Day 4: Set- Up
Wow…what a day….it is now 9:30pm and it feels like midnight….hopefully the day can be recalled.
From early on the team split up. Mona, Laurice, and Becky traveled very far away with a team from World Vision to visit Laurice’s sponsor child. They were gone the entire day…but they have seen places that none of the rest of us have seen and the pictures are incredible.
The rest of the team took a short shopping detour in the morning. This is always a fun time. We go through an overcrowded area with dozens of shops with thousands of “hand crafted” items J It is a time to haggle and have fun.
The rest of the day was spent getting ready. We traveled to our first clinic location (ANLM Dream Center). We started around 3:30pm with walk through training for the US team and key Rwandan Leaders. Then we did a full walk through training with 20ish people from a dozen or more churches…very exciting. It was a great time and I thoroughly enjoyed training with Rwandans who have never thought about medical clinics being so relationship centered.
After this time we spent the next 4 hours setting up the clinic. This is a lot of hard work moving tables, organizing medications, preparing paperwork. We are all exhausted….but there is joy in our hearts and anticipation for the huge festival this Friday and Saturday, because we had the privelage of setting up while the huge multi-church choir practiced in the building. They will be performing in the huge stadium this weekend…but their practice was heavenly……it was incredible….we all simultaneously went outside and were awestruck at the sound of their unified voices…..It was AWESOME.
Please continue to pray for us…tomorrow starts a 5 day stretch of running clinics like nothing any of us have done before with so much organization, people, and volunteers. We are asking that everything goes so smoothly that we are able to hand off a lot of the flow to Rwandan volunteers by the time some of us have to set up the clinic at the Stadium on Thursday.
July 15, 2009
Tara i hope all is well.. I miss you.. I know you are such a giving person just like mom is,and that you found your calling in your profession of taking care of others and helping the world become a better place.. I am sure this will be a great experience for you and i pray you and your team on doing well god bless you all and have a great trip.. Your brother Larry…
July 15, 2009
Hope someone is getting some video footage of this stuff…
July 15, 2009
It is a privilege to join your team by praying for you all day long. May Christ be glorified through all your words and deeds as you serve Him this week. I pray that each of you will stay well too.
Praise Abba for all the many ways He has lovingly protected this team, thus far!
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