Outreach Trip to Local Hospital

Today we went to a local hospital to do some outreach for the people who are there. This included the patients as well as the family members who were visiting them. This hospital is very different than the hospitals we have in the states. The patients are together in one large room. There are a couple of half walls that divide the room into smaller sections. The beds are right next to each other. There is basically no privacy from anyone else while you are staying there. What we did was walk into the middle of the room and sang some worship songs in Chichewa and one of the pastors gave a short sermon. After that we prayed for them and handed out a paper with some verses on them that they can read if they want to know more about Jesus. We did that in three different areas of the hospital. There was about 12 of us in our group. At first it was kind of uncomfortable, especially being a group of white people in a hospital filled with no white people. We were already getting a ton of looks and stares as we were walking in. What is cool is that after we started singing and preaching the Holy Spirit totally came in and gave a feeling of peace in the hospital. That place was covered in so much prayer it was awesome. The Lord totally gives you strength to do things that make you uncomfortable. It is a good reminder to rely on His strength not our own. Through Christ all things are possible.