Launching a new clinic

Today we celebrated the independence of one of our Community Health Workers who is leaving us to start a satellite clinic in Khourtembak, a village about eight hours walk away. This will provide health care for people in that area who will no longer have to walk so many hours to get medical care. This is so exciting! It is one of the long term goals our team has had since opening the primary health care clinic in 2008.

Masir is the CHW who has come so far and received the blessing today to move out on his own. We will miss him but praise God that the time has finally arrived for him to branch out. (He is pictured second from the right on the front row.)

In my weaknesses

Our team devotional tonight was on God's use of Moses, a person with issues and human weaknesses-- in His plan of redemption. We considered our own callings to the ministry in Sudan and I thought, as many times before, that I'm not worthy of the calling but am so grateful God uses flawed people--like Moses, David, Samson, Peter and Paul. It is not because of my own merit that God brought me here, but because He can replace my sinful nature with His character and show Himself to the world though those of us He is sanctifying. In spite of myself, my sin, my weaknesses, my fears and my failures, God has given me a role in His plan of redemption. Wow!

Acts 4:13 "Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled, and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus."