Monday & Tuesday

Monday morning we traveled into the Great Rift Valley and up over the escarpment through the town of Narok to a little village called Olmusakwa. The lay workers had fenced in the church property (the church is under a few trees - there is no structure, just a couple of benches and a pulpit)

We set up camp and made a fire. The weather was quite cold. After supper and worship we headed up the cow path towards a few of the stores. It was dark and we had little toys that light up in the dark to hand out to any children that might be around. We found a few on the road and gave them each one. It was not long before there were children running everywhere with the glowing toys.

Tuesday we started clinic around 8:30am in an unfinished clinic that was just near to our campsite. We saw hundreds of patients and had to turn hundreds away due to it getting dark in the evening. We sent one baby that was two weeks old to the hospital. She was in serious condition and every now and again would just stop breathing, along with her we sent a young boy who's knee was terribly infected and needed IV antibiotics. Later in the afternoon we had a young girl come in that had had a seizure and fallen into a fire. Her eyeball was burned and her eyelid of course was gone. It was badly infected and the flies were in it. I had some contact numbers and we were able to send her to the Eye Hospital in Kikuyu. We have asked the family to contact us and let us know what the cost will be to have her eye removed and the infection taken care of. If you would like to help with the cost of her surgery please let us know. Several of us on the trip are pitching in to help the family out.
We also brought a wheel chair with us and were able to give it to a young girl (16 years old or so) who had polio and could not walk. It was fun watching them push her away in her new chair.

Each evening it there was a light rain and it was so very cold. We all bundled up and some slept with all their clothes on.

It was a blessing to be there - and the people we visited and served seemed to be so very appreciative. God blessed, as He always does!

kim