Home Based Care Visits

This morning, our whole team went the Zenzele and went with their caregivers to visit people who were too sick to get out to be taken care of. My group visited six different shacks and we were out for around three hours. We tagged along with the caregivers, so we would wait while they gave the patients food and medicine. After that, we prayed over them. It was a great thing for us to go and do this as a team. If home based care visits don't remind us why we're doing what we're doing, then I don't know what would. We prayed for a ten year old boy with cerebral palsey, a woman paralyzed from the waist down, a man recovering from a stroke, a woman with swelling in her entire body, a guy with an STD that was causing him pain and swelling. Also, because people don't want to speak of HIV, we aren't sure who was positive and who wasn't. However, it's probably safe to assume that at least three or four of the people we visited were suffering from full-blown AIDS. It was an emotionally draining morning, but it was a necessary reminder of the urgency of the ministry we're doing.