Faith

Faith is so evident, clear and spoken about here in Africa. I feel free and finally content that I can care for patients and show them Gods love and compassion through actions but also through prayer. It is such an encouragement to walk down the hall and see people praying together in a little group, walking into the ward where the patients and day workers from Freetown are singing freely and worshipping their God, sit by someone and have them ask for you to pray for them, walk hand in hand with a patient to surgery and pray with them before they walk through the OR door, praying for peace before a shift and thanking God for another day and honour to serve Him in Africa. I ask patients how they are doing and their response so often is' By Gods, grace I am well'. I am sitting here on a night shift listening to Tamba who is 40 praying and exercising as he does. He has recently had a Mastectomy (breast removal) for a cancer. He is now on treatment that he has managed to pay for himself for a year but he needs to have the treatment for 5 years. It is so difficult to know that we cannot help everyone as volunteers on the ship and as a charity. Our money and resources just do not extend to providing chemo or required medication to all patients. It is so frustrating to know that even if we had all the money in the world we still would not be able to help everyone physically however, it is a blessing that the ship managed to removed the cancer before it spread any further. The best thing we can do is pray!

God is a very present help and source of strength for these patients. It blesses me to see their faith and hope in God and that He is praised in good and bad times. Tamba is one such a patient who displays such faith in God. He knows that even if he does not have the money to pay for treatment for the whole 5 years he is trusting and relying on God. Do you trust that God holds your future and cares for you? His love is so unlimited and free and He just wants you to accept it. Trust that He knows what our future holds and cares so deeply for us. He just wants us to accept His gift of freedom, peace and love. All things work together for good even if we cant see it or understand it.

Ephesians 3 v 20:To Him who is able to do far more than all we ask or even think be glory forever and ever.