Tuesday, June 10, 2014

First half of Monday was taking care of all the necessary immigration and registering with the local security officials in Baraka. The whole time was hurry up and wait.

Home visits in the afternoon and praying for people was great.

On Tuesday, construction materials were delivered to church all day long. We had a clinic in Alundja, not at the church as originally planned. Team will have to split up for construction and the clinic.

Dr. Miranda has an overview of the first day of the clinic but I know they probably saved at least two lives - an elderly woman and an orphaned baby. We had around 300 people show up this morning to be seen by the doctors. We were able to triage and see around 80 patients because we only had half day to work at the clinic.

We treated babies with infections and malnutrition; people with malaria; adults with various types of wounds, and general medical problems. We have patients who are still there being treated. We will reassess where we are tomorrow.

God has provided.two miracles we had an elderly lady who was very ill and could not afford to go to the hospital as we recommend to her family. Immediately we prayed for God to intervene. We treated her for six hours. She received antibiotics and IV fluids. She also received meds for nausea and pain. When we left today her vitals were stable and she was eating. Praise God!

The construction team was able to get the church footprint laid down, footings started and some manual grading completed. It will take a miracle to complete this huge task.

Keep our work in prayer. There is a very large task ahead of us.