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JOURNEY An update from Phil & Merilee Henderson with MAF in Chad Thank you for your partnership in the ministry we are involved in with MAF in Chad. As you read through these snapshot stories, know that you’ve had a part in each one - by enabling us to be here as we aid and empower the current work being done through the use of the aircraft.
Supplies Drying Up
Fall 2014
getting desperate in Ati as J was keeping me updated on their supply levels. They were down to their last bag of IV fluid and were completely out of children’s meds – they were breaking adult pills into halves and quarters for the kids