Have you ever wondered what a medical mission trip is really like? Or perhaps you’d like to see how your prayers and financial gifts make a difference on the mission field. Here’s a close-up view of just a few special moments during the medical clinics conducted by the Oral Roberts Ministries/Hunger Needs a Voice® team in Nicaragua. It’s an amazing sight!
At his station, Dr. Gary Lee picks up a broomstick. Raising it over his head and stretching to one side and then the other, he demonstrates to a tired housewife how to treat her frozen shoulder. Nearby, Dr. Terence Carey briefly shares his testimony with a young man, aged 17. As it happens, Dr. Carey became a Christian himself at age 17. He leads his young patient to accept Jesus into his heart.
Meanwhile, critical care nurse Denise Warner and Dr. Marta Bennett pray for a woman with hearing problems and abdominal pain. The woman starts to cry as she realizes her ears have opened up. Then, as she heads to the pharmacy area to get medicine and food, she realizes the abdominal pain is also gone! She returns to the doctors to rejoice over her healing.
Dr. Fred Hogan is delighted to discover that his young patient, a preteen also named Fred, wants to be a doctor. They talk medicine. Around the corner, prayer counselors Melvin Cross and Lindsay Davis pray for the finances of a family that has just finished their doctor’s visit. At the pharmacy area, manned by nurse Brenda Isaacs and other volunteers, thankful families pick up medicines, vitamins, rice, and other food to take home with them. These individual touches between the Oral Roberts Ministries team and the people of Nicaragua were a moving sight. More importantly, they were personal demonstrations of the love of God in action.
At one point, Dr. Carey pointed at his fellow team members and the people they were helping. “This is Jesus intervening in these people’s lives,” he said. And the power of that intervention was made plain as person after person emerged from the clinics with a lighter step…and with hope for a better future.