Predisan Health Ministries

Predisan serves the communities of olancho province, honduras through 3 main strategic areas to share god's redemptive plan for wholeness. These strategic areas are: 1. Spiritual development that includes providing opportunities to develop a relationship with christ through discipleship, promoting an environment for prayer and training of Predisan's personnel and the communities, training the christian leaders, and strengthening local churches, 2. Holistic healthcare, including primary Health care, disease prevention, primary Health care, specialty care, and rehabilitation, 3. Community transformation, through the promotion of social participation, training of human talent, networking, community projects, healthy school program, leadership development, and water and sanitation. The follow-up of the educational development program beneficiaries, and community pastoral networks are strong components. These strategic areas are implemented through four main programs: spiritual formation, the good samaritan medical center (gsmc), the center for the rehabilitation of patients with addictions (cerepa), and community transformation. The spiritual development program, with 20 chaplains, serves staff, clients and community, as target populations. In 2023, a total of 31,127 pastoral activities were held including devotions, home pastoral visits, counseling sessions, personal prayers, discipleship sessions and other activities. The annual compas conference brought together 147 ministers to discuss challenges the church faces in the 21st century. The holistic healthcare strategic area includes the good samaritan medical center (gsmc), the center for the rehabilitation of patients with addictions (cerepa). The gsmc is now open 24/7 with an emergency room. In 2023, there were 76,900 patient encounters. With a focus on women's Health, there were an additional 2,114 obgyn encounters. Using the matrix model, cerepa treated 197 patients in 2023. The educational development program served 250 high school, elementary and vocational students through a holistic approach not only providing scholarships, but also including pastoral, psychological, medical and academic activities. The virtual classrooms at the gmsc and cededo served 2,578 students with access to internet, ipads and educational activities. 540 students were able to participate in activities in the new science lab. The school lunch program provided 347,391 lunched in 90 schools. In the food security program, educational vegetable gardens were developed and workshops for parents on nutritional needs and safe food handling.