Thank you for your prayers and support as we served in rural southern Ethiopia last week on the 2015 Woliso medical mission. While the preparation for this outreach presented new and unprecedented challenges for JVMI, the results were excellent.
“We should put you all on freight wagons.” This hateful statement makes reference to the Nazi practice of filling train cars with Jewish civilians and transporting them to death camps. It was uttered by a high school math teacher in Brussels, Belgium — to a 16-year-old Jewish girl.
Woliso Medical Mission – Follow a Family through the Clinic
Meet Derartu. Derartu (29) walked for over an hour to get to our Woliso medical mission in Ethiopia. She came with four of her six children, Daniel (9), Diribu (6), Megersa (5), and Ezekiel (2 months).
Today ends the week-long medical mission clinic. Communication has been spotty in Woliso, sometimes available and sometimes not. The clinic served nearly 4,000 patients mid-way through the medical mission.
Ethiopia lies just north of the equator in eastern Africa. In the dry season, the landscape is dusty with red earth. In the rainy season, water flows so freely that many buildings and facilities have drainage ditches along walkways.
Recent reports from Israel suggest that U.S. President Barack Obama and his political allies are actively working to oust Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the upcoming March elections.
Prayer Points: Warfare over True Worship in Woliso
Our medical outreach in Woliso, Ethiopia will begin in a few days, and even now team members are packing and preparing to serve the Lord in ministering love, prayer and medical care to the thousands who will come to have their needs met. We need your prayers.
“The nursing station for our medical clinic in Zimbabwe was a bustling hub of activity. What was so unique was the sporadic arrival of the most sick pushed in wheelbarrows by their friends and family members over the rough terrain in the hot sun and to our doorstep.
Seventy years ago, on January 27th, 1945, Russian soldiers approached the gates of Auschwitz and were astonished. One recounted, "We saw emaciated, tortured, impoverished people. We could tell from their eyes that they were happy to be saved….
