Evangelism/Medical Clinic in the bush

Last weekend three missionary couples traveled into Maasailand to share Christ's love. The ladies returned to Oltinka Baptist Church in Emali to conduct a medical clinic and AIDS awareness seminar. At the same time, the men traveled out further into the bush to share stories of Christ with different small groups.

The men made their first stop at the home place of a man who introduced them to his three wives. As Neal began to share Bible stories using the Bible Storying Cloth, a small group formed to hear what he had to say. (Because most of the lost world does not read, the storying cloth is used by missionaries to teach people by telling them the stories of the Bible chronologically from creation to Christ. Learn more about the storying cloth at http://www.imb.org/main/lead/page.asp?StoryID=5892&LanguageID=1709

One of the goals of these trips is to help disciple the church leaders. Three members of Oltinka Baptist went with the men to interpret and to learn how to better share their faith. Here you see one of them taking notes on what was being shared.

You have heard of living in mud huts before, well here, that is truly how they live.

The Maasai women are exceptionally beautiful women. We just love this shot.

After sharing at the first home place, the men moved on to another site that was a church beginning to form under a tree. At this location, Mike preached and Jeff sang. One man prayed to receive Christ as his Savior.

The men also carried some Bibles with them to give to those who needed them.

They also carried a rubber ball and some Frisbees. Unfortunately the acacia thorns ended the ball fun very quickly, but they were able to teach them how to throw the Frisbees.

The men ended the night by showing the Jesus Film, using a generator and a large screen they took with them.

Back at the church the ladies were setting up the medical supplies for the clinic. Stephen Juma, the medical director at Brackenhurst Conference Center in Nairobi, came along with us on the trip. He examine patients and administer medications. A couple of the men from the church were there to organize the people and interpret. Each patient would come into the clinic where Jan would take their blood pressure, pulse and age. They would then go see Stephen with their medical complaints. Dee worked with Stephen to measure out and administer any medication that needed. Then Gail would give every man, woman and child a dose of de-worming medication.

We stopped about 30 minutes for lunch. When we returned, Stephen led a seminar on AIDS awareness. Everyone was very attentive and some even asked questions. Their best question was, "When are you going to come back and test us for AIDS?" So now we are trying to obtain some AIDS test kits to return and test them.

After the AIDS seminar, it was back to seeing patients. The men were so gracious to allow the women and children to be seen first, before they came into the clinic. The last patient was seen right at dark. In all, 103 people were treated that day. The youngest was nine months and the oldest was 78 years old. It was a great day in the bush!