Another great day in Haiti. The temperature pushed 100 degrees + high humidity. Today we saw a couple of real life Haitian situations. First, thank God that we have a couple of nurses on the combined team. Vickie Blackburn who is traveling with us and a nurse with the KY team were faced with a medical emergency this morning. A local older Haitian lady set her sheets on fire with her lamp during last night. She suffered sever 2nd and 3rd degree burns over her chest and abdomen. As is the custom here when there is a emergency, they call the local pastor. In this case the pastor then contacted the missionary who resides in the compound where we are staying. Long story short as the closest and best medical available on this island happened to be the 2 nurses that were part of this 30 person team. The lady was brought to this compound in the missionaries truck and Vickie and her fellow nurse began what most likely could be life saving service on this lady and began to treat her wounds as only a qualified health care professional can. Without this treatment most likely this lady does not make it through the day.
The other instance I want to share is on Sunday I told you of the voodoo princess being saved. Well part of what occurred was all of her voodoo items and her clothes were placed in the street and they were burned in her presence. Today members of our team visited with her and provided her with new clothing. I can’t fully explain what we are seeing here but in this ravaged country people are in desperate need of Gods promise and as we work among these proud people we are sowing seeds and touching lives but even more than what we give them God is blessing us daily and I know each of us will return home with a stronger conviction to listen to Gods call and respond in obedience.
Jim Clark
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