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Last night, Joy was feeling quite homesick. A team that was here with us for the week left for home and she received a loving e-mail from her parents.
But God is good!! Diane Bannister and a husband and wife team of Doctors whom we met last Saturday at Acacia camp arrived unexpectedly. We spent an amazing evening with them sharing our experiences in Kenya so far. They ran 3 clinics in rural Kenya this week and saw over 400 patients. One day, they ran out of medicine at 11 a.m. Debbie had a very sick child of 6 or 7 years of age, sick with typhoid and malaria. Since there was no medicine left to treat either disease and the child would die without treatment, Debbie gave her one of the pills for malaria (Malarone) that she had brought for herself. Her husband then drove to the nearest chemist and bought all the drugs that he could, with his own money, to help the patients that they were seeing. There are not many hospitals in rural Kenya!
In between serious discussions, we laughed a lot and had a great time! We will not be crossing paths again in Kenya as Debbie and Paul leave for home next weekend. We will see Diane again at a gathering of Canadian Baptist Ministries Field Staff on the 30th.
Today is a bright, sunny day..30 degrees. We went to church with Paul and Kelly Carline and their family and spent the afternoon with them. Their eldest daughter, Katie, is attending
Tyndale University in Toronto and we had her to our home for dinner just before we left.
It was a great afternoon and we really enjoyed meeting them and their other 3 children. We learned a lot about their work with the Somali community outside of Nairobi. Paul told us that there 3 refugee camps around Danaub, a small town of 5,000. These 3 refugee camps are run by the United Nations and have a total of approximately 200,00 refugees. Because the refugee camps are run by the UN, the living conditions for the people there are better than the living conditions of the people in Eastleigh.
Off to an early start tomorrow at Eastleigh so we will have another early night... 9 p.m. What a difference when there is no television or a computer handy to keep one busy at night! We are told that we are keeping Missionary Hours!
But God is good!! Diane Bannister and a husband and wife team of Doctors whom we met last Saturday at Acacia camp arrived unexpectedly. We spent an amazing evening with them sharing our experiences in Kenya so far. They ran 3 clinics in rural Kenya this week and saw over 400 patients. One day, they ran out of medicine at 11 a.m. Debbie had a very sick child of 6 or 7 years of age, sick with typhoid and malaria. Since there was no medicine left to treat either disease and the child would die without treatment, Debbie gave her one of the pills for malaria (Malarone) that she had brought for herself. Her husband then drove to the nearest chemist and bought all the drugs that he could, with his own money, to help the patients that they were seeing. There are not many hospitals in rural Kenya!
In between serious discussions, we laughed a lot and had a great time! We will not be crossing paths again in Kenya as Debbie and Paul leave for home next weekend. We will see Diane again at a gathering of Canadian Baptist Ministries Field Staff on the 30th.
Today is a bright, sunny day..30 degrees. We went to church with Paul and Kelly Carline and their family and spent the afternoon with them. Their eldest daughter, Katie, is attending
Tyndale University in Toronto and we had her to our home for dinner just before we left.
It was a great afternoon and we really enjoyed meeting them and their other 3 children. We learned a lot about their work with the Somali community outside of Nairobi. Paul told us that there 3 refugee camps around Danaub, a small town of 5,000. These 3 refugee camps are run by the United Nations and have a total of approximately 200,00 refugees. Because the refugee camps are run by the UN, the living conditions for the people there are better than the living conditions of the people in Eastleigh.
Off to an early start tomorrow at Eastleigh so we will have another early night... 9 p.m. What a difference when there is no television or a computer handy to keep one busy at night! We are told that we are keeping Missionary Hours!
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