For the Love of People, Jesus, and Nursing: Kenya 2014

I just finished packing and can't quite wrap my little mind around the fact that I leave in just a day and a half. Once again to fly across the vast ocean to a land full of beautiful, vibrant, and loved people. They are SO loved. By Jesus and me. I am so excited to get to opportunity to love the people of Kenya through the healing power of Jesus and the medical abilities He has given me the amazing opportunity to learn these past four years of schooling. Surreal is just begins to explain how this feels right now. We got a taste of the power of collaboration today as the team gathered and packed 400 pounds of medical supplies from donations we've been gathering only in the last week and a half. Pictured with the whole team below. Pretty amazing! I want to thank all of you who played a part in that! You are a part of the team. For those of you who are praying for us, you also a part of the team.

There are 8 of us going to Kenya, 6 students and 2 faculty members. As a snap shot of our month, we'll be working in hospitals three days a week and doing health education in high schools once a week on topics like safe sex, STD prevention, HIV/AIDS, malaria, and basic hygiene and infection prevention. In addition, we'll be putting on a 3 day medical camp 8 hours southeast of Nairobi in a rural village area where we anticipate seeing about 1000 patients a day. We'll also be serving at primary and pre-schools in the Kibara and Dagorreti slums doing medial screenings on the children and serving meals and also spending a day at a juvenile detention center doing medical screening on the 500 youth there and have a time of sharing stories and speaking into their lives.

The trip will be one full of new experiences and relationships and I am so excited to see and learn from the beautiful people of Kenya and see the Lord work through our team! This opportunity is one in a lifetime and I am so blessed to be attending the only school in the US that requires their nursing students to spend a month serving and nursing cross-culturally like this. The training is invaluable and I know it is just the beginning of a lifelong love for nursing and serving and loving people from all Nations!