Verse of the Day: “Be
strong and brave, because the Lord your God will go with you. He will never leave you or forsake you.”
Deuteronomy 31:6
Riding in Style |
Today was a bit of different day where no clinic visits
were scheduled. We instead had the
opportunity to visit some of the local orphanages. But the day started at the church I talked
about on the first day, Pastor Jay’s church that sits on the compound. Daily there are many that meet for 6am prayer
and worship time. Since we are usually
eating breakfast and packing up for clinic at that time we haven’t been able to
go yet, but were very blessed to be able to attend this morning. God has been putting Pastor Jay and his
church on my heart. I went on a walk
last night and looking over the houses in the valley below my heart became
overwhelmed. When God does things, Satan
attacks. God is doing amazing things
through Pastor Jay and I felt very led to pray against any attacks Satan may
have on him or his church. I ended up
prayer walking around the church 3 times and this morning during prayer time
this was again all I could think about.
So I just went up to the balcony and prayed—prayed protection and life
over the vibrance of it’s people. I have
no idea why this was on my heart and I don’t need to know—but I love knowing
God is faithfully working behind the scenes!
Riding in a Tap Tap |
Our first stop was made via a local “tap-tap” which is a
pick-up with 2 benches, a covered top, and an open back that at least 12-15
people cram into as their taxi system.
We went to a mission school that 2 of our translators (Wilgins &
Prophet) started. We got to see their
classrooms and interrupt their learning for a hot second. It was awesome to see bot
h of them who grew
up in orphanages themselves with such a passion to give back to their community
in this way.
We then got to meet up with what may be an amazing
connection in the future. Kathy & Mark Fulton are missionaries down here
running medical missions. They have started Hopital L’Eglise de Dieu Reforme
(Reformed Church of God Hospital) and are in the process of starting smaller
mobile clinics with the goal of establishing the ability to host short term
teams. To further confirm that this was
another one of the million “God things” this week, they just so happen to be
having a reknowned eye surgeon coming to visit who will likely be able to operate
on a patient we saw earlier this week with a retinal blastoma (eye cancer) that
would otherwise likely not be able to be treated! In addition they have inherited a full
prosthetics lab and clinic developed from leftovers after a lot of aid flooded
the area post the 2010 earthquake. In
God’s timing he allowed their paths to cross with our team and both parties
benefitted from the encouragement that ensued.
View at lunch |
With every ounce of energy we had left we ended the day
with a huge soccer match with our translators.
So we didn’t get absolutely creamed, they were kind enough to split the
teams evenly and the scores ended fairly close.
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