Archive for June 2016
Greetings From West Africa
Thanks for Your Support! MedSend physicians Drs. Steve and Heather H. (names withheld for security reasons) and their children talk about their life and work in West Africa, including their ministry with “garibout” boys – children who are given to religious leaders for training in the Quran. Sadly, many of these children are beaten regularly…
Read MoreAll My Patients Die (Part 2)
I met Dominga over a year ago while I was serving alongside a medical team in La Concha. She was helping Elizabeth, her eldest daughter, and me serve food to the patients and medical team members. She really should have been a patient herself. The paisley scarf enveloped her head where her hair should have been, and she frequently sat down to rest her weary body. Despite the harsh chemo treatments, she smiled and chopped up tomatoes and onions. She seemed happy enough despite the ravaging effects of the cancer and would live for another year, but inwardly she was dead already.
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Read MoreOur Top 50 Blessings & Challenges
During a temporary period of doubt and discouragement (this happens somewhat cyclically on the mission field, we’ve learned), Kari Jo and I decided we would each make lists of all the bad things we wouldn’t have had to endure if we had not come to Nigeria. Afterward, we would make lists of as many things as we could think of that were good things we have experienced or gained because we chose to follow God’s call for us to move to Nigeria.
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