Hello everyone!
After travelling for over 24hrs, my team and I, along with all of our luggage (thank God!) arrived safely in Cameroon yesterday evening (Monday 14th). We stayed at Hotel Mont Febe last night, and are now about to leave for the first leg of our journey to Yoko, a remote area north east of here (at least i think so).
Health Teams International has conducted annual medical/dental trips to Cameroon for the past 15 years. Dr. Dan Wiklund, our team leader, specializes in Dermatology, Internal Medicine, and received his diploma of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene at the London school of tropical medicine. This is Dr. Wiklund's 10th trip to Cameroon with HTI. He has served in the remote areas of Mongolia, Tibet, India, and South America to name a few. We have a LOT of seasoned short-term missionaries in our group. One of the family medicine doctors has been on 57 mission trips (he's in his 30's)!! I'm thankful to be working with such a seasoned, God-centered team.
I am greatly looking forward to bringing physical care to people who have no access to it, but more importantly that we will bring spiritual healing through prayer with our patients and sharing with them the hope of the Gospel! Please pray that the God would prepare the hearts of every person we encounter.
We will run a medical/dental clinic in Yoko for 4 days, followed by a clinic in Ntui for about 3 days. We drive to Ntui today, 2 hrs drive on paved roads, followed by another 2 hrs on rough dirt roads. We will stay over night in Ntui, and work on organizing our clinic supplies and bagging pills this evening. We'll hit the road again first thing tomorrow morning. Our drive to Yoko will be 200km of dirt roads! Pray for our safety!
Our clinic schedule will be largely as follows:
0630 AM devotional, testimonies from 2 members each morning
0700 Breakfast
0830 Clinic
1700 Return to Hotel/Motel
1930 Dinner
2030 Evening meeting
We're hitting the road now... will post again probably at the end of this trip w/ my daily updates saved on file, unless i find an internet cafe.
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