Our Previous Mission Trip Photos
Photos to come
Our Previous Mission Trip
In Entebbe in the days following our arrival, we helped with a Bible School for the children. They came for 4 days, slept in the school every night and were fed them three meals a day. We also visited the orphanage there to give the kids physicals and to treat the sick children. Over 600 children came to hear the Word and spend their time being children. Their lives are hard, and we generously distributed hugs, had a lot of music and the love of Christ in huge amounts. I never saw so much laughter and love in one place. Sunburn too for us if we were not careful! It was very hot, but being on the shore of Lake Victoria was quite pleasant..
After the Bible school, the team went to Busia (6 hours by bus) on the Kenyan border. We had over 5000 people come to our clinics from the town of Busia and surrounding villages. Our triage team selected the sickest patients and made sure that they did not wait too long. Crowd control was a challenge at times. A big thank you goes to John Gross of Kansas City, Missouri for his expertise in handling the huge numbers. Our RN triage inside did the intake physicals and then directed the patient to the area of the clinic where they could be treated most effectively. IWe had two stations for doctors, one seeing adults and one for children. Our clinic operated from about 9 till we had seen the last patient that intake thought we could handle for the day. On the second day of clinic, patients were returning for recheck, and some even returned to thank us, and tell us that they were already feeling much better! Our largest day was 240 patients. We took 44 boxes of supplies that were given to our charity by various donors and we left them over 800 pounds of medical supplies for 2 local medical clinics in Busia and a village clinic on the border with Kenya. We also fitted adults with reading glasses, and gave out 400 pairs. We gave 6500 packages of seed, and many boxes of supplies to the orphanages. We delivered shoes, and clothing. We gave the empty cargo boxes to the orphanages for storage. On our first day of clinic, we identified a child that needed to come to the US for treatment. We had a team of 23 hard working people! One nurse heard we were coming and traveled 7 hours on a bus from Kenya to our location on the border of Uganda so she could translate Swahili for us!
Volunteer Work
We are doing volunteer medical mission work on the Gulf Coast of Mexico. We have been assisting volunteers that were already involved in a feeding program and we have been sending vitamins, but we are increasingly concerned about the medical needs of the people there.
So we have started sending volunteer nurses and techs to help out. Please see these pictures and know that all we are doing is much needed. We have many mission opportunities there, many young children live on the peninsula, and we are continuing to look at ways to improve the conditions for the children. I just located 3 pallets of sheets, blankets, socks, and many other supplies, which will be shipped to a warehouse in Brownsville, Texas. These supplies will be taken across the border by volunteers.
A Big Thank You!
A big thank you goes out to all our contributors, volunteers, and alliance partners all over the United States. Thank you for your words of encouragement, and your prayers for this ministry. I am always amazed at what is happening, and we want to continue to do our best for the children. Karen Hall, President