Day 13
Sept. 7, 2010
Lifeline Malawi Mission House, Ngodzi

6:30 am  Brian’s devotions had a focus on the prayer of Ignatius
Layola – “Work as if everything depended on God and pray as if
everything depended on you.”

7:00 am  Breakfast

7:45 am  Sr. Gertrude took charge of putting together one of the long
lost wheelbarrows that had showed up yesterday.

8:15 am  The whole team departed for Matowe, the outreach clinic site,
half the team to do a medical clinic and health promotion at the
school and the other half to work on the building project. Today at
the worksite the mudding of the walls was being done with great skill
by the local tradesmen. The breeze block windows and the moving of the
never ending pile of bricks were completed by the PEI team. For the
medical portion, Marilyn was the key note speaker for an assembly on
health issues. The assembly was held under a tree in the school yard!
She did an amazing job. The children (numbering around 700) sang after
the talk while Hank and Marilyn danced for them. Vitamins were
distributed to each child at the school by visiting each classroom
(grade 1 class had 153 students with one teacher – wow).  The children
were all screened for scalp ringworm and anemia.

1:00 pm  The team headed back to the compound for lunch.  After lunch
Connie starting counting pills for distribution tomorrow in the
Chilambula School.  Sr. Gertrude and Brian stayed on at the building
site.

2:00 pm  The medical team worked the afternoon clinic

4:00 pm  More pill counting while Marilyn, Chelsea and Victoria headed
out to do a home visit on a palliative care patient with some type of
cancer of his leg and dropped off a wheel chair.  They ministered to
him with prayer and encouragement.

6:00 pm  Dinner of Chambo fish, head and skin on!

7:15 pm  Back to pill counting and blogging, finishing around 9 pm.

9:00 pm  Some heading off to bed.  The roosters start crowing outside
our windows around 5:00 am.