There it was in stark black and white — a headline in The Wall Street Journal back on April 27. When I read it, I felt a strange mixture of sadness, anger, and holy urgency.
Bob, outreach partner and photographer, had a story to tell us today. As he walked to the lunch tent, two police officers watching over the clinic called to him. He turned and said “Good morning” to them in their Shona language. They joked together for a moment, the police officers laughing.
It seems they’re having trouble with cell service there in Gutu. Not many emails and photos have come through, but we did get this beautiful panoramic shot of the Thursday morning worship gathering with the clinic compound in the background.
The Gutu outreach team arrived safely in country and are, just this Tuesday evening (for us), beginning their third full clinic day on Wednesday. Internet reception has prevented us from receiving many updates, but here’s a little news from the field.
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In past issues of this update, I have warned about Turkey’s slow but steady drift away from secular government and toward Islamic fundamentalism under the increasingly authoritarian rule of President Recep Erdoğan.
British Prime Minister David Cameron resigned this week in the wake of his failed efforts to keep the United Kingdom in the European Union. Replacing Cameron as the head of the Tory Party is 59-year-old Theresa May.
It was in Gutu, Zimbabwe that we hit an amazing milestone when we treated our 250,000th medical outreach patient back in 2014. We are headed there again next week to begin our third Gutu outreach, and we are so grateful to have your prayers covering us.
