Oct. 15, 2003
Dear Friends,
First of all, we thank those of you who have tried to email us and were unable to get through during the recent troubles with our Ghana server. We believe we have found a solution that will result in more reliable email, so if you did not receive a reply to a personal email, please resend it.Your messages are important to us.
We appreciate all of your prayers for our wound patients and the people of this area in general. Ali is the man mentioned in our report about Tamale Hospital. On a recent Sunday Ali stood up in church to request prayers of thanksgiving for his recovery from his illness. He still has some minor problems, but his strength has returned. The people with whom he lives were amazed to see him return from Tamale - they assumed that he would not recover from his weakened condition.
While the people here are dependent on the rainy seasons for their subsistence farming, few of their houses are built to withstand the rains well. Almost every year there are accidents when a degraded wall or undermined foundation results in a collapse. Victoria is one of the clinic interpreters. Last Sunday Victoria's sister asked for prayers of thanks. She had noticed something was vaguely amiss and stepped out of her room just before the walls collapsed. Her neighbors immediately came to rescue her and were all quite surprised to see her standing outside the room without any injuries. A few weeks ago Asana, the other interpreter at the clinic, lost a room of her house when the walls collapsed (pictured at right below). A little girl was hit by the walls and is terribly bruised and scraped, but no one died, so they are also praising the Lord. Both Victoria and Asana take in many needy children, so they need sound accommodations. A handicapped church member has appealed to the benevolence committee to repair his partially collapsed room - since he lost his leg in an auto accident, he cannot farm, so he relies upon the Yendi church for all his needs. Not all of the news is good: one of our evangelists, Musah, lost a grandson when his daughter's house collapsed. The rains seem to be coming to an end at last, so this problem should be diminishing as well.
We know many of you prayfor our patients and for our own health and that of our co-workers.The clinic director, Peter Bombande, left on Monday for a one year educational program to upgrade his skills. We are happy he is able to do this, but we will be very short-staffed while he is gone. We have been trying for years to recruit an additional Ghanaian to help see patients, but it is difficult to find anyone willing to move to Yendi long-term. Please pray that qualified doctors and nurses, both from the USA and from Southern Ghana, will think of our need over the next year and will come to help during their vacation time.
In the Service of Our King,
The Benskin Family
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