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Landmark team shares medicine and gospel

Each year, students and adults from Landmark Christian School swap a traditional spring break to minister to others in a foreign country.

For the last few years, Landmark's spring mission trip has been to the Olanchito Valley area of Honduras. On their latest trip, students volunteered to forego trips to the beach or the mountains to share their love for Christ by holding medical and dental clinics, and building a church, in the mountain villages of Olanchito.

The Landmark Mission Team was under the direction of Alan and Heidi Winter who have guided Landmark on previous trips to Belize, Venezuela, and Honduras.

In a four-day period the team treated over 800 people in the clinics. One mother walked over four hours with her six children because she heard that a clinic was being held in that village. The Dental Team was led by Dr. Dave Vautin and assisted by Molly Worrell.

Pediatrician Dr. Eric Hoffler and Debbie Howard, a nurse from Southland Nursing Home in Peachtree City, led the Medical Team. Dr. Vautin is a resident of Douglasville and Dr. Hoffler is from Fayetteville. The students assisted both clinical teams by registering the villagers, taking blood pressure and temperature, manning the pharmacy, and helping with ministry.

After the people were cared for physically, the Ministry Team, led by Douglasville attorney Joe Fowler, ministered to them spiritually by presenting the offer of salvation in Christ. Between 85-90 committed their lives to Christ. Becky Joiner, a Lower School teacher at Landmark and a Fayette County resident, assisted by leading the childcare team.

The Construction Team, headed up by Tim King, of Fairburn, and Randy McClain, of Peachtree City, helped build a church for the people in the village of Maloa. During a previous mission trip, the Landmark Mission Team held a clinic in Maloa and enough people responded to the Gospel invitation that they requested help to build a church this year.

The adults and students constructed the church in a three-day period, built the pews for the church, and held a village-wide celebration on the last day.

A highlight of the trip was an area-wide rally held in the Olanchito Civic Center. This was an interdenominational Unity and Prayer Campaign under the direction of local pastor, Rev. Juan Rivera. Rev. Rivera said that he had a desire for all the churches of the Olanchito area to come together and pray for the spiritual and moral concerns of the people. He said that the Honduran people didn't think that such an interdenominational gathering was possible, until the students from Landmark came last year.

Rivera said, "The churches were amazed that a school representing over 170 different churches could work together as a team in the manner that Landmark did, and they thought that if a school could work together like that, then the local churches of the Olanchito Valley could as well." This year, an interdenominational crowd of 4,000 people watched as the Landmark students ministered to them in drama and songs with local pastors encouraging their people to forsake their sins and live for Christ. Plans are underway for this year's mission trip.

For information on Landmark Christian School and their mission team, call Dean of Students, Mike Titus, 770-306-0348.