Nurses Do God's Work in a Remote Land

The report recently came into Christian Reformed World Missions from a nurse at work in the remote, mountainous country of Nepal, informing CRWM  of how one of them had been called to travel many miles from their clinic to work with a man who had serious kidney problems.

"The man was weak and depressed and had been told he needed an operation," writes the nurse.

Arriving at the man's home, the nurse first asked that some idols be removed and then, after giving the sick man a simple medicine for pain, read to the man and his family from the Bible and also continued to pray with them.

"The man returned to the hospital, but was found to no longer have health problems," reports the nurse.

The whole family now often attends church and has requested to be baptized, "saying that God has shown them his love through the ordeal. Praise God for new believers."

There are four nurses working under the auspices of the Mizoram Presbyterian Church in India in partnership with CRWM.

Charged with the mission of sharing health knowledge and treatments and the Good News, these nurses also held health clinics last year in a handful of villages, distributing tracts about God as they taught villagers about personal hygiene.

The nurses write that they also held a Gospel campaign, using Bible tracts and a film to teach villagers about God’s love and redemptive power.

They also held a youth conference last year and report that "our clinical ministry is going well by the grace of God."

They sign off, writing that they attribute the success of their work in a very remote and difficult place "to the glory of God."