travel but I can put you up and feed you once you get here.
4. Electricity installation. Again, this is an area where we could really use some help with the plans. The local electrical company is trying to "urbanize" Amachuma and will be installing some electric lines that will provide Triphasic lines which we can use for the hospital. I am also very excited that they are willing to let us use a two-way electric meter which will let us run electricity from the turbine out onto their network and use from theirs when we need it. This will be a big step since I do believe that our Bergey Turbine is the only one of its kind in the Western part of Bolivia if not in the whole country.
5. Roofing. All of the roof has steel rafters and the price of steel has doubled recently so this is a real challenge. Nicolas is our roofer and we couldn't do without him and his sons. He can solder anything so once in a while we have to get him off the roof for other jobs.
Oh well, that list is long enough. We still have Dr. Roberto full - time and a lot of sick people come. The Aymara folks have so many beliefs surrounding birth, I didn't think I would ever be asked to one of their homes for a birth. But, after 6 years here, last week I was asked to attend an Amachuma birth. Bethel Hospital has had it's first home birth!!! Mom and little boy are doing great. I hope the time will come when they use our birthing center too.
Cinthia and I still have 10 - 20 teen girls coming every Wed. evening for a Bible Study and I teach Sunday School in the little local Baptist church on Sundays. Last month I had the privilege of praying with three girls who had decided they wanted to follow Jesus.
Politics here never cease to be interesting. I don't suppose I should put much on line but your prayers are always in order.
I need to get to the bank before I pick up my car. Some one of you has been so good as to donate $1,000 and I must go pick that up. It will pay for the workers this month. I experience over and over the truth of the promise in Philippians, "My God will supply all your needs". All I can do is to say Thanks and make it stretch as far as possible! One other thing I find is that God never has someone send money ahead of time at all!
Bye for now. I think someone has stolen my digital camera so I will have to get some new pictures taken somehow and put them on this Blog next time. Love in Christ, Judy
16.4.08
April 2008 Judy's Journal
Hi everybody! Greetings from 13,000 Ft. up and wintertime. I still haven't gotten all my potatoes , habas, and peas harvested but the new potatoes are delicious and not too many worms. Two of my dogs had pups in March. Cricket, the Golden, had seven lovely pups but they all died of lung problems. (I have a friend who lives a few thousand feet lower who has offered to let Cricket have pups at her place next time). My other dog Chispa is a tiny dog who looks just like a Tibetan Spaniel. She only had two pups but they are the healthiest chubbiest pups you ever hope to see. Why can't Goldens survive the altitude??? I had hoped to sell her pups and have a few badly-needed $'s to buy cement and gravel. Oh well, the good Lord must have other plans. We prayed so hard for those seven little pups. "When you can't see His hand - trust His Heart".
Let me tell you about an OB patient I had this past month. Of course this all happened on a weekend when our Dr. wasn't there! Eva, not her real name, had come to us when she was 17 weeks pregnant with her 11th child - after all the local witch doctors etc. had been unable to cause an abortion. Despite the odds, the baby seemed to be growing well. One day, (in her 30th week), around 1 PM one of her boys came to my door, "please come to my house - my Mom is really bad." Because he could give us few details, Cinthia and I quickly gathered everything from Pit and IVs to a water bottle and blankets to warm a premature baby. Without a 4WD Jeep we couldn't have made it thru all the mud to Eva's house. Eva had her head hanging off the foot of her bed; pale, sweating, barely breathing, unable to speak and baby still attached. The baby had been born at 5 AM and died shortly after. The problem was her placenta which they had been unable to deliver and she had been bleeding for about 7 hours. (Why can't they call us earlier?) Sometimes one really senses God's presence and assistance. This was one of those times! With Pit IM (didn't figure I could get an IV started), and massage and pressure to a worn-out uterus that no longer wanted to contract - the placenta slowly came, the IV catheter went right into the least-impossible vein, and a wire was laying on the dirt floor which was just the right length to drape the IV from the rafters. Two hours later, the bleeding was stopped, she was cleaned up, and best of all was smiling, talking to us and her children and sipping warm broth. We had no blood to give her, but good food, antibiotics, and Vits with Iron have slowly gotten her back on her feet.
That first night when I drove back out to Eva's house to check on her IV, I had the seven little ones living at home gather around her. I explained that their Mom had nearly died and that we must thank God who loved them all enough to give their Mom back. So we did, and I ask you dear reader to do the same!
I don't have access to a computer right now to send pictures and I have to buy roofing steel peices (in spanish Cerchas and correas) and 200 bricks on my way home. So, I'd better go. I'll get some pics to you soon. So much is going on, but the progress is exciting. Pray for funds, experienced workers, and for whoever stole my best saw and the glue for wooden flooring and the wood shaver to fess-up and bring them back.
