This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and
be glad in it. Psalm 118:24
On Monday through Friday
this is what my day looks like: Wake up
at 5:30am and go for a run. Take a
shower, eat breakfast, drink some coffee and have a quiet time. The van picks us up at 7:45am. Go to the ICM office and have morning meeting/devotions with
the staff. Get our assignments for the
day. Leave the ICM office around 9-10
and head to the village where we will do ministry for the day. Get back around 4-5pm. Maybe check email, go to the grocery store,
and eat dinner. Go to bed around 8 or
9pm (sun goes down around 5:45-6pm), and do the same thing the next day.
Medical Missions! This past week I spent 3 of my ministry days with the OAC (open-air clinic).
During the medical missions we go to a church
and set up a table inside where people are able to sign up with the pastor/a
and visit the doctor. They are weighed
and if over the age of 20 their BP is taken.
Then they see the doctor and the pharmacists. They are usually given a multi-vitamin,
ascorbic acid (Vit C), or B-complex Vitamin.
They might also receive antibiotics or some type of high blood pressure
medication. There is a lot of high blood
pressure, but then most of the food is fried.
They use vegetable or coconut oil to cook all of the foods in because it
is the cheapest oil to buy in the store, but is also some of the unhealthiest
oil to cook with and is probably causing some of their heart disease.
I worked specifically with the pharmacists this
week and was asking question about the medications. ICM purchases the medications with the money
donated to their ministry. They are
budgeted to buy PhP 22,000 (roughly $450) a month and will see about 1,000
people per month. They go to the same
town every other month and when they give out the medication such as Vit-B
Complex, Vit C, or MVI they are only give 15 pills because that is all that
they can afford to give them. They only
have a certain amount to give to each town and when they run out, then they
just run out and some people might not receive anything that month.
about how in America we are flushing Rx drugs down the toilet at the end of
each month because they are unused, or the person who’s name is on the bottle
has passed away. There are so many
people in other countries and even in our own country who can’t afford their
medication and we are just wasting drugs because that is our “policy”. I wish that there was a way to
send it to other countries, give to medical mission organizations, or someone else who
could use them, instead of flushing them down the toilet.
