Minute for Mission: Medical Benevolence Foundation
The Lord’s Day
Physicians create hearing aids for children at the St. Vincent School in Haiti.
With others I visited the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti-supported St. Anthony’s School for Handicapped Children in Port au Prince. The school doesn’t have the luxury of specialization, and children with all sorts of challenges live and learn and play together.
While we talked with our Haitian hosts in the middle of the courtyard, a soccer game developed around us. The ball was an empty plastic soda bottle. The players were 8- to 12-year-old boys. One was blind, another deaf, another had a straight metal rod leg, and another played with a crutch. The game was very fast, and the competition was fierce. Somehow, they never ran into us. Despite the competition, they helped each other play his best. The boy who was blind was turned toward the bottle. The boy with a metal leg was never bumped. The boy who couldn’t hear was given hand signals. Partnership reigned.
The Medical Benevolence Foundation considers it an honor to partner with the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti and with generous Presbyterians as we support PC(USA) partner churches engaging in medical mission all around the world. Together we serve people who have received the least in our world economy, as we pray that God might give their lives wholeness and hope through the life-giving presence of our Lord Jesus Christ.
—Rev. Dr. Will Browne, executive director, Medical Benevolence Foundation
Gracious God, enable our response to your grace to become grace for others and give us eyes to see your love at work all around us. We ask it in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Jonah 3:1–5, 10
Just as I Am, Without One Plea
PH 370, HB 272
He Leadeth Me: O Blessed Thought!
HB 338
Ps. 62:5–12
Jesus Loves Me!
PH 304, HB 465
1 Cor. 7:29–31
God of Grace and God of Glory
PH 420, HB 358, WB 393
Mark 1:14–20
Jesus Calls Us
HB 269, WB 439
Daily Lectionary
Ps. 67, 150 Ps. 46, 93
Isa. 47:1–15
Heb. 10:19–31; John 5:2–18 |
