When you are a dentist working at a free medical clinic, you don't always have a nice setting to work in. It may be a rock ledge that the patient lays on, and your friends may watch you get a shot of novocaine!

Marcy holds Fatima's baby. Have you ever seen so much black hair on a baby?

I have no idea what the story is behind this photo of Marcy and Steve. Sometimes when the work at hand is done there is some opportunity to be silly. This must have been one of them.

Another large group will go to La Palma on June 13 and come home on June 20. This group will also help with the move and some of them will go to Ocotepeque, Honduras and begin construction of a new church building there. They will also be preaching and teaching the children.

This group still needs a translator. If you or someone you know can go and help, please contact us.

Please pray for the June trip to La Palma. A large group will go there on June 6 to help with the school and to move the present school to the new building. They will also be teaching VBS classes and preaching and conducting the initial purity classes. This will be a large group. There probably is room for only one or two more in this group that comes home on the 13th.

A small group will be going to La Palma May 5 - 12 to do some personal evangelism, to plan for the June trip, and to investigate the best way to conduct "Purity Classes". The culture there seems to approve, if not encourage, pregnancy out of wedlock. Although our goal has not been to change culture, rather to preach Jesus, we believe this part of the culture needs to change through the teaching of Jesus.

Please pray for the success and safety of this trip.

This ambulance arrived in San Salvador yesterday and was to be given the the Mayor. It was purchased last year by individual members of the Church of Christ and Rotary Clubs. Using a government program that is humanitarian in nature, we had the US Air Force fly it down there on a space-available basis at no cost to us. It was not a fast and easy process. It was driven to Whiteman Air Force Base in central Missouri, flown to Charleston Air Force Base in South Carolina, then to Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and finally to San Salvador.

Now our challenge is to teach them to use it wisely and efficiently. We need to train their operators and medics. We were not allowed to send very much medical equipment/supplies on the plane--not even oxygen bottles. It has a gurney in the rack, a folding gurney, 2 backboards, lots of sheets and blankets and pillows, and a box of gauze. If used properly, it can save lives.

God bless you, Ralph