We did 1400 prescriptions, saw over 900 patients in 4 villages, evaluated 250 people in order to choose surgery candidates, performed 103 surgeries in 4 operating rooms, built two houses for two very needy families. The new homes were only 450 square feet, but very nice by the standards in the villages.
The theme of the week, was from John 10 where Jesus says that God, the father calls his sheep and "calls them by name." We looked at each patient as someone God had called us to serve "by name," and that he had called each of us "by name," to be there. IT was not an accident. We also focused being the body of Christ for the week, regardless of where we were in our faith experience. Chuck gave a devotion on how we plan, but God changes it all up and makes it better at the end. One of the disappointments this year was that the hospital was under construction. It was to be finished but in fact was not. We had to use a neighboring doctor's clinic. But, the end result was a new contact and relationship with this doctor and the hope of using his facility in addition to the hospital next year. We were able to use one of the hospital operating rooms, so we increased from 72 surgeries last year to 103. Our goal was 80.
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