In four days, Alex and I (and 10 others), will be departing for a Health Care Mission Trip to Uganda. This trip is with the OCMC (Orthodox Christian Mission Center). We will be serving the Ugandan people through prayer and medicine. There will be many nurses, doctors, a seminarian, and Alex and I. During the course of our trip we, as a group, plan to visit many outlining areas of Uganda, set up clinics, and treat as many people as we possibly can.

I am all at once excited, and terrified! I have always been so grateful for the medical treatment that we have access to here in America. When our daughter was born, she was in the NICU for almost 4 weeks. I shudder to think what would have happened if we lived in another country. When either of our children gets a cold, we have the ability to take them to the doctor, get medicine, and a day or so later, they are back to their normal selves. So, I am truly excited to give back. And to do this with my husband makes it all the more special. To be able to serve these people together, to work side by side, to watch each other help people, is an experience that I will never forget. However the enormity, the vastness, the amount of people that we will treat, and inevitably have to turn away, terrifies me. I have never been to Africa, nor do I have any medical skills (other than being a mother, which, does give me the ability to give some care 🙂 ).

So I pray. I pray that God will give me the words to pray, the love to share, and the insight to “know” what I am supposed to do.

Please pray for us as we travel abroad in a few short days. And also, please pray for our children, as we have never left them for more that an overnight visit to the grandparent’s house. (And to that, please pray for the grandparents, who will be watching our children for 2 weeks! 🙂 )