(Dan Typing)
Hello! we safely arrived at Bongolo Hospital on Thursday after a grueling 10 hour car ride over bumpy winding roads. On Friday, we were given a tour of the hospital compound. This morning I jumped in on a soccer game between the hospital staff and the kids from the local village, it was a blast! In about an hour we will be heading out to a remote village with no running water or electricity. We are putting on a showing of the Jesus Film with the local church for the community. We will be back at the hospital tommorow afternoon.
To give you an update about what we were up to last week we were laying concrete for a new church building in Libreville. The church is about 500 strong and it has been meeting in a single room that can hardly hold all of them, the new building will be a huge improvememt, will seat many more people and will have offices for the pastors, and other rooms important for their church to continue growing. The work site was an amazing clash of followers of christ from two sides of the world working towards a common goal, there was music, dancing, fellowship, food, and of course plenty of hard work mixing concrete by hand, and moving literally tons of concrete, gravel and sand. Thankfully we had many hands, both American and Gaboneese to share the load, what an amazing experience!
(Alicia Typing...)
It has been an awesome week so far for me. It has been good to finally do some physical labor, but God had some different plans for me when I got two huge blisters on both the palms of my hands from tamping the dirt to make it level and compact for concrete. I was able to sit down and have some conversations with some of the Gabonese people. I had an 1 1/2 converstion with a man in Spanish. We were able to understand each other because we both had poor grammar and conjucation abilities. haha. As lunch time ended, I was really nervous for what God wanted me to do, when I was led to a room full of worship dancers for the church. I ended up dancing with them for a good 3 hours, and I was sweating just as much as the volunteers working outside with the concrete. It was good to use the international language of dance to praise God together.
Bongolo has has been really awesome so far. Yesterday, I was able to watch a surgery. The man had broken his jaw in several places and they were wiring his jaw shut. It was definitely an intense and vigorous surgery. Dan came in to watch the surgery for a few minutes, but had to leave because it was grossing him out. haha. Today, I went on a round with one of the Internal Medicine doctors here, Dr. Renee. It was very.......interesting (I am not quite sure how to describe it). A lot of patients here have tuberculosis and two of the babies we treated this morning had HIV. The medical staff here is quite amazing! They are truly doing God's work. They not only see the people as patients, but children of God that need caring for. It is great to see!
Please continue to keep us in your prayers. Pray especially for the village we are visiting tonight and showing the Jesus Film to.
Love,
Alicia and Dan
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