March 27, 2000

Med students give injections of compassion
___By Laura Cadena
___BGCT Student Ministry
___EL PASO--They traveled from Houston to Juarez to hold medical clinics for approximately 300 residents. Not only did they treat physical ailments, but they showed the

STUDENTS from Rice University and Texas Medical Center treated about 40 patients at three sites a day.

love of Christ and prayed with their patients.
___Despite language barriers, students from Rice University and the Texas Medical Center in Houston saw about 40 patients at three sites a day.
___"I watched some of the Rice students playing with the kids while they were waiting to see the doctors and the translators talking with patients. Sometimes I thought they were doing the real work," said Tony Pruett, a first-year medical student.
___While medical students ministered to residents of Juarez, a group from Rice University gave the building of Primera Iglesia Bautista de Ysleta, a 45-year-old cream-colored church in the Lower El Paso valley, a face-lift, by repainting it.
___"These students could be anywhere else spending their spring break, but there's something very unselfish about them to want to come out and help a foreign community they know nothing about," said Leo Samaniego, coordinator of the El Paso River Ministry.

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SPRING BREAK MISSIONS Where did Jesus spend spring break? Many traveled across the state, but experienced different world Truett students firmly grounded despite ill winds of difficulty For more photos, see the Beach Reach webpage at www.beachreach.org.

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