Upon our arrival in India, Team Kindred and Team Rise discovered that our ministry assignment would be very different from previous months. Instead of staying in one location, we would spend two weeks traveling to a few different locations. Two other teams would come along with us to be dropped off at their respective ministry sites. At each place – seven in all – we were partnered with a medical team and running health clinics. This team included a doctor, an optometrist, three nurses, a pharmacist, and a lab technician.
If you’re wondering what a bunch of inexperienced Americans (with the exception of Kaitlyn, Laura, and Eric) are doing running a medical clinic, you’re in good company, because so was I. But I discovered on day one that it takes a ton of people to successfully run a clinic. There’s crowd control, directing people to the appropriate location, registration, filling prescriptions, and we also had a prayer room staffed for any interested patient.
We asked each person who came through the clinics if they wanted prayer. Most of them said yes, and some incredible things happened. We witnessed people be healed of all kinds of things – cataracts, joint pain, respiratory issues, and even one deaf woman was able to hear again. On top of that, we saw some of them accept Christ. Devout Hindus walked into the room and left wanting to follow Jesus.
I actually wasn’t in the prayer room for any of this – I was stationed in the pharmacy most of the time – but I was happy to be a gear in the machine that made all of this happen. At the end of the day it doesn’t matter who does what task, as long as the work is being done for the kingdom.
