Healing Hearts Missions Team
Healing Hearts is a medical mission ministry of First Baptist Church. Our team is a mixture of nurses, children’s ministry workers, dentists, pharmacists, eye care professionals, helpers of all kinds, dental hygienists, evangelistic teams, doctors, and construction crews. The majority of the team members are not medically trained.
Although we do provide needed medical, eye, and dental care, our main mission is to spread the Word. Many of these people have knowledge of Jesus, but do not know what it means to have a close personal relationship with Him. In Matthew 28:19 the Lord commands us to “Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations”. So there is a place and need for everyone of you -- medical and non-medical – NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED!
Our Brazil Mission Team just returned from a fabulous 07 trip. The dates for next year have already been set so put this on your calendar: July 11-20, 2008.
Our Missions Team for 2008:
Alberto & Becky Bent, Stephanie Aaronson, Krista Austin, Jeff Chapin, Jane Draughon, Kristen Gericke, Gail Gates, and Cheri Sauter
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Brazil Mission Trip - July 11-20, 2008
Our mission team will be journeying to the oceanside city of Rio de Janeiro to work with South Baptist missionaries Ray and Sharon Fairchild. We will be working with the urban poor in the slum areas called "favelas" within the city of Rio. We will work with a local church and hold a medical missions clinic, complete with medical exams, dental extractions and cleanings, eye exams and a pharmacy for filling the prescriptions. The most important part of our group will be our Evangelism Team, which will be working in all the areas of our clinic. We want every person treated to know that they are loved, cared for, and that they can have eternal life.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Brazil is the largest country in South America. It is a country slightly smaller than the US. The National language is Portuguese and the predominant religion is Roman Catholic. Spiritism is also a very popular belief. You will find Rio to be a beautiful city of contrasts. It is a city on the east coast of Brazil with a population of more than 8 million people. As you move from the airport to the hotel you will note vast differences in the economic landscape as well as the physical landscape. It is an enormous mission field - a field that is ready for harvest.
Workers Needed
Doctors, nurses and experienced clinicians in the medical, dental, pharmacy and optometry fields as well as non-medical personnel to assist in various areas and to Evangelism.
