Thursday clinic and other happenings

We had our usual 7am breakfast at Rosa Mystica and then made our way back to the Lutheran Church in the slum of Kawangware.  Linda opened our day with a beautiful prayer over the team and our volunteers.  We had a pretty busy morning once again and were visited by Sam from Concordia University, Irvine, California, whom we had met previously and a biology professor named Ken who was a classmate of our very own Larry Meissner.  We showed him around the clinic and he took a few pictures of our setup.  Later in the day, our Nairobi LCMS missionary Shauen Trump paid us a visit.  He had his two young boys in tow.  He was also joined by our friends Mike and Cindy Rodewald, who head up the LCMS missions in Africa.  They toured the clinic and we were able to visit briefly with them.  We saw about the same number of people as on Wednesday and now have seen somewhere in the neighborhood of 1300 patients for the week so far.  More importantly, at least 30 people became new believers or were seriously interested in learning more about Christ or the church today.  This trip has been absolutely outstanding from the evangelism standpoint. 

We learned today that the first young boy who came to us for help in Kiambu for kerataconitis did get the operations on his eyes and was healed.  Praise God that Robert will now be able to lead a full life!  I pray that the Lord will lead him to make the most of his second chance.

The television crew never showed up to film the clinic for World Vision Day, so I guess we will all have to wait for another chance at fame…

We had dinner at a Brazilian steak house as planned.  We had 10 adults and Shauen’s 2 kids.  The group included our team of four and our driver Steven, Mike and Cindy, Shauen, Catherine and Shara.  It was a real blessing to break bread and eat massive amounts of very good meat with them.  There was a salad bar with 16 different types of salad and there were at least 12 different meats including crocodile, chicken, turkey, beef ribs, roast beef and the list went on and on.  The conversation and fellowship were great, a good time was had by all.  We are truly blessed to have our LCMS people in Africa to smooth the way for our mission trips.  They are a great encouragement.  After all that meat, I will either sleep like a baby or have a rough night.  Either way, it was worth it!

Tomorrow will be the last day of the clinic and so we will be packing up all of our equipment, loading it up on a truck for transport back to our lodge and will say our goodbyes.  More to follow tomorrow.