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| MISSION PROJECT 2006
Thank you for once again supporting me to help the Salvation Army in Zimbabwe in the work they do in providing education for the children in their care, and the work carried on at Howard Hospital in an effort to relieve the suffering of the terrible disease of Aids. Research continues in an effort to discover a possible solution for the 90% of patients suffering from the disease. The government supply support for approximately 20% of the total cost. Our donations along with others worldwide make up the difference.) In addition to 100 beds set aside for treatment many outreach clinics are continuing to educate the people on how to bring this terrible disease under control. Money and medical items have also been sent to Athol Evans Hospital. A clinic has been started to which local Africans can attend for treatment. They cannot afford to go to government hospitals as the cost of treatment and medicines are more than double that asked by the Salvation Army where treatment is given even when they cannot pay. We have raised £2,500 in 2006 which brings the total sent to Zimbabwe in the last 28 years to £45,600. Our target is £50,000 by June 2008 when we will have as our special guest General Shaw Clifton. The General was a missionary in Zimbabwe when Sharon was killed in 1978. William Swindells |
Income carried forward £-343.00 Corps monthly Donations £623.00 Special Efforts £2522.95 Expenditure Howard Hospital £1500.00 Education Fund £1000.00 TOTAL £2500.00 Balance carried forward to
August 2007Mission Project Target Reached!
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TOTAL £2802.95
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| This Zimbabwean bulletin may read like a speeding bullet. It will be a little shorter than our usual letter, and more focused on our upcoming travel as the Thistle tribe hastily prepares to return to Canada. We may be speeding in your direction. If Alexander is driving please switch off your photo radar. We’ll be landing in Toronto on the 25th of May and proceeding to Winnipeg on the 27th. After June 19th we’’ll be in Toronto until our return to Howard on the 30th, interrupted by an obstetrics conference in Ottawa. We look forward to seeing some of you in Manitoba or Ontario. But our stay is unusually brief, unfortunately too short to personally see all of our friends and family across Canada and beyond. The chief reason for our visit is to study at the Salvation Army College for Officer Training followed by commissioning as Salvation Army officers. There are three courses in three weeks in Winnipeg! sprinkled with Celebration 125, an occasion that commemorates the 125th anniversary of the Army in Canada. It will be a busy time of books, and blessings. For Pedrinah and Paul who’ve been serving full time at Howard for over a decade, officership is a high mark in our careers, a confirmation of our calling to fulltime Christian ministry. Some things will remain the same: we are appointed to Howard Hospital. Some things will change. Officially, we’ll be called captains. At Howard we’re still Baba waJames and Amai waAlexander. We’ve been called many other things in our lifetime. You can call us anything, but don’t call us too late for breakfast! The Howard we’re leaving behind at the end of May is in a healthier state, a shining example of local and international cooperation in a landscape of suffering and sorrow. Yes, HIV continues to rear its ugly head; economic indicators may be worse since the start of the year, and living conditions continue to decline. But our friends have rallied behind the cause to provide a quality standard of health care to the underprivileged in this corner of Zimbabwe. In 2007, we’ve received medicines from Holland and Norway, a container of groceries from Canadian Food for Children, and another container of hospital supplies from the Nazarene Compassionate Resource Warehouse. As we write, two more containers of medical supplies and equipment are en route overland from Mozambique thanks to the combined efforts of Trillium, Ve’ahavta, Hope International and Rotary Clubs in Ontario. Our primary and secondary schools have been inspired by exchanges with schools in Toronto and Peterborough respectively. Our community care ministries such as Home Base Care and AIDS education remain strong thanks to a motley crew of caring individuals and groups. We’re always afraid of leaving out someone when we begin our vote of thanks. Please forgive us. For of equal importance are the dollars and cents of understanding people, ie, the smaller gifts that we glue together in respond to the emergencies and pressing needs each day in the hospital and community. And we’ve forgotten to mention our local chief and village headmen who have been collecting grain from the recent harvest to feed our patients in hospital. Maita basa! You have all done work! |
Pedrinah and I are blessed by the interest and intercessions of folk for Howard Hospital. Some of you are able to visit us at Howard, re-directing your flights from Florida and Mexico to Harare, in order to spend your vacation time at Howard. Your volunteer work fills in the gaps in the provision of services at the hospital, school and community, beside your efforts in our home at subduing our over-enthusiastic boys! As such, Howard can move from strength to strength, but only within the will of God for our hospital, community and nation.
Please continue your assistance in praying for:
Please drop us a note when you are able. Our e-mail address will remain the same while on leave. Our telephone numbers in Canada are pasted below. We look forward to hearing from you. God bless you. Paul, Pedrinah The Salvation Army Howard Hospital Toronto 1-416-751-1772 Winnipeg 1-204-924-5606 “If you enjoy what you do, you'll never work another day in your life.” -- Confucius |
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