Leaving in 9 days

 

Hi friends,

 

These last couple weeks as the PHC we have looked at community development, mother and child health and nutrition.
Community development looks at how do we partner with community's for them to succeed without growing dependency, and using the resources they have.
Mother and child health looked at how we do antenatal checks, and what should be included in a birth plan and birth kit, and what a normal delivery can look like. We also did a workshop practicing asking questions and talking mums through their first antenatal appointment, and all the complications that come up with other religions and worldviews that don't value life.
On nutrition week we talked about food broken up to 4 main groups, vitamins and minerals, deficiencies when we don't have certain vitamins/minerals, malnutrition, 5 increased needs in pregnancy, and weaning foods. We took turns practicing teaching and getting comfortable being able to say what foods have different nutrients. We also practiced child weighing which goes hand in hand with weaning foods and making sure children are growing and developing.
Student have been getting so excited, getting more confident in their skills and knowledge, and so ready for outreach in 3 weeks.

We have had some developments regarding flights and departure times. The airfares from April 3rd are going up and jumped almost $500 per person. Rather than committing to that extra cost, we are now looking to leave about a week earlier on the 28th of March.

Last week Kathy was in Kona for UofN meetings, and as a school we prayed and researched Zambia and South Sudan. We started each day praying together for the nation's and researching different aspects of culture, history, religion, traditions, health care needs and ending it all with what God's heart is towards them.
We bought plane tickets on Thursday (still trusting to be able to get Christopher's ticket) and we'll be leaving March 28th which is so soon and exciting.
As a team we practiced setting up tents that we'll use in South Sudan, looking at our medical bags and glasses we'll also be taking which was really exciting since it so soon.
Next week we're looking at first aid, CPR, essential drugs, and mobile clinics + outreach prep in the final stages.

We have received 2x more donations of $50 today so far. We are down to now trusting for $1,400!
God has been so faithful to provide through you all, we are so thankful and blown away.

Prayer-
- still trusting for the finances to come in so Chris can come with us on outreach, $1,400
- prayer since we leave in 9 days and then will be on the ground running
- for everything to come together and next week's class and prep time will go smoothly.
- I’ll be helping lead the outreach, really trusting for wonderful opportunities and trusting for it to all go well.

 
Me and Chris have an fb page we update regularly, with even more pictures and what's going on if you'd like to join let us know. If you'd like to support anyway please contact me or check our Finance page with ways you can give.

Love you much,

Joannah and Christopher Whitby