An excerpt from our friend Suzanne at Father's House in Uganda, about their recent medical mission team:

Over five days in a northern town called Kitgum, and one outreach day here in our neighboring fishing village, we gave comprehensive medical care to over 1500 people! Wow! There was an ocean full of people we had to turn away...but seeing as our ministry is first unto Father, we were able to stay focused on Him and see each individual that we touched with our hands, held with our arms and prayed over with our hearts as an extension of His very own nature.

My main job was in Pharmacy, taking time with patients to explain each medicine prescribed by the Doctors. It thrilled my heart to be able to hand over agents of physical healing to such disease-ridden people, many of them suffering with three or four serious conditions all at once! How they survive and function is beyond me! 

We were inundated with people wherever we set up...hundreds flocking to receive free medical care. The IDP (Internally Displaced People) Camps were thronging with frantic families, orphans and widows, all hoping desperately for anything we could offer. At one point a World Vision food distribution truck arrived and people lunged toward that line, giving us a bit of relief. The need was truly overwhelming and great indeed...we did imagine in some small way how Jesus Himself felt day after day, seeing the crowds of needy people waiting for a Touch. Yet I took comfort in John 14:6 and Isaiah 9:6 during these days...asking the Father to initiate His works and words, and allowing the government of our family and work to rest on His shoulders, our Eternal Father.

Our evenings were spent lifting an evening sacrifice of worship, thanksgiving and tears before the Lord, and then affirming each other with testimonies of the day. I took along my trusty guitar, experiencing the flow of His Spirit in song and tenderly caring for each other in prayer. Milestones of victory and endurance were established; complaining laid down in exchange for grace...

Ryan Wright went to Kampala, Uganda, in May, 2009. She stayed with our precious friends at Fathers House (see Suzanne's recent words on a medical mission), and visited the slums and Ray of Hope.  We will be returning in September, 2009.