Brizas del Mar is a community of Afro Caribbean settlers on the Caribbean coast of Colombia. They are all Methodists, because the Methodist Church is the only one in the community of about 1600 people. The Methodist Church started its work here because no other church is present in the community, something that Methodist in Colombia look at before establishing a new church. It is over an hour by motorbike from the main road. This was my second visit to this community, the first had been with a friend from the USA whose brother worked for UMCOR. The community was proud to share with me its latest achievement possible through international partnerships. The building of a Clinic named after the Clinton Rabb, one of the people killed at the Hotel Montana, during the 2010 Earthquake in Haiti, and brother of the man that had accompanied me on the first visit. The last time we visited the community we had helped to secure a good water supply for the community. During this visit, I saw the excellent clinic that has been built. Four full time workers (Doctor, Pharmacist, nurse and health promotor) provide free health care in the clinic and the community. Bishop Juan Alberto Cardona, insists that people should not pay a cent for the care they receive. The communy has been displaced by waring partie, they have been pushed of their land by large companies exploiting the land to grow palm oil and have to live in small mud huts with three or four
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