Timtok is one of our CHE (Community Health Evangelism) centers. It is a village about 4 miles outside of Tonj town, and the closest CHE center to our compound. Our heart this year is to re-establish the 10 CHE centers we have already begun a work in, starting with a basic assessment of each village and asking the Holy Spirit to show us three villages that we should begin to focus on. Dr Jono is keen to pour into our CHE program and will oversee the training and facilitating of TOT (Training of Trainers) workshops. Suzy will connect our 10 CHE villages with churches committed to praying for those CHE programs.

Pastor Santino brought this woman with her child to our attention after she showed up in the clinic in a very bad condition due to lack of food.  Her name is Amou Gum and she walked from the village of Aliic, which is 4 hours away on foot. Her baby daughter, Kuoi Deng, is almost one year and suffering from diarrhea and malaria.

Amou Gum asked us to pray for her as her entire family is starving in the village. Her husband’s cows were stolen in the recent cattle raids and now they have nothing to sell to buy food. Her mother and her brother both recently died so there has been no one to plant the garden for food. Her brother’s family is also suffering and starving.

We helped her with as much food as she can carry to go back to her home and shared with her that God directed her to us so we can be praying for their situation. We plan to take her more food and to do a follow up visit to Aliic village to be a potential CHE (community health evangelism) center.  Please pray for the food crisis in the surrounding villages, we are seeing a number of malnourished infants in the clinic.

We are so thankful to God for our pastors. Everyday they meet and pray with our patients and tell us of special cases and needs to pray for. Here is a case that really touched our hearts.  Please pray for Yar chol and her son Chol.

This is her second child, and she brought him to our clinic because he has a swollen head. Before she came to us she had taken him to over 15 witch-doctors who had taken all her money (cattle) and there was no change. So desperate she decided to walk to Tonj and try our clinic. It’s awesome to be able to share with her that God planned for her to come to us so HE could help her. We suspect Chol of having hydrocephelus, also known as water on the brain. As you can see the child ‘s head  in the picture is quite large. Yar Chol has already lost her first child and has a lot of fear about losing this child. Last year we referred two similar cases to Kenya for surgery and sadly both children died. The cost and logistics of that has made us reluctant to proceed in that direction again. We shared the gospel with her and told her Jesus can heal Chol but more importantly his mother can experience great peace and hope in the midst of this difficult situation. Please join us in praying for this mother and her son.

It is an awesome experience to welcome a new life into the world. Rosa and I got to assist our nurse Annie with a delivery. Meet baby Phillippio! (Named after Rosa’s husband Phil).