Welcome to our latest Blog.
Since we last wrote concerning our
arrival back in Chad, we have been struggling to settle but also with trying to
see God in our work here and how we in particular can be of service. At times
everything seems so difficult, for example in the past week we have been without
water, lights and power and simple daily tasks seem so difficult to achieve.
But amongst all the things we struggle with we do see God at work.
The hospital is situated within a Muslim community
surrounded by mosques with the daily call to prayer heard at many times
throughout the day and night. Prayer is very evident within the community and
in the hospital as at various times throughout the day people will openly pray.
Despite being known as a Christian hospital we are unable to openly evangelise
outside of the hospital grounds but can and do openly pray with and for our
patients, which they are very happy to receive. Every day starts with a short
devotional time and prayer for each other, our patients and the working
day. On Wednesday mornings we will pray
with and for each individual patient at their bedside, we have never known the
offer to be refused.
We would like to tell you about a young man of 25 who came
to the hospital semi-conscious after 4 days of continual epileptic fits at
home. He continued to have further fits whilst in hospital, as unfortunately we
do not have the facilities to put him into a medically induced coma to allow
his brain and body to rest. We did however give him a drug to try to supress
the fits and another drug every time he fitted, which unfortunately was on a
regular basis. On the sixth day there were no signs of improvement and we could
offer no alternate medical treatment. He had now been fitting continuously for
10 days with no signs of change. The following day he became extremely agitated
and would scream out as if in real fear, this lasted for 24 hours. However during
a period of calm he was able to speak, albeit briefly, to ask for prayer before
becoming extremely agitated again.
The hospital Pastor prayed with him during the day and we as
a team also prayed for him at differing times. It was distressing to see him in
such torment. The following day he became calm and was able to speak and was
therefore able to have his first drink of water. He remained at the hospital
for a further 2 days, now able to fully communicate and although weak able to
get out of bed and gradually walk along the walkway outside the hospital ward.
We had run out of medical options and were preparing for the worse but this
young man was able to return home to his family, which for us here it was a
clear miracle. What do you think?
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| Artist at Work |
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| Preparation |
No blog is complete without some interesting pictures, so
have include a couple from our latest project which aims to reach out to our
Chadian patients within the hospital. This is through health promotion pictures
and Biblical text translated into Arabic and painted onto the wall surrounding
our outpatients department. We will provide more information on the progress of
this project as it evolves.
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| Vaccinations |
Look forward to hearing from you
Malc and Sue