Sudan Project

Elder's wife healed by prayer

Village Health Training


Training in the dark, outside.

Typical village

Welcomed by ADRA

Ron and Gatbel (Sudanese living in US) spent over two weeks in Ethiopia and S Sudan and one week in S. Africa last month. They experienced many miracles as God opened doors for further work in bringing hope and healing. Miraculously, they were able to secure legal NGO (nongovernment organization) status, allowing more freedom and privileges in working there. They were able to do Village Health training--sometimes in the dark outside. God performed many miracles. One was the healing of one of the Elder's wife suffering from malaria. She was laying on a cot in front of their thatched hut, unable to lift her head. After examining her, Ron prayed for her. About 10 minutes later she walked into the training session Ron and Gatbel were conducting. She spent the rest of the day there. Future plans are for further training of volunteers to do Village Health and possibly several clinics as well as a medical launch on the Nile River to reach villagers in that area of S Sudan. We solicite your prayers and support as God opens these doors of opportunity.

If you feel impressed to help us financially with this project, and would like more information, please contact us at secondhopeministries@live.com.

Saturday Mar 27-- 3:00 p.m. at WW City SDA Church

You won't want to miss the pictures and stories from the Second Haiti Team as well as Ron's trip to Southern Sudan, Ethiopia and South Africa. Come and share the blessing--invite a friend.

Mar. 2 Tuesday -- All Arrived Safely Home

K Darby,A Claney,T Flaiz,K Canwell, S Welker, R Tilley

S Wiedeman, J Bryne, C Howard, M Goff

The Haiti team is safe at home. All except Alissa Claney who chose to stay an extra two weeks. Once they get settled back in we will share some of their pictures and stories. Thank you for your prayers and support for them.

Sabbath, Feb 27 Report from Chris Howard

Well, today was my last scheduled work day here...we were short of staff. There is always a constant flow of people coming in and out. I was the only mental health provider so I saw patients all day with my interpreter. Many of the people are dealing with 3 layers of distress...the trauma of the earthquake and everything coming down around them, the loss of their relatives under the rubble, and the fact that they are now having to live out on the street with perhaps not even a shelter, and a lack of food and water. I teach them some coping skills. Let them know they are not crazy and that over time their minds will gradually heal.
Tomorrow we are scheduled to have someone take us in a van to Santa Domingo starting at 8 am. I hope he shows up. Tonight we are having the first sustained rain of the trip. I am trying not to consider the possiblity of landslides in the mountains on the road we will have to travel on through the mountains of Dominican Republic. Anyway it should be an adventure.

PLEASE PRAY FOR THEIR SAFE RETURN.

Sunday Feb 28 Report from Keith Canwell in Haiti

Last night, our last in Haiti, we took a hundred or more meals to people in one of many hundreds of hovels/tent dwellings--down one of thousands of crowded roads in Port-au-Prince. It was raining pretty hard, but when we stopped and called out "Food!" kids and old people, mothers and others, came streaming out to receive food. In two minutes we were out, soaked and leaving. Headed home now.

Friday, Feb 26 Story from Kris Darby

Kris Darby & Dr. Ted Flaiz
Sherry Wiedeman, Ron Tilley, Dr. Flaiz

Dr. Scott Welker

On my first day in Port-au-Prince I was working with Dr. Hooper's team at a mobile clinic when a two year old girl arrived in the arms of her parents and had uncontrolled salivation. Dr. Hooper examined her and found her to have a partially obstructed airway of unknown etiology. He stated that the child needed to go to the nearest hospital and wanted me to take her. I looked at him and asked him where the hospital was. His answer was, "I don't know, I don't live here, but you need to find one." I looked at my interpreter, Leo, and asked him where the hospital was and he stated, "I'm not from this part of Port-au-Prince, I don't know." Dr. Hooper then stated that the child needed to go now before her airway became completely blocked. Leo picked up the child, I grabbed my jump bag and we began to walk into Port-au-Prince.

During this time the child began to drool more and had further difficulty breathing. After about 1/2 hr of walking we finally were able to flag down a taxi. After Leo negotiated with the driver he loaded the three of us, and the child's parents into a beat up Honda and drove us to a small hospital. As we got out of the taxi the driver demanded to be paid. I told Leo to tell him we would pay him AFTER he took us back to the mobile clinic since we were both lost and would not be able to find our way back.

At the hospital there was a pediatric surgeon and a general surgeon who took over care of the child, whew...we had made it and the child was now in good hands. The taxi driver took us back to the mobile clinic and I paid him six US dollars for the taxi ride. We really made a difference in that child's life, who knows what would have happened if care had not been given and my interpreter Leo really shined for me. Quite an adventure for an American in Haiti...find a hospital indeed. We did........

Sun Feb 21 Moving Story by Keith Canwell

Keith tells the following story that was shared with him by Dr Pedro.
"A christian man came in for treatment with injuries to his lower body. As the doctor treated him the man began to tell him his story. His little son was lying on his lap when the quake hit. A wall fell on them, pinning them down. The boy was pinned down on his lap, with his little arms outstretched. The father was unable to move to help him at all. And he had to lay there helpless for three days as he was forced to watch his child die.
The imprint of the child's bones were still in his father's lap as the doctor examined him. When the doctor was finished he told the man how very sorry he was that this tragedy had happened to him. He told him, "I cannot fully comprehend the pain you must feel. I've never lost a child." But the doctor said to me, "I think God gave me the words to say next. I told him, 'But I know someone who does fully understand your pain. God himself watched helplessly as his son died, arms outstretched too. He understands your pain very personally.'"
The doctor said the man's whole countenance changed as he began to realize that God really did feel with him in his grief. It was just what he needed to hear. He went away greatly comforted. The doctor was grateful God gave him such a thought to share."