My Journey

On May 4th, nine students from Oklahoma Christain University (OC) in Oklahoma City, OK arrived here in Chimala.  Three of these students have been here before, but the rest were newbies.  It was very exciting for me to see the returning students and to meet and get to know the new comers. The students always bring a sense of excitement and adventure with them when they come.  The goals were for the students to get to know a little about the culture, become familiar with all the works of the mission, hold VBS at several of the small village churches and complete a project which would help one of the works at the mission.  The bus ride from Dar Es Salaam to Chimala Mission is a hard 12-14 hour drive by bus.  We left Dar at 5am and arrived at the mission around 7:30pm.  During the trip, the students were able to see miles of plains, mountains and small villages.  They also had a small glimpse of some of the animals of Tanzania as we drove thr...

Wow!  Has it really been so long since I wrote about the adventures and challenges of Chimala Mission?  Days seem to run from one to the other so quickly.  I will try to give you "high-lights" as the last 3 weeks could fill a couple of chapters in a book! We have been blessed with presence of 2 Hong Kong medical students since the 11th of April.  They have graduated from school, but have not yet completed their residency.  They have been very active in the patient care at the hospital.  Many times Grace, Tony and I are doing rounds at various times of the day/night.  I hope the hospital doctors and nurses will be encouraged by their attentiveness and professionalism.  At night, Grace and Tony came to my house and helped me in preparing new charts for the hospital.  The registration department has not been updated in many years and the hospital has been encouraged to do so by the government.  We had about 700 student portfoli...