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Mpeketoni, Kenya by Lindsey Eaton on 6/17/2010
Part of ministry this month is to visit the local hospital
twice and pray for those who are in need.
The hospital is not what you and I
are used to...
The hospital is....
Unsanitary....
All of the windows are open....
"Resuscitation Corner"
is painted on a wall in the corner of a room....
People in their last stages of TB are laying next to people with stomach ulcers....
There are no masks.
After you have been given care, if you can't pay for it.....no additional care will be given to you but you will accumulate more fee's.
Flies are all over open wounds....
and on and on....
The only thing that is the same is:
PEOPLE ARE IN NEED OF HOPE. THEY ARE IN NEED OF THE LOVE OF JESUS.
We spent a morning at the hospital during our first week in Mpeketoni. We split up into groups and prayed for those who would allow us to do so. After leaving the hospital we shared stories and God led my heart to pray for a mother and her son.....
Danny and Nate gave me the story....
A woman and her son had spent the last 10 days in the hospital counting on the aid of the nurses to heal her son. The woman's 2 1/2 year old son had been badly burned by boiling water from his arm-pit to his bottom on the right side of his body. Skin was falling off. Flies were on his open wounds. The little boy was in so much pain and cried often...
Danny and Nate also felt the pull to support her in her financial need. We found out that it was roughly 3000KSH ($39USD) to be
able to fully pay their bill which included: the hospital stay fee, the cream to help heal his wounds, and it paid for the cleaning out of the wounds from the nurses. It would allow them to
pay for the care they had been experiencing and would allow them to leave the
hospital when necessary.
After hearing all of that.....We went back to the hospital....
I met the woman and her son, heard her story, and prayed for her and we were able to pay her bill in full.
Leaving the hospital I felt obedient and helpless all at the same time. There are so many
people in need! The only thing that would really help them is the love of Jesus. Knowing Him could get them through any circumstance with hope and a purpose.
I will never know the impact our prayers had that day. I don't really need to know. I know that God has them in the palm of His hand. My hope is that seeds were planted to those who
don't know Jesus and I pray that miraculous healings occurred.
Spending time
at the hospital made me realize how important it is to use what I have
been blessed with to bless others. A little can go a long way...
I know that God has blessed me with so much in this life that it can't all be for me....it CAN be used to benefit God's Kingdom.
What has God blessed you with lately that you could use to help others?
