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Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord and He will reward them for what they have done. Proverbs 19:17 I trust that you will find the time to read this newsletter. There are a number of new things happening in the WorldComp world. I want to say […]
THE LAST WORD: Our team is now at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam for our 4 ½ hour layover. It is so wonderful to be headed home to the people we love and “our own beds”. I know that “foxes have holes and birds have their nests, but theirs no place […]
We are now on the grounds of the Shikusa Boys Detention Center. Since I was last here there has been a major turnover in the boys and in the detention center staff. We arrived to find that they were having their annual meeting, which includes the detention center board, a […]
Today we made our way to the village of Shinyalu over 8 miles of dirt roads. This is rural Kenya at its best! On the way we passed a lot of little farms and people walking to Kakamega with baskets of bananas or avocadoes on their heads. Most of the […]
We woke up this morning to find that Dr. Phil had been sick all night. We had to proceed without him. Camp is not the same when Phil is missing. He is our “go to” guy on all mysterious medical matters. But praise the Lord, Phil was back in camp […]
It is now midnight and we finally have our team tucked into their beds at the Sheyuwe Hotel in Kakamega Kenya. We had a long hard trip from Nairobi to Kakamega. I had no idea that they had ripped up 15 miles of the road from Kisumu to Kakamega and, […]
Hello Again Dear Friends from the Eastern edge of Nairobi. Day two of our Kayole camp has gone very well. Dr Phil was quite pleased that very few of the patients here seem to have the major diseases that so often kill people: Cholera and Typhoid. Kayole is a slum […]
I am sitting the sanctuary of the Kayole PEFA Church watching the people move up through line to get their vitals taken and then to see a doctor. At present we have number of free services in the camp: Doctors Exams, Eye Exams (with free reading glasses), Voluntary AIDS, Malaria, […]
The old song says “If we never had a problem, we wouldn’t know that God could solve them”. Well we had a problem! The ultrasound machine came to the camp in great shape, but when we turned it on there was a power surge that burned a section of the […]
Monday August 19, 2013 Nairobi Kenya It is now 3pm in the afternoon and our doctors have seen almost 800 people. The facilities of the South B PEFA Church are absolutely perfect for medical camp. We are about 100 yards from a major slum area where the people have great […]