New Legs!

About a week ago we went to see the C.U.R.E International and the prosthetics lab associated with it. C.U.R.E. focuses on helping kids with orthopedic conditions. But the prosthetics lab helps people of all ages. We got a tour of the whole facility and an explanation of the process. It was so neat!

At the end of the tour there we witnessed a Somalian man get a brand new prosthetic. He had come in with a makeshift prosthetic of his own that was completely pathetic but quite resourceful all at the same time. He was very happy to have a new one that actually looked like the real deal. Because he was Somalian and didn't speak Kiswahili, the conversation occured mostly in English through an interpreter that he had brought along with him. I feel honored to have been able to listen in on the conversation. Especially as the Kenyan doctor began witnessing to him so naturally. The doctor told him that it is not by his hands alone that he was able to make this leg but that God is the one giving him the ability, and that God made the original, he is just making a meager copycat of it. Jokes also flew around about what this new leg would mean for his many wives. The Somalian said he will have more now and that he wanted to give the doctor another wife. The doctor said he has only one wife and that he doesn't need any more. But he continued to say that if he prays God will reveal to him that it is His will for a man to have only one wife. From what I understand, this is very rare for even a Kenyan Christian to understand, much less a Somalian Muslim.

On Monday morning we will be returning to CURE to visit with kids in the waiting room. In the afternoon we will be going to the local primary school. You can be praying for our interactions to be a blessing to them. I'm very thankful to have a few opportunities like this in our time waiting to go to Kalacha. You can also be praying that the paperwork for baby Ezra (passport, etc) comes through so that we can go to Kalacha.