How do I Keep Informed?
With homeschool in a summer break, we've been traveling quite a bit to get some clinic work done. Mother's Day Weekend was a busy one as we left Friday (the 7th) to drive to Ewaso Ngiro and I worked in the new clinic in the afternoon. We were thrilled to open this new clinic in March; it's currently in rented facilities and we hope to begin construction on the permanent building this month. Dave wants to break ground soon so a group of 23 high schoolers (from Southeast Christian Church in Louisville) coming in June can help with the construction process. Plus there is the goal to finish the new clinic by the time we leave on furlough! By the way, no, we don't plan to move there ourselves, but the Sankok family (Maasai nurses) have moved there to oversee and run this clinic. We visit periodically for me to see patients and for Dave to give administrative oversight. The permanent clinic building includes plans for staff housing as well .... someday in the future!!
Our clinic system is also expanding with the Highfield's clinic, which is where we drove to and worked on the 8th. These teammates built this clinic years ago and it has been staffed and run as a private clinic by one of their church leaders (who was trained for a couple of months by a doctor in Narok). When they started this project years ago, we were swamped with famine relief and the other clinics and felt we couldn't take on another one. However, the combination of realizing the community sees it as a CMF clinic anyway, the substandard condition and care of this clinic (with a clinician who just hasn't received much training and has poor medicine stocks), and the improved staffing that we have including significant administrative help from John Sankok (the nurse that Dave is training to eventually take his place) now puts us in a position to offer significant help to this clinic. Basically, we are "taking it into the fold" and incorporating it into our clinic system. We will be adding staff and medicine
inventory as well as medical oversight by me. We also hope to build a staff house ( the current clinician and his family are living in one room of the clinic!) and improve other furniture (they don't have an exam bed!) and supplies. Whew!
Yes, homeschool is over for the year! YEAH!!!!! Rebekah passed 3rd grade with flying colors. Lauren, well, she's still struggling with letters and sounds. Since we finished the preschool curriculum, she says "I know everything ....I've done all the way to Z!" I'm not quite so enthusiastic! She is getting slowly better; we'll see how Kindergarten goes in the fall. For now we're all ready for a break!! The girls are really enjoying playing all day together and watching lots of videos. Rebekah has started an ambitious Summer Reading Program (30 books of 100 pages each..... 3000 pages total!) in order to win a Gameboy. She's already read 300 pages the first week. I think she'll have no problem as she loves to stay up at night reading in bed, and she's really picked up speed in her silent reading. And she enjoys it! ...which is such a relief to her teacher!!
This summer is certainly going to be busy for us. We will be hosting 5 CMF REACH summer interns interested in medical missions for 7-8 weeks beginning June 17. (I think I must have slipped a synapse when I agreed to that!!) They are a combination of nursing and premed students and one ministerial student. They will all be at our house for 2 weeks, then we'll set them up at 1-2 away clinics and do quite a bit of traveling to work together with them at each site. We're hoping and praying that it will be a great experience for them, one which God uses to encourage them in future mission service in some aspect.
Well, we have a couple coming home with Dave today. He drove a carload of Maasai folks to the Ewaso Ngiro Training Center for a Marriage Seminar which begins today, and then will be bringing our visitors back with him; they are a couple from Johnson City, TN area and the husband was in school at Emmanuel with Dave. They served as furlough replacements in Ethiopia for a CMF missionary family this past year. They have finished their one year term and will head back to the States soon, but wanted to see Masai Mara while they were in Kenya..... so we'll be hosting them for three days.
Thanks again for all of your prayers for us. We are also grateful for Franklin Christian's faithful financial support... through all these years! You all have been a blessing to us! Please greet everyone at church for us.
In His Love,
Suzie for Dave, Rebekah and Lauren
We challenge our supporting churches to designate this summer's VBS offerings for the purchase of clinic motorcycles. These motorcycles are an important asset to CMF's medical and evangelistic ministry. They provide the only means for the clinic workers to reach remote areas when someone is critically ill.
Checks should be made payable and sent to:
CMF International
P.O. Box 501020
Indianapolis, IN 46250-6020
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