Sunday was a much slower paced day as we only had a few appointments in the morning, but we did spend quite a bit of time organizing all of the items that were going to be donated to a local non-profit hospital. I was amazed that we had so many items that hopefully they will be able to use as they have so little at the hospital and only a few clinics scattered throughout the country.
Their education is very minimal, too and some of the items we have left in the past they weren’t even sure what they were. However, this year many of the items are basic mainstays for hospital facilities like oxygen concentrators, IV poles, standing tables, feeding tube supplies, tracheostomy supplies, etc that we hope they will be able to put them to good use quickly.
After getting everything put away, we then went on a little outing to a local village to distribute more food packets, Gospel bracelet kits, Bibles, faith-based kid items, candy and hygiene kits. It is always extremely humbling to go into these places where some have electricity but most do not have water. However, there are many believers we meet along the way and the joy of the Lord is still overflowing from their lives. They even have such beautiful surroundings of God’s great outdoors that is an encouragement and there are many Christ honoring churches in the area that keep everyone moving forward in Christ.
We always say there are first world problems and third world problems and while many times we look at third world problems as much more severe they are often much simpler and easier to navigate than the complicated problems we see in our culture and society of America today.