The fields are white unto Harvest

We had a great flight from Nairobi to a city about 40 minutes by car to Tenwek Hospital on Monday. Upon arrival we were greeted by Hudson calling out the window 'Hello Papa and Grammy". He speaks to everyone and says "I really love you".
This week all the missionary medical doctors have taken off to have a staff retreat beginning Weds and will be gone all of next week. This will put a load on the visiting medical members. Kyle is one of the senior folks that are left for the next week and a half with 300 patients in the hospital. Thanks for praying for these servants who will be overseeing the hospital and for the regular staff as they go away to be refreshed. We had dinner with a couple of them before they left.

On Tuesday morning I began meeting with the hospital chaplins for a time of devotion at 8 and then off to see patients for the rest of the day. What a shock to see the conditions, with many patients two to a bed, but a great love for all those who come for help. They have a passion for praying with each patient and learning about thier needs. My first experience in a men's ward had two grown men in a bed laying side by side in what we have in America as a twin size bed. The needs are great and they loved talking with us and then we enjoyed praying for their needs and reading some Scriptures with them. After lunch I went with a different chaplin and we visited the vision ward where we saw two patients who had had eye surgury that morning. Both said they were not Christians. I shared Ps. 119:18 "Open my eyes that I might see wonderful things from your Word". Then I shared how God had sent his Son to open their eyes to the good news of the Gospel. Both asked Jesus into their life. One was a Massai women named Edna and the other one was an older man whose son was visiting with him. The son said he had been praying for his father for years.
On Weds I spent the morning in the nursury ward with all the babies and their mothers. Some of these babies were around 2 lbs. It was cool to see the mothers come in every couple of hours and take their babies out of the boxes (which looked like chicken crates) and wash them with a bowl of water and rub oil on them and them tenderly feed and love on them. We prayed with all the mothers. After that I went to the women's ward and visited with a lady who had been in the hospital for 3 weeks because of complications with her pregancy. She was lonely and discouraged. We prayed with her as tears flowed down her cheeks.
On Thursday morning - We visited with a young lady who had tried to commit suicide. She had been brought in on Tuesday in a comma. She was very poor, without work and living with her mentally disturbed mother. The young lady had taken rat poison to end her life. She had even tried to kill her little child a few months ago. We asked her to forgive us for trying to save her life, but she said that was good. She too invited Jesus into her life. I asked her what we could be praying for her about and she asked us to pray for her mother and others to come to Jesus as the tears fell to her hospital gown and soaked it. Her name was something like Masse
I visited a young orphan man age 14 who had been in for a serious infection in his leg. He did not remember who Jesus was so I explained about his love for him and how Jesus wanted a relationship with him. He knew English and so the chaplin had to leave to go on an emergency visit with someone else. I had the chance to introduce him to the Lord as his personal savior.
Every day we have many opportunities to share Christ. thanks for praying for us.