I’m pictured with the medical team that arrived in April. This picture was taken of the team at Mbaiki, two hour drive from Bangui, where we went to do medical checkups on our Bible school professors and students. Dr. Dibona and his wife Denise also joined us that day and we used their home during the week to run a medical clinic in the afternoon. The other picture is of me registering patients along with Rachel Workmen, RN. Rachel did their vital signs and I wrote out their information and medical complaints before they would see the doctor. I spent two days helping to translate for the ultrasound tech and then registering patients at the Dibona’s house in the afternoon. We had our one day trip to Mbaiki and then I spent two days being chauffeur and translator for Dr. Rick, the dentist, and his wife out at the Sakpa GBC. Overall the team did 415 Medical consults, 12 Major surgeries, 130 Ultrasounds and 133 Dental consults and pulled 166 teeth! This is a total of 690 people who were helped in one week!
Pray for more medical personal to join our team in Bangui. The medical needs are huge in this country and there are so many more people who could be helped.
The construction team from Columbus all returned to the States safely. Mark Sims and Eddie and Linda Mensinger have also arrived and they are all busy teaching out at the seminary. On May 2nd we will say good bye to Berno, German builder, who will be heading back to Germany to spend some time with his family and do his medical check-ups. May 9th we will welcome Barb Wooler and Miriam Pacheco and then on May 16th Ginger Hock and the Flaningan family will arrive. We are so excited to welcome the Flaningans as part of our team here in Bangui. On May 30th Mark Sims will return to his home in France.
Pray for Mensingers, Mark, Janet and me as we finish up teaching this month at the seminary and for Graduation that will be on May 26th. Pray for those coming out this month and especially for the Flaningans to have a good flight with a three year old and one year old.
I continue to tutor Kevin, Hassan, Auday and Nathalie along with teaching English to the second year seminary students. I only have three more weeks left to teach out at the seminary and plan to continue on this summer with my private tutoring students. I’m also hoping to return to the Bangui Airport and do another English class for the police officials this summer.
Pray that Dr. Hibaile is able to get this worked out with the police commissioner.
Easter Sunday was foggy but we still enjoyed the sunrise service down at the river and Easter lunch when eight of us enjoyed a carry-in together.
Huge praise! After several weeks of only having 10-15 hours of city power each day we have been enjoying 24 hours of power for the past three weeks. Janet and Jensen’s apartments haven’t had city power for the last week so we are running extension cords to keep their refrigerators going. UPDATE: As of yesterday, April 30 they now have power back!
It’s a privilege to serve the Lord here in Bangui. Thanks for standing behind me.
Heidi
