Medical Outreach - Montpuez

This past weekend I went on an overnight/weekend outreach to Montpuez - it was a joint medical outreach so something totally different from the usual outreaches I've been on!

Montpuez is due west from Pemba, and the road is smooth and tarred all the way - although we went into the bush bush down a dirt road for about an hour to get to the village where we were going to stay the night.

The Holy Given students had to ride on the back of an open camiao - at least it didnt rain!


My car is AMAZING, I love it!!! So handy and practial and useful! It has made my life so much easier in terms of carting sound equipment around and setting up in the villages at night I feel more secure about the equipment not being messed with.

I set the sound desk etc up in the back of my truck, so I have a place to sit during the movie and also I can close the doors to prevent the system disapearing!

This is our "high-tech" setup, it works really well! The Mediaplayer has replaced the DVD player we used to use, and the hard drive based system has been invaluble, worth every cent!

All set for outeach!

Unfortunately it RAINED that night, so we only showed about 1 hour of the film before I decided to pack up - we were all soaked by the time the system was in the car, and the whole team was in bed by 7:30pm! It was the first time that I've been in bed before midnight on an outreach, and sleeping for 10 hours was brilliant!

Tent Land - This village has not church building, but the pastor opened his yard for us to camp in

All the cooking is done over a fire - here they are heating the water for coffee in the morning!


Just look what missions has done! These are my friends Eric the Doctor, and Raphael the Accountant!

Saturday dawned slightly cloudy, but it was not going to rain - there were some patches of blue peeking thru the clouds, and by 7am it was starting to get kinda warm.

The Medical Landrover

The Medical team (headed up by Dr Angie), started setting up the brown tent where they treat and pray for anyone who needs medical attention. The problems they encounter range from asthma and scabies to basic wound care, so they are kept really busy! All the kids in the village are also de-wormed, and they stand fairly patiently in line waiting for their turn. Each kid is also prayed over, so it's an awesome ministry opportunity.

Dr Angie de-worming some kids

In the Medical Tent: This little girl has asthma and her fatehr was told by the witchdoctor that there was nothing anyone could do to help her! (Dr Angie was able to help her of course)

We did some more evangelism in the village while the medical outreach was happening, so the sound system was setup again




It was a good outreach - the 2nd night we were in Montpuez town, and there were a number of hecklers and 3 fights broke out while were preaching, but we showed the Jesus film and even though I was sitting with the sound system, I heard from some of the students that there were a number of healings! So good! :-)