This morning we had the most delicious breakfast of a cheese omelette, mangos, bananas, crepes, bread, NUTELLA, French press coffee and more. It was a feast to say the least! It was hard to indulge in all of that food knowing so many kids we have seen barely are able to get by. I was Ble to get time to journal on our porch while I watch the river rapids. We packed up and headed to Canaan Children's Home. On the way their our bus driver, Abus, told us that his wife is in the hospital with malaria. He asked us if we could go to pray for her. This is a huge deal because Abus is Muslim. He has watched us all week while we have talked about Christ and prayed over the kids at the orphanage and now wanted us to pray over his wife! While at the hospital other women in the room saw us praying and wanted us to pray over them as well.
The hospital is a bunch of buildings, open to the outside air, no air conditioner. Their IV tubing is spiked into bottles of what I'm assuming is saline with antibiotics and syringes piggy backed into the bottle. All of the fluids are manually titrated because they don't have pumps. The building we went in was the women's hospital. It was one big room filled with small beds filled with patients. Lets just say I'm so thankful for our healthcare system.
We went on a few home visits with Godfrey and Peter from Pillars of Hope. The first house, which was hardly a home, consisted of a main room and two bedrooms. The main room was big enough for about 5 people to stand in and held all of their pots and pans. There were two wasp nests in the house by one of the bedrooms. The bedroom to the left doubled as the chicken's home. Each bedroom had some wood propped up to hold the bed and was filled with other things they had acquired so you could barely walk into the room. The grandmother was the head of this household and she had taken in 5 grandchildren due to her children being deceased or mentally ill. 6 people lived in this "house" that is smaller than my bedroom my apartment. That put things into perspective for me really quick.
We got to Canaan last night and the kids were so excited to see us. They hold your hand like they are scared to let go. If they only knew I would hold on forever if I could. There are so many hands to hold and kids to hug that if I had 10 arms it would not be enough to love these kids the way I want to.
My prayer is that God continues to be glorified through our hand holding, song singing, hug giving, game playing and love.
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