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  • As a volunteer chaplain at Hope I encounter many people  hard pressed by life, and I get to watch as God makes His presence known and brings to those open to Him a sense of peace and an awareness that He cares.

      A quick example; a woman is in distress because her son has just been sent to prison.  She is a Spanish speaker and the interpreter’s husband does prison ministry. The woman weeps to know God cares about her son. 

       Paul writes that we are comforted so we can be God’s instruments to comfort others and I am continually amazed at how that works out with the people I am able to see.

      I have seen people struggling through divorce, facing serious health issues, battling immigration; and in the midst questioning where God is in this mess. The Holy Spirit is able in these times to give me the right words to say because I have faced these same

    struggles and the questions that emerge.

      But what else I have seen is how much people need a savior. They are in a state of despair and apart from Christ, the things they have turned to aren’t working. I have the privilege of sharing with them the one place they can turn and always find help and strength. In many cases this has led to people accepting Christ, and while the burden they carry doesn’t go away, they experience right at that moment the rest that Jesus promised.

      I have literally seen their faces change, and have had people come back in and share how Christ has changed their lives and their perspective, though the circumstances may remain the same. 

      It is a constant reaffirmation of the reality of the presence of God in the middle of the mess.  Mark, Chaplain

  • I volunteer at two different medical facilities - one being HCHC.  Both are fulfilling & satisfying but I will have to say being at HCHC is the  most rewarding as not only is it a service - it is also a ministry.   The people who we see are in real need & so appreciative of what we do for them.   How many times have I heard some variation of "I didn't know there were people like you guys." The truth is, living our comfortable life styles, we could almost say the same thing!  How easily we forget.  One leaves a facility like HCHC with a better understanding of Matt. 25:40 "Inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my breathern you did it to me."  Volunteering at HCHC is being God's hand & God's voice.  It doesn't get any better then that!!      Shirley, LPN

  • As believers we are Christ’s disciples.  As His disciples we must be willing to go where the Holy Spirit leads us.  I have been blessed.  For the past 13 years, God has been preparing me to do His work at Hope Community Health Center.  I first met Dave Engel (Clinic Director) and Ann Engel (Doctor) at Sun Valley Community Church; where we were members and where I receive my basic training in doing mission work.  Time would lead us through different roads, losing contact for years; but bringing us full circle back together at HCHC.  Each morning we begin the day with Scripture and prayer.  I am a bi-lingual receptionist.  I greet the patients, assist them in filling out their paper work, answer phones, and set up appointments, call back patients with lab results, interpret for Dr. Engel and even help clean the office at the days’ end.  All of it essential; but not as rewarding as when I assist the chaplain in assessing the individuals with basic needs such as food, clothing, job assistance and sharing the Gospel.  Experiencing the joy of knowing someone’s life has changed because they have just asked Jesus Christ in their heart is worth every minute, hour or day I am here.  The hardest part of my job is when I have to turn someone away because we are only open 2 days a week and our appointment times are booked several weeks in advance.  It breaks my heart when they say, “I don’t have insurance,” “I don’t have money.”  I just continue to pray and thank God for the patients we are able to help and have faith that in time we will be open more.

    Yvette Leslie - Interpreter

 

 

 

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