Our 4th Day of Work...June 19th

What’s up everyone!! I hope that your day went well. Ours was extremely tiring. First of all, I am enjoying all of your comments, but for some reason, I'm not being able to post them. So, hopefully I will be able to post your comments soon; if not, please don't be too upset. We arrived at the clinic to find the Ghanaian press there to do a press conference with everyone. They interviewed Dad and Dr. Kodi, while examining how the clinic works. After that, we needed to attend to the numerous patients, who had been waiting since early that morning. After today, we have casted 54 people for legs. Everyone worked and worked today until they were absolutely exhausted. Today was the first day to give out legs. Dad and Papa handed out Life and Limb bags and prayed for the patients as they got ready to leave the clinic. For those of you who don’t know, Life and Limb bags are bags filled with supplies to help maintain and take care of the prosthetic leg. It also includes a sheet of laminated paper that explains how to take care of the leg and the other side explains why they got this leg….which is because of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Along with the Life and Limb bag, we give a Bible to each patient. Our first above the knee amputee walked out of the clinic today and the event was quite moving. On the other side, we are all a little sad to see one of our prosthetist leave…Jim McElhiney. Mr. Jim was only able to come for one week and the work he did was quite amazing. There are numerous individuals that will be walking next week because of Mr. Jim and the people who supported his trip. Jim also trained James, clinic worker, extensively during his time here. Right before we left the clinic, James and Kodi said their goodbyes to Jim. James began to cry saying, “I miss Jim, I love him.” Thank you Mr. Jim for all your work and we can’t wait to see how the Lord uses your wonderful work the rest of this week and next. Talk to you all tomorrow!!!

Lord Bless,

Parker

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