Thursday at Mukinge

Wake up to the sounds of people walking along the road, talking, singing, laughing as the day begins. 

Join in for a short devotional time in the chapel. 

Maureen teaching week old RN nursing students

Maureen is a wonderful teacher who shares her faith with love and conviction!

Maureen will be teaching today.  She will be teaching at the Nursing School and also a devotional time for the working nurses and students at the hospital.  So Michael and I decide to explore Mukinge.   It feels a bit like stepping back in time as well as across the ocean.  The houses at Mukinge were built starting in the 1950’s and so have that nostalgic feel of an older subdivision from that time.  There are some beautiful trees and gardens even in the dry season.  We even found a basketball court and a swimming pool!  We walked up to the nursing school to see Maureen teaching – the students seemed very engaged and were even asking thoughtful questions.  Maureen is such a wonderful teacher – explaining that she is a Christian and sees nursing and medicine from that point of view.  She went on to explain using life stories why that is so important – I think the students really enjoyed having her.

Lynn's house

Michael and I returned to Lynn’s house, he decided to watch a movie and I went down to the children’s ward to see if I could cheer up anyone there..  I had made paper tissue flowers and I had a sackful of art supplies.  The flowers were a big hit, because many of the children were too little to do art – and not feeling up to it- so holding a flower was fun – when the child was asleep I would just pass a flower to the mother, who seemed to appreciate it as well.   A student named George helped me with names and some of the conditions of the children.  Pray for George to be a diligent nursing student, he has lots of potential.   I did color with a sweet little boy named Nelson, I think he was waiting with his brother.  He colored a butterfly.  Another little one who had a finger that had been bitten by a snake – didn’t want to color but liked picking the colors and I colored the butterfly -  Another child, Dias, with burns really enjoyed coloring the butterfly as well.

Michael and I met up with Lynn and Maureen for lunch at Lynn’s – left over pizza.  Maureen did another brief devotion time for the nurses.  Michael and I joined her and Lynn in Lynn’s office to help organize administrator’s papers – remind me to send so office supplies.

After that we returned home to a delicious dinner of beef tenderloin, scalloped potatoes, and cauliflower, with a peach turnover for dessert.  You have to understand what a miracle dinner can be because the power went out four times today (anywhere from twenty minutes to over an hour).  Lynn saw one of the workers in the OR theatre soon after the power went out this first time today.

We decided to watch My Fair Lady in honor of Chris McBride who kept singing lines from it at camp.  Michael fell asleep on the couch, Maureen looked like she was falling asleep on the couch, Lynn and I made it to the horse race scene and then called it a night!