Jan 19, 2011 Chris in Chula Vista
I've been reading in ! Corinthians chapter 12 about the Body of Christ, and how the Church is mystically and wonderfully tied together for God's Glory. No rock stars, just the Great and Bright Morning Star... Jesus!
We each play a part, small and large. High-visability and low-visability. All important, all a puzzle-piece for a view of the Big Picture of God's Kingdom to the lost and hurting.
The 'anniversary' of the massive Haitian quake brought to mind the number of people we have trained or equipped to go to Haiti and do tangible health-care ministry and outreach over the last year. I've looked to GO to Haiti a number of ways, but they were either merely 'look-see' trips (and no real substantial work to be done) OR too cost-prohibitive in this funny $$$ season we find ourselves in (it's expensive to be missionaries and in-country!).
However, we've been steadily training and teaching people going to Haiti. Our favorite and 20-year project... easily-communicated Oral Rehydration Solution education for diarrheal death-prevention... received a great deal of interest BEFORE the Cholera outbreak. We trained a number of different people in different settings (see Lori's previous Blog). That includes email 'consults' with doctors and nurses involved with on-the-ground Haitian health-care operations.
Feedback is starting to come back to us, including "We taught lots of ORS in light of the cholera epidemic... Thanks for all you did to train the students."
SO, being a part of the Mystical Body, prepping those that are going TO Haiti... may the Lord receive all the Glory in this!
(pray for Haiti, it's going to be a long and complex road ahead...)
your bro, CHRIS
[ps: any interest in the basics of Oral Rehydration treatment, or to access materials developed for training ORS with the poor, contact me at chris@bajmission.com ]
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