Salaam
from Soddo Christian Hospital in Soddo, Wollaita Ethiopia.
My experience here in the Orthopedics department has been
busy and rewarding . Dr. Duane Anderson through God's grace and hard work has
certainly created a wonderful healing and teaching center for Orthopedic
surgery here. People come for treatment here hundreds of miles away to have
their medical and ultimately their spiritual needs met after horrendous
injuries.
While here I have seen everything from dislocated toes, knees and hips. Broken fingers, wrists, elbows, shoulders, hips , femurs, tibias, tibias, tibias , tibias ankles and a few more tibias have been treated in the two short weeks I have been here.
The work has been long and hard but what impresses me the most are the young long term missionary staff physicians and families that have devoted this portion of their lives to serving God as ambassadors for Christ in this far corner of Africa. They have sacrificed a comfortable life in the States to bring their children and spouses to a far away land with uncomfortable cultural differences and a lot of mud. Their hearts are excited for The Lord and their mission. Despite some disappointments of not being able to have a part in saving all patients physically and/or spiritually they concentrate on the good things. Philippians 4:8 is certainly lived out in a sure way every day in the lives of these families. Praise God for them but also pray for them. There is an endless supply of patients, each with their own language, cultural, financial and medical issues that can easily drag down the most optimistic and faithful physician .
They spend their days not just caring for patients but also teaching the staff and residents at the hospital. They strive to teach "whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the Glory of God". They realize they are not working for people or an organization or a hospital complex, but in all they do for His honor and glory. I suppose this is knowledge that keeps them going even when they miss their extended family, or they lose hours of sleep,or she things don't go as well at the hospital they would have planned.
Pray for this hospital and its staff to be lights for Jesus in Soddo, Ethiopia .
Rhett
While here I have seen everything from dislocated toes, knees and hips. Broken fingers, wrists, elbows, shoulders, hips , femurs, tibias, tibias, tibias , tibias ankles and a few more tibias have been treated in the two short weeks I have been here.
The work has been long and hard but what impresses me the most are the young long term missionary staff physicians and families that have devoted this portion of their lives to serving God as ambassadors for Christ in this far corner of Africa. They have sacrificed a comfortable life in the States to bring their children and spouses to a far away land with uncomfortable cultural differences and a lot of mud. Their hearts are excited for The Lord and their mission. Despite some disappointments of not being able to have a part in saving all patients physically and/or spiritually they concentrate on the good things. Philippians 4:8 is certainly lived out in a sure way every day in the lives of these families. Praise God for them but also pray for them. There is an endless supply of patients, each with their own language, cultural, financial and medical issues that can easily drag down the most optimistic and faithful physician .
They spend their days not just caring for patients but also teaching the staff and residents at the hospital. They strive to teach "whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the Glory of God". They realize they are not working for people or an organization or a hospital complex, but in all they do for His honor and glory. I suppose this is knowledge that keeps them going even when they miss their extended family, or they lose hours of sleep,or she things don't go as well at the hospital they would have planned.
Pray for this hospital and its staff to be lights for Jesus in Soddo, Ethiopia .
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