Saturday July 23
Hospital Esquela (teaching hospital) Lanetta Dusty and I went to the pediatrics ward where visited and prayed with many sick children ranging from a few days to teens. Teen patients seemed extremely grateful to receive prayers on their behalf, and mothers of the infants were definitely happy to have us beseeching the LORD on their children's welfare.
I have to be very honest, hospital visitation is my least favorite area of Christian ministry. It leaves me emotionally drained, it is very hard for me to see people in such pain and suffering. Yet I did as the LORD commanded and visited and prayed with them, asking the LORD to see these suffering people through their illness and back to their much needed health. Many difficult cases awaited the learning physicians there and we prayed that GOD would be with those interns as they gathered knowledge and that he would grant them the wisdom to use that knowledge to the benefit of the sick and suffering.
After leaving the Hospital, we stopped by the October 21 project which is a home for juvenile boys who had been living on the streets. Some excitement ensued very soon after we arrived as one of the boys took advantage of our distraction to attempt an escape so we left before getting to truly learn more about the center.
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