Wednesday

Wednesday. 

A small group of us were able to go back to Mephibosheth Orphanage to deliver pediatric wheelchairs with the hope of being able to adjust and fit some of the children in the chairs. The trip to the orphanage turned into about a 2 hour tap-tap (Haitian taxi) in order to get there and, at least for me, frustrations began to arise. But as soon as we arrived and I saw the smiles of the kids, those frustrations and selfish thoughts completely washed away. God had a plan and knew exactly what the children would need. We picked out a chair for the first child, Stephenson, and we did not even need to make any adjustments! Stephenson had never been in a wheelchair before, yet he was able to climb up in the chair figure out the breaks and how to move around in it all on his own. God is SO good! We continued working with what we had and in the end 5 of the kids (Dadoo, Kiki, Stephenson, Eugina, and Sarah)  had a wheelchair or walker. The joy on the faces of these 5 kids is something I will never forget. They were so excited to have a means to get around other than crawling on the ground and you can bet they will never let the wheelchairs out of their sight. :) We were all brought to tears as we prayed before we left. We know that these kids are loved and we pray that we will be able to, one day, walk with them in Heaven.

-Jamie 

Today, I was paired with Vladimyr and we worked on all sorts of patients. This afternoon we saw a lady who came in with joint pain in her shoulder, knee, and ankle due to "The Fever." Usually we give these patients a few exercises to practice at home but there is not a whole lot we can do. However, Vlad decided to do a few joint mobilizations before she left.  He started on her shoulder and after a few minutes the lady was laying there just saying over and over "thank you Jesus." Then she told us that her pain had gone away and was moving her shoulder. He moved to her ankle and she could barely pay attention to what he was saying because she was amazed by her shoulder and was still moving it around. What we thought would be a quick session turned into an hour. The lady left basically pain free. She even got up from the table a few times throughout the session to give Vlad hugs and kisses saying, "thank you Jesus." Today was a success! God is good :)

-Katie T.

Yesterday, a man came through that had more pain than anyone I think that I have ever seen. We pretty quickly determined that his pain was likely an infection in his abdomen and nothing that we could help with, so we referred him to the Zion clinic that we have been sending a lot of people to. The catch was that he had to make it within 15 minutes, so we asked our go to guy, Ryan if the man could take a tap-tap to the clinic, and The Lord orchestrated it so that I was on lunch duty that day. Lunch duty people ride the tap tap back to the house, so I got to be in the same tap tap with him before when he was in so much pain and after he left having received meds and blood work. He looked so much better! I was amazed and relieved. The tap-tap was taking him home and dropping us off at the clinic, and as I was getting out he grabbed my arm, and in English he said, "thank you so much, and God bless you!" I was definitely blessed by those words and by the opportunity just to be here. It was very encouraging to realize that he understood that it was God! It's been said and I'll say it again, God is so so good!!! To Him be all the glory forever and ever!

- Cortney 

Please continue to pray for us

- pray for continues strength, energy and health

- pray for hearts to continue to be softened

- pray for continued safety and good rest each night

- pray a prayer for thanks for God showing him mighty hand again and again on this trip

-pray that we would be able to effectively communicate the importance of feeding babies breast milk (instead of flour water)

-pray that we would be able to effectively communicate the importance keeping blood pressures lower