Pictures from the Field: Steve Yoder

07.14.11 | 4:13 PM

We’re thrilled to be able to share the following photos provided by Steve Yoder of Stark Truss, who has been on-site assisting with the installation of the trusses. The first picture shows the progress we’ve made this week.  Additional photos are of the vehicle signs we recently received so we can proclaim hope and healing everywhere we drive!

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Thanks so everyone who supports the work God is doing in the hearts of the people living in Peten and throughout Central America.

Everything you give — from your prayers, to financial gifts, to words of encouragement to providing for various needs by traveling to Guatemala or sending resources  — is truly making an eternal difference.

We are blessed to continue to be a blessing!

Tim & Doris Spurrier
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Second Level Trusses Are On!

07.13.2011 | 11:38 AM

Praise God!  All the trusses for the second level have now been installed, and we are in the process of placing the sheet steel roofing.  God is soooooooooo very good to us.

In the pictures I have attached, you will be able to see a tall gringo watching our workers with a careful eye.  That man is Steve Yoder of Stark Truss company located in Canton, Ohio.

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Steve traveled to the Peten to ensure everything was installed properly and the truss system, which was engineered and supplied by Stark Truss, would service Hospital Shalom for many years to come.  Steve was also accompanied by his son Eric and Daniel Miller. Both of these young men worked very hard while they where here.

Doris and I would like to thank all of you who have faithfully supported New Covenant World Missions and Hospital Shalom with your prayers and finances.  Each of you are an integral member of a great team who will continue to serve the people of Central America in the Name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. God bless you!

Read update posted 7/15/11 here.

In His Service,

Tim Spurrier
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Many “Firsts” Taking Place at Hospital Shalom

06.30.2011 | 9:40 PM

Greetings, Everyone:

Well, I have wanted to get a construction update sent out and here it is!

The pictures show that the truss system is ready for sheet metal roofing except for the valley trusses, and Steve Yoder of Stark Truss will be here to help us with that procedure.  Friday, Doris and I have an appointment to talk to a supplier about getting the roofing material here by the middle of next week.

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Praise God everything seems to be going smoothly with construction and we will soon have the hospital second floor under roof.  The rainy season has already started which has caused us to run a little behind schedule.

Our friends from Lifecorps International (in Canada) have been so very faithful in helping us to fund some of our projects at Hospital Shalom.  They have been assisting us with the purchase of new kitchen and laundry equipment.  This week we will be installing much of the new equipment and I can hardly wait to send you pictures of what looks like.  We will be able to provide a wide variety of meals for all types of diet plans.

The laundry will have washing machines dedicated for surgical laundry and other machines for housekeeping laundry and one for general patient laundry.  It will be exciting to see the look on the health inspector’s face because I think we will be the only health care facility in the Peten that meets all the requirements.

And I have another really BIG FIRST.  Several months ago I talked to Jim Moore of Samaritan’s Purse and he offered us some adult ventilators.  They arrived about two weeks ago and yesterday an internal medicine doctor and a respiratory therapist arrived to check out the machines and we are now official.  Now that we have adult ventilators to go with our neonatal ventilators, we are the first non-governmental health care facility in the Peten to offer complete intensive care service.  To God be the Glory!

Well, I better get moving.  Foster and one of the grounds keepers have been on vacation this week so Doris and I have had to pull double duty.  I have been helping with landscaping today and Doris has been busy with a lot of scheduling for the nursing department. Next week one of the cooks goes on vacation, so Doris will be in the kitchen.  Thank God Foster will be back to do the administration work!

Thank you all for all your prayers and support.

In His Service,

Tim Spurrier
On the web: www.NewCovenantWorldMissions.org
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