Posted on 11/04/2006 9:52:13 AM PST by Charles Henrickson
An LCMS World Relief/Human Care medical mercy team recently spent four days in Kenya, and treated nearly 1000 extremely impoverished individuals. The team of two doctors, three nurses, and two lay volunteers made medical assessments, dispensed free medications and changed dressings on injuries. The team saw many cases of malaria, as well as HIV infections and other maladies related to poor sanitation and malnutrition. Patients paid 20 shillings (approx. $0.28 USD) for a doctor visit.
Sally Henrickson, RN, LCSW, who coordinates medical and material goods and medical personnel for LCMS World Relief/Human Care, organized and led this pilot trip to Kenya. Due to the immense need there, more trips are being planned. The goal of these trips is to help our partner church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kenya, increase its capacity to help the needy and share with them the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Participants agree that this trip was the experience of a lifetime.
LCMS World Relief/Human Care also sends medical supplies overseas. Presently, through our partner, Orphan Grain Train, one container of supplies, worth over $200,000, is being sent to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Sudan, to help furnish a hospital in Jubu, and a second is going to Kenya, with materials for clinics in Atemo and a new clinic in the Kibera slums.
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My wife, Sally Henrickson, just spent 16 days in October in Kenya for LCMS World Relief and Human Care, coordinating a medical mercy trip. The team did some fantastic work! If you want to read more about it and see lots of photos, Sally has her own webpages on this . . .
LCMS WR/HC Medical Mercy Kenya trip, October 2006
Click on the photos and read the captions.
Lutheran/LCMS/Henrickson Ping!
HIV/AIDS is a huge problem in Kenya.
Bless you.
To see the rest of the photos, go to the links I posted at #1.
Tell your wife thank you from the bottom of my heart. She will never see the ripple effect from the work she did this side of Glory but she will see it there.
Look in the "To:" box and see if I've listed everyone for a . . . Kenya ping! 
I think that is all of us.
Cool! Great pictures.
Thank you. Mr. CGG and I will be making a donation.
thanks very much for this and thanks so much to Sally for the invaluable work she did there. God bless you both.
Sally Henrickson will be on the "Issues Etc." radio/Internet program today, between 4:30 and 5:00 Central, to talk about her recent medical mercy trip to Kenya for LCMS World Relief.
You can listen live at this link:
http://boss.streamos.com/wmedia-live/kfuo/11444/19_kfuo-kfuo_am_060525.asx
Here is the "Issues Etc." home page at kfuo.org:
http://www.kfuo.org/ie_main.htm
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