Hello lovely people, once again we are going on a trip and will be out of the air until thursday night. We are going to meet up with a the team of Itepela which is 110k away from Lichiga and pretty much in the bush. So we are going to pack our car to the roof with people and supplies and join with the team that is doing the micro lab and visit the newborn church of Yao people; there are some 30 believers amidst thousands of Muslims.
But we also did a lot since our last update on the sunday.
On monday we went shopping and we spend ours and hours at immigration in order to get the visa extended (and we have been back another 4 times and it is stil not fixed, maybe this afternoon we will get lucky)and we did a lesson prep because it was raining and there was nothing else we could do.
Tuesday we went to visit Mitawa, be with the granny's, treat Adidia's wound (the epeleptic girl who fell into the fire)and the rest of the morning we joined the nurse in the healthpost. Karen and Frank stayed with the nurse and saw patients that needed diagnosis (a lot of malaria but the tests run out) and an array of other diseases and saw how the nurse prescribed medicines. Frank could translate and Karen was able to explain what the medicine were for. On the other side Lyn and Jill organised the pharmacy; handed out all the prescriptions and gave a few injections (in the bottom, always nice to do). In the afternoon we went to the Farm to do a health teaching on worms and we dewormed a small twenty people. Lyn is going to have dinner tonight so I am sure she will hear some 'interesting results'.
On wednesday we went to the hospital to visit the maternity ward. Lots of women that had cesarean and who were in pain, some had lost their baby in the operation. We handed out baby-hats to the new mothers, tried to comfort everybody with prayer and a kind word and temperatured all the new babies. Some were really to cold so we helped them 'kangaroo' their baby with their babies with their own bodyheat. The hospital is also a place where you hear lots of difficult stories: a ten year old girl was raped. Another 14 year old give birht to hear first baby. We gave them a lift home (she would have to walk otherwise), remembered her house and told her we would visit again. In the afternoon we repeated our handwashing song with our neighbour kids and did a small sunday school lesson with them.
Yesterday morning we visited the baby again that we had brought home. Sandra checked the baby and gave some clothes. The were very encouraged by our visit. After that we went to a restaurant and did some team-processing. It was good to hear how everybody was doing. One conclusion was that we are really breakin ground here. There is a thick cover of islam and animism and that has its consequences for our spiritual lives. Please pray for persevearence and an uplifted spirit. In the afternoon we went to the house of our translator to do a health teaching on worms. It went really well and we de-wormed 63 kids and adults. We also treated and infected ear and somebody with high blood pressure. We give some advise to some mothers and had a full IPHC day.
And now we go back home to Sandra and Judah,
hugs and love from Lichinga
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