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Ministry Update


Bridget Stanley

August/September 2022

Thank you again for all of your support and prayers.  I cannot do this work in Mozambique without God’s direction and your prayers.  August was an amazing month!  There have been so many exciting things happening at the clinic! 


In the first week of August, I returned to Mozambique and soon after my arrival, Valeria, our clinic pastor, soon followed.  Her long term visa was approved and has quickly settled into her pastoral role at the clinic.  She meets with the caregivers as they wait to be seen with the children, to receive the milk for the babies.  This is a sweet time to hear the hearts of those that are often overlooked.  These caregivers step into a role that is not planned or desired.  But, because they long to have these children grow up strong and healthy, they seek help to care these children. 

Revitaltized Program!


During the time of ministry in the clinic, Valeria, who was a school psychologist in Argentina, identified the need to provide social and educational stimulation for our special needs children.  She wrote the program design and curriculum to include the caregivers; integrating them into play, physical touch and speaking words of life over every child from the bible.  The response of the caregivers has been joy, laughter, enjoyment of the bonding time with the children.  The children have been responding with laughter, giggles and smiles that are so contagious.  The joy of the Lord is present in every session that Valeria leads.  Each child is experiencing love in ways that the Lord had intended.  The sessions are so much fun for the children and the caregivers.  We currently have 90 special needs children enrolled in our program, and as we track each child’s progress, we will study how they are responding to the classes; how it impacts their progress and health.  

We Welcome our Mozambican Nurse!


We also have welcomed Vitoria, our first Mozambican nurse, to our clinic.  She attended secondary school at Paso a Paso, an educational program that was designed and is under the leadership of Francis and Ursula Fitzsimon, an Irish couple that just celebrated 30 years of missionary service in Mozambique.  She then attended nursing school in Mozambique. Having grown up with iReachAfrica in her backyard she has volunteered with the school program and is well known by the other staff here on base.  She is a wonderful new addition to the clinic where she interacts with each child and caregiver with dignity and respect and makes them feel at ease as she is attending to them.  This has been an answer to prayer!

Please join me in prayer as I bring these needs before God:

 

  • All paperwork and documents quickly processed for the American nurses that are to join us in October.  We have the approval for their entry visas, we have one more step before they are granted the year long visa.  


  • Health and healing for each child and caregiver.  We are entering the summer season, which means that the incidence of parasitic infections rises as the water supplies in the rivers and streams dry up. 


  • Please pray for supply chains to open up so that we can purchase the food necessary to bolster the nutrition of these children, as well as baby bottles, which are in short supply. 


Again, I cannot thank you enough for your prayers and support.  They are felt on this side of the world!  Is there something I can pray for you?  

 

God bless you!

Bridget

iReachAfrica

Health Clinic Administrator

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