Day 10

                      Group photo outside the church/clinic in Lebu (where ACT housing complex is)

                   

                      Our daily group photo. Gizaw is pictured in the far left. (The Boston Team is                                                                                really into "selfies")

                                                           Another daily group photo

Sunday Worship about to start at Suki, the service was filled with children under 10 years

Today will be a short entry with various photos from the past few days.  We had a productive but long day at clinic, seeing patients at Gizaw Melese's church. Gizaw works with ACT as the Referral Coordinator and has been our "main man" here, coordinating and accompanying us with all our travels back and forth to the different clinic sites we have been to. He is a joyful man.

To introduce the Boston team that we have worked alongside for the past 11 days, there is Daniel, the Boston group leader who has an M Div and is pursuing ordination, Julia a Physical Therapist whom we have run ragged with all the musculoskeletal problems we have seen here, Rashaad, a graduate student in Counseling and Theology at Gordon Conwell, Decca, a nurse practitioner from Alabama whose specialty is HIV medicine, Tom an RN from Boston who works in the VA and Sun, a post-baccalaureate pre-medical student at Harvard.

Our teams have bonded through the fun and games of "Scattergories" in the evenings after a long day, and through the camaraderie that comes from working alongside each other as a team. We have come to rely on each other to adapt to unpredictable and stressful circumstances, in order to achieve our common mission, which is to serve the many people that come to the clinics with significant medical, spiritual and social needs.