Seeds of Grace

Hello from the Grace UMC team.  We had a great week in Maua, but we were unable to post on the blog while we were there.  Our team spent the week at Maua Methodist Hospital.  On Monday Jan and I (the nurses) spent the day at an AIDS clinic out in the community.  We had a very busy day and saw many patients.  Gennet, Mary Lou, Bob and Dale were able to see the house that the Grace team built the last time they were in Kenya.  They also toured a farm and a school.  On Tuesday Jan and I worked on the pediatric unit of Maua methodist hospital.  It was a difficult day for us because we saw so many children that are suffering.  The rest of the week the whole Grace team spent time painting the apartments that are available for the visiting staff and doing inventory of the supplies that we brought to the hospital. 

While at the hospital, we had several kids that followed us around.  They were patients of the hospital.  These children waited for us to come everyday.  They were very sweet and smiled a giggled at us all the time.  They also loved to have their picture taken.  We will miss seeing their smiling faces everyday.

On Friday we met up with the Seeds of Grace team in Meru.  We are all staying at the bio-intensive farm and it is a beautiful place.  Today we all worked at a clinic.  I think we treated around 2,500 patients.  It was very chaotic, but is the only way most of the people for Meru get any medical care. 

We are all doing well and having a great time in Kenya.  I hope everyone is doing well at home.  Mom, Dad, Nate, Laura, and Carly, I miss you all and hope you are doing well.  Give my puppy dog a kiss for me :-)

-Emily