Liina and I went back to the community where we stayed a few weeks ago. We were excited to get back and spend time with the community. We were only there 5 minutes when Fortunate started to share with us what has taken place that week. She helps lead a team of 24 volunteers that go and visit 600 patients a week to just to check on them, serve them, listen to them, and pray over them. That last time we were there we had visited 5 patients with Fortunate. She was like do you remember that young girl with the brain tumor, she died this week. You remember that one patient with TB (tuberculosis), she died this week. You remember this other patient, they died this week. Also her oldest daughter, who is 13, had 3 classmates die. After we got to her home, her husband shared that his grandmother had died. It was an overwhelming day of grief to know that you just touched, listened, served these patients a couple of weeks ago and now they are gone. My heart is broken for the different communities that God is allowing me to serve at the moment. Every Saturday, people never makes plans because usually you are at a funeral every Saturday or Sunday morning. It is just reality here. I think that the worst part is that people are dying from things that they should not be dying from like lack of medications, basic medical treatment, and health education. People just don't know the most simple things that we take for granted everyday.

It is this reality that keeps us working hard everyday. It is these faces that are in our hearts that we cannot see anymore with our own eyes or touch with our hands. It is why people in Hands at Work work so passionately because we don't know who we know that death's grip will take next. I find hope in the depth of faith the team works with here. They realize that everyday, to do what they do, to fulfill God's vision and calling in their hearts, they need a daily miraculous intervention from God for any of it to take place. I don't think that I have ever lived my life this way until now. Living a life where God needs to miraculously intervene so that His work can be done through me. What step of faith did you take today that God needed to miraculously intervene?