We hope that you remember that we recently shared the story of a hospital that we work with in the Congo. When our friend took over the facility, it didn’t even have electricity, and he had to do surgery with a flashlight. When Delron visited him in October of last year, he saw a group of about a dozen pregnant women camping out on the lawn. The doctor explained that they had no way of knowing when they were due; so, they came early to avoid having to travel on the rough African roads when in labor. Teach All Nations bought him a portable ultrasound machine so he could test the women to see how their babies are coming along. When Peggy was with him in March of this year, she delivered the machine and asked to see it in use. On the inaugural use of the machine, he discovered a problem with the baby and had to do an emergency C-section – saving a life on the very first time he used the machine!
You may also remember that we have shared about a clinic that we are helping to build in a remote village in Liberia. Since the closest hospital is miles away on roads that are impassable in the rainy season and nothing more than ruts in the dry season, many of the villagers die before they can reach the facility for treatment. The new clinic is scheduled for completion in the next few weeks, but there are no funds for beds, medical equipment, or even a stethoscope!
Praise God, He has provided us with a connection to a ministry that will send a forty-foot shipping container filled with medical equipment valued at around $400,000 to each of these facilities if we can raise the funds to pay the shipping costs of about $35,000 each for a total of $70,000! On top of this challenge, we are still in the early stages of funding the expansion of the Bible school in Nepal and opening libraries around the world for those who cannot afford to buy their own copies of our books.
Although Teach All Nations is not a humanitarian organization, we simply can’t ignore the human needs that we encounter as we work with our trusted ministry partners around the world. So, all the funds that we dedicate to such projects have to be over and above the operating costs for our primary mission of training a new generation of ministry leaders – a calling that we are actively engaged in with pastor’s conferences and book distributions scheduled for India, Albania, and Honduras before the end of the year. We appreciate your prayer and financial support for this project.
