We are vicariously exuberant for this monumental step in Burundi's healthcare expansion and development! Even though we aren't part of the team, we aren't WHM missionaries, we have never been to Burundi and don't even have our visas yet, this exciting beginning is hugely profound to us. We have been following the adventures of these people since shortly after they became united as a team over 6 years ago. Seeds were planted in our hearts way back in 2008 as we started praying for the Faders (whom Hank met as a freshman in college), the McLaughlins, and the Cropseys during their training at Tenwek Hospital in Kenya.
Here are the six McCropder doctors: experienced, well-trained, knowledgeable, and yet still desperately in need of God's strength for what lies ahead. In Carlan's email update yesterday, he told of being confronted with AIDS, leprosy, tuberculosis and cerebral malaria, toxoplasmosis and typhoid all within his first few days seeing patients. There is no end to the list of challenges, disappointments, miracles, and triumphs that are going to constitute the news of the coming months and years for this team. Pray for them please! Among many other specific requests, this stuck out to me and I love that this is the cry of their hearts. They say, "O God, help us to love. Whatever we do, let us do it with your love." Yes. Let it be so.
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