Well, it’s the end of day three. It’s after ten here and we’re all beat. But, wow, God is doing powerful things in the lives of the men on the team.
The medical team split up and went to two different clinics and spent hours upon hours diagnosing and treating patients – the medical guys’ schedules were announced in each of the three churches we attended yesterday, so more than 2,000 Gabonese heard that the ‘American Medical Team’ was in town. They said it was crazy busy! (Today’s med teams consisted of Don Hay, Pharmacist and John Davis, Jr., Pharmacist (umm, by the way, neither of them has ever seen the professional end of a pill bottle before…), and Dr. Mike DiMarcangelo, John Davis III, and Brian Roberts actually have worked in medicine before. Tomorrow, I’ll be doing surgery. Viva la Gabon!
The rest of the team (me, Fred Pschunder, Mark Anderson, Kevin Summerville, Dave Martin, and John Wager) spent the day battling compressors (we burned out two), heat and dust (think six men in Shake ‘n Bake), and language barriers to actually get a few things done in the hostel we are helping to finish. More of the same tomorrow.
Speaking for the latter group, we had two great 10 minute walks to and from the construction site through the ‘cartier’ (like the jeweler, it means neighborhood). The people are poor and beautiful with contagious joy and smiles. We had a chance to make some friends of five local young boys (Joshua, Joshua, Ike, Emmanuel, and Caleb. Joshua looked like my son Max – he had the same bright eyes – wow, do I miss my family! I love you guys. Can someone remember to check in on the Linda vs. Lyme saga?)
If you get a chance, check out Joshua 1:1-5; we read that tonight and spent a long time mentioning all of God’s promises. Very cool moment.
Well, we love you all. By the way, it’s Africa hot here.
Erik Rebstock
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