Wednesday 2 July 2008

the first medical clinic has been done

Today we held the first medical clinic in Kambi Teso.
It started with singing by the local secondary school, in whose ground we have set up the tents, and then David preached with 8 people giving their lives to Christ at the end. Then followed a sketch by the young people from the school which caused much hilarity, and then prayer ministry before anyone was allowed near a doctor!
In the past clinics have been run with prayer afterwards, which has the danger of limiting God to being an afterthought in the healing process, so switching it round was a step of faith and very exciting. It went down very well, although I must admit that as I was in pharmacy the whole time I didn't get to see if people walked away from the prayer tent without going on the medical tent.
It was extremely busy today as there was only half the team available due to the lack of American contingent. But the Brits held their own, (plus some local medical students and volunteers, and 4 Americans that have arrived from different directions).
I was in charge of the pharmacy, and Shirley, Jonto and Emmy all did a great job in learning very fast how to interpret prescriptions. Dan was on crowd control with Caleb and Mark (US folk), Helen H and Meg did their first days diagnosing Kenyan ailments, and the NGM girls were their usual wonderful selves in prayer and children's ministry. Rachel answered all the medical pharmacy queries, Thuy made everything happen, and David was his usual charming self as well as praying and preaching.
The people we saw have so little; many children turned up with younger siblings, implying child-headed households, and others were many children to one adult. It is a privilege to be able to serve God through these people.
Some of you will have heard me mention Pricilla before; she turned up today with her children, and it was lovely to see them all. They all got treated if required, and were a happy smiling bunch. Later this week I will go down and see them with the gifts for the children that are sponsored.
Tomorrow the US team arrive in Eldoret: we have heard that they are in Nairobi now which is wonderful, so as long as the final flight is good then we will all be together tomorrow at last. Alleluia!
So, our first day is done, and now is time for an evening of relaxing.
God has blessed us greatly already, and we are excited to see how He continues to work in and through us to the people that He places in our path.
Will keep you posted

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