Outlook Mountain Mission, Inc. (OMMI) is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization that was created to help fund medical clinics that will serve families in poorer regions of Guatemala. Since 2011 our church, the Gathering Community Church, in conjunction with Mission Serve and numerous churches throughout the southeast and across the eastern seaboard, has been working directly with the Central Missionary Baptist Church in Jalapa, Guatemala to help plant churches in the towns and villages surrounding Jalapa. We have been able to assist with construction projects, vacation bible school, pastor training, and by conducting mobile medical clinics.
The purpose of the mobile clinics is to show the love of Christ in a practical way by providing much needed medical services to people who do not otherwise have access or necessary funds to seek medical attention. Our mobile clinics are conducted twice yearly during February and July of each year for a week at a time. We evaluate and treat between 1,200 and 1,500 people during each of these clinics. All services including medications are provided free of charge. Our church will continue to run and fund these mobile clinics.
However, in 2021 the Central Missionary Baptist Church has asked us to help build and fund brick and mortar clinic that will provide more permanent medical attention to these underserved people in areas where their churches are located, as well as areas where churches they work closely with throughout Guatemala are located. These clinics will offer more complete medical services and monthly medications that are free of charge to this poor population.
Thanks to the dedication and resolve of our many donors, OMMI was able to purchase property and build a medical clinic in the small community of Conrado de la Cruz in the province of Suchitepeques on the Pacific flood plain on the south western portion of Guatemala. This clinic has been operational Since January of 2023.
OMMI is currently working with a local church in the town of Jalapa to place a second clinc that will serve the community of Las Marias. Pastor Carlos, the founder of Filadelphia church in Las Marias as well as a sister church of Filadelphia el Sapote San Pedro Pinula located up on the mountain passed away in 2020. Since then the Filadelphia church in Las Marias has not been open to serve the Las Marias community. The pastor at Filadelphia el Sapote San Pedro Pinula has also struggled with working a full time job while trying to pastor that church. OMMI and Mission Serve have been working for the last 2 years at Filadelpia Las Marias after the family of Pastor Carlos contacted us. This year, the family has asked us to help them place a new pastor at this location i Las Marias and to place a clinic on their property to help the new pastor reach the community.
OMMI works directly with the local Guatemalan churches. These brick and mortar clinics are directly run and operated by the local churches that we partner with in Guatemala. As you can imagine, the cost of obtaining the land, building the clinic, obtaining medical licensing and operating these clinics is prohibitive for these Guatemalan churches. OMMI has committed to helping these churches where the gospel is being spread and where the love of Christ is being shared.
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