Yesterday, Tuesday, we continued to host a medical clinic at the Bweya Children’s Home. When we arrived around 9:00AM there were nearly 90 people waiting on us – news travels fast by word of mouth here. On Tuesday, we saw over 200 patients including adults and children. It was a blessing to be able to provide these medical services to the people of Bweya Village.
On an encouraging note we conducted nearly 150 HIV test and only one person tested positive. That was definitely a blessing because according to one of the pastors in the area, in the past this number would have been much higher. The blessing to us in this experience was seeing the reaction of the women when they learned they didn’t have HIV! One women I personally witnessed receive her news looked like somebody had just given here a million dollars.
There was another orphanage in the area, Air Field Children’s Home, which had several dozen students who needed to see a doctor and so we decided to just stop by there when we finished in Bweya instead of bring them to us. Additionally, one of the team members, Beth, sponsors a child at Air Field and she would get to see her child, Marvin, for the first time! When we arrived Marvin wasn’t there and we asked one of the children to go get him.
Marvin is a very active, bubbly child with an ear-to-ear grin that exposes two enormous dimples. He’s always in the center of whatever is going on. When he walked up, we saw a shell of a child; head down; not smiling; not talking; and really unresponsive to conversation. We were not even sure it was him. After five to ten minutes, it was evident that something was wrong with him physically. By this time the team doctor arrived and looked him over. This same child had malaria a few years ago and looked just like this them. Between the doctor’s assessment and Sarah’s memory of how he looked before, it was decided to take him to the doctor.
At the medical clinic it was confirmed that he had a complicated case of malaria and would need to be admitted. It was becoming clear that the reason Beth was on this trip was to be with Marvin. He needed her and God brought the two of them together in this place and time. In this unique experience, God positioned Beth to where she was able to spend the night with Marvin in the hospital, at his side and watching over him through the night.
When morning dawned, Marvin was a new person. His true self was back and he was on the way to a full recovery. Beth was able to spend the entire next day with him as well and was able to really soak him in.
Seeing God move and orchestrate the perfect plan for our day was an incredible experience. Ephesians 3:20 says God is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us. God clearly did more today through Marvin today than we ever imagined he could do.
Sarah says we should focus on making the difference in just one and today that was accomplished.
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