Dr. Cindy Hoover is a missionary in Mexico.  her service area in Oaxaca includes some of the poorer areas and least hospitable climate of the country.  Diseases such as dengue fever are well known here.  But she has quietly shown the people how, with God's help, they can help themselves to have a healthier and better life.

Soon after her arrival, she began by training her hosts in proper drinking water quality and safety measures to prevent the spread of water-borne infectious diseases and parasites.

Working with local churches and local authorities, she founded a program of health care screening services. She trained volunteer villagers to teach basic hygiene, perform health screening tests, and recognize and refer more serious illnesses for treatment by government physicians. 

This program was expanded when schools of the area invited her volunteers to come provide their first systematic health screening, vision screening and anemia screening.  Short term mission teams of health care professionals from the USA have joined her in implanting this effort.

Working with the women of one village, Dr. Cindy used church-donated seed money and locally pooled resources to help them start a community bank, which they use to fund loans to improve local small businesses. 

 These loans help them to improve their living conditions, learn financial responsibility and decision making skills, and promote goal oriented saving.  Christians and non-Christians have worked side by side. The gospel is heard at bank meetings. The bank has more than doubled in size and is now the source to fund another bank in a neighboring village.  God multiplies his returns many fold.

Dr. Cindy's work preparing God's fields continues. Please remember her and her villagers in your prayers, and contact the office if you wish to help her mission.