It is inevitable... every year we have always have huge challenges for our screening day. Some years it is multiple challenges. This year, in Togo, one of our greatest arch enemies appears to be the big, bad GI bug.
For all you non-medical people, GI stand for gastro-intestinal... so yes... you guessed it... tummy bugs! The vomiting or diarrhea (or both) have been running fairly rampant throughout the ship all week long. In fact, I am just now getting up and out of bed myself after having spent most of the past 30+ hours in bed not too far away from a toilet. Ohhh, GI Bugs... how I hate you.
So please, pray for our screening day tomorrow, February 1st. I'm one of the first crew members of the medical screening teams to arrive at a bright and early 5am!!! We have a night crew that is already at the football (soccer) stadium and will have many more arriving during the we hours of the morning to begin our screening at 5:30am. It will be a very LONG day tomorrow filled with so much wonderful opportunity. We would all covet your prayers for this day! Especially for:
-Health: that those who are ill, that they would be miraculously better. For those who are starting to feel ill, that God would touch their bodies and prevent any more illness from occurring
-Safety: safety for the Togolese people as they are waiting in line and safety for all of us crew involved, that there would be peace and order without anger or rioting.
-Divine appointments: That just the people we can help would come, and the others would simply not even show up.
-Grace, love, and compassion: That no matter whether our answer is "yes" or "no", that each and every Togolese person would leave our screening knowing that we love them and that, most of all, they are loved and treasured by God.
Thank you! Pictures to come!
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