Trying to "lay hold of that for which Christ once laid hold of me" , Judy
Let me tell you about an OB patient I had this past month. Of course this all happened on a weekend when our Dr. wasn't there! Eva, not her real name, had come to us when she was 17 weeks pregnant with her 11th child - after all the local witch doctors etc. had been unable to cause an abortion. Despite the odds, the baby seemed to be growing well. One day, (in her 30th week), around 1 PM one of her boys came to my door, "please come to my house - my Mom is really bad." Because he could give us few details, Cinthia and I quickly gathered everything from Pit and IVs to a water bottle and blankets to warm a premature baby. Without a 4WD Jeep we couldn't have made it thru all the mud to Eva's house. Eva had her head hanging off the foot of her bed; pale, sweating, barely breathing, unable to speak and baby still attached. The baby had been born at 5 AM and died shortly after. The problem was her placenta which they had been unable to deliver and she had been bleeding for about 7 hours. (Why can't they call us earlier?) Sometimes one really senses God's presence and assistance. This was one of those times! With Pit IM (didn't figure I could get an IV started), and massage and pressure to a worn-out uterus that no longer wanted to contract - the placenta slowly came, the IV catheter went right into the least-impossible vein, and a wire was laying on the dirt floor which was just the right length to drape the IV from the rafters. Two hours later, the bleeding was stopped, she was cleaned up, and best of all was smiling, talking to us and her children and sipping warm broth. We had no blood to give her, but good food, antibiotics, and Vits with Iron have slowly gotten her back on her feet.
That first night when I drove back out to Eva's house to check on her IV, I had the seven little ones living at home gather around her. I explained that their Mom had nearly died and that we must thank God who loved them all enough to give their Mom back. So we did, and I ask you dear reader to do the same!
I don't have access to a computer right now to send pictures and I have to buy roofing steel peices (in spanish Cerchas and correas) and 200 bricks on my way home. So, I'd better go. I'll get some pics to you soon. So much is going on, but the progress is exciting. Pray for funds, experienced workers, and for whoever stole my best saw and the glue for wooden flooring and the wood shaver to fess-up and bring them back.
Trying to "lay hold of that for which Christ once laid hold of me" , Judy
6.2.08
In US for one month-February 2008
Hello Friends!
Can you imagine someone who forgets how to get into their own blogspot? Well, that is me! I think Google finally let me in here just out of pity. To make use of the oportunity, let me wish you Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and Happy Valentines Day
Every once in a while I have to come to this continent to see my three girls, 2 sons-in-law, and above all, my 4 grandchildren.
Construction at the Hospital back in Amachuma continues fast and furious. Eugenio is heading up a crew building the Treatment wing which includes the ER, lab, x-ray, room for 2 dentists, 3 consultation and treatment rooms, the main entry, the ER entry, Waiting room and admitting and administration. Tomorrow they will pour the cement wall for x-ray that goes inside the brick and adobe wall - can't let that radiation out! Then that wing will be ready for a roof. Nicolas and sons are all prepared for this with all their steel trusses welded together and ready to go. Meanwhile Miguel and crew are working on laying plumbing pipes for rain water and the septic system. They are just finishing the septic cistern . Today I was able to get through on the phone to Ruben who , together with Dr. Roberto, supervises everything when I am gone. Miguel needs more pipes than we have money to buy right now and Gabriel and his paint crew didn't pass inspection so his salary will have to be decided when I get back. Always something!!!
Please pray for all these workers - for their safety and that they will be aware that they are working on something that has a BOSS above me or my Boards. I'll try and send some pics while I am here. God bless you all! Judy
Girls in the Bethel Bible Study. Today's lesson included discovering marsh- mallows.
Dr. Roberto, Sandra, and family. (my dog Cricket is helping with the photo) Note the hospital dorm construction in the background.
Can you imagine someone who forgets how to get into their own blogspot? Well, that is me! I think Google finally let me in here just out of pity. To make use of the oportunity, let me wish you Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and Happy Valentines Day
Every once in a while I have to come to this continent to see my three girls, 2 sons-in-law, and above all, my 4 grandchildren.
Construction at the Hospital back in Amachuma continues fast and furious. Eugenio is heading up a crew building the Treatment wing which includes the ER, lab, x-ray, room for 2 dentists, 3 consultation and treatment rooms, the main entry, the ER entry, Waiting room and admitting and administration. Tomorrow they will pour the cement wall for x-ray that goes inside the brick and adobe wall - can't let that radiation out! Then that wing will be ready for a roof. Nicolas and sons are all prepared for this with all their steel trusses welded together and ready to go. Meanwhile Miguel and crew are working on laying plumbing pipes for rain water and the septic system. They are just finishing the septic cistern . Today I was able to get through on the phone to Ruben who , together with Dr. Roberto, supervises everything when I am gone. Miguel needs more pipes than we have money to buy right now and Gabriel and his paint crew didn't pass inspection so his salary will have to be decided when I get back. Always something!!!
Please pray for all these workers - for their safety and that they will be aware that they are working on something that has a BOSS above me or my Boards. I'll try and send some pics while I am here. God bless you all! Judy
Girls in the Bethel Bible Study. Today's lesson included discovering marsh- mallows.
Dr. Roberto, Sandra, and family. (my dog Cricket is helping with the photo) Note the hospital dorm construction in the background.
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