Long, long day and night…we held medical clinic at our partner church in Tarime, Tanzania, and people just kept coming. They were begging for treatment, even as darkness fell and we were trying to pack up medicines. We worked while holding flashlights, finding medications, and explaining how to measure out Tylenol and vitamins for the children.
Oh, Lord, I am calling out. Do you see? Are you listening? Do you hear these people as they are crying out for help? I know in my heart You are listening and you do see the suffering and the pain. But above all, you see their need to believe. We all need to believe in your Son, it’s just that so many people, it seems especially true in these poor African villages – so many people have not heard and do not understand the hope that is in Christ.
Do they really understand when we tell them? I do not know the answer to that question. I can only depend on your sovereign mercy and grace, that in our obedience to take the gospel into these villages, You will accomplish the rest, and the harvest will be ripe.
As we treated people in the darkness, Pastor Moses showed the movie, “The Passion of Christ” – an emotional and very graphic portrayal of the last days of our Savior. People wept openly; Pastor Moses had difficulty translating because of his own emotion. It is a difficult film to watch, yet is most likely a very accurate picture of what our Lord had to endure. People gave their hearts to Christ, and we rejoiced as we wept – tears of joy, yes, but also exhaustion and emotions that we cannot even completely describe. God is working in such ways that we cannot understand and we are thankful to see His hand surrounding us in this African village in Tanzania.
From Dr. Brenda in Tanzania
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