“Habibi, Habibi”
The Remember team arrived back in Charleston on Monday night at 11:30pm, after nearly 24 hours of travel. Looking back on the trip to Jordan, it is a joy to see what we were able to accomplish, from operating a clinic, to making new contacts, to fellowshipping with our fellow believers. The trip was a great success—and that is a result of the power of your prayers. In addition to the ministry that we were blessed to do, we wait in eager expectation to see all the blessings that have not yet come to fruition as a result of this trip!
We had three days of medical clinics, and our doctors were able to see around 80 patients, primarily Iraqi refugees with little access to doctors and medications. We packed medications with us, thanks to generous donations made by our sponsors, and those medications were used to meet the needs of those our doctors saw. What was left – thousands of dollars of worth of medications – was donated to local Christian clinics.
But the real ministry we did is not reflected in these numbers, but in the individual lives of those who were blessed.
One elderly lady was so grateful for what we were done for her that she clung to Lori, our nurse who was doing her medical charts, and started crying “Habibi, Habibi,” which translates as “beloved.” The grateful thanks of so many are impossible to duplicate in writing, but it was, and is, touching to see how much of an impact we made on each others lives and what we each can gained from this trip.
The success of this trip was made possible by the prayers of the saints, and by the interworking of the Body of Christ. While in Jordan, we worked with a variety of other ministries, each of which played a different, vital, part in the blessing. I can’t help but be excited when I think of how this working of the Body as a whole will lead to future ministry potential; the Body working to serve the Body – that’s what we are all about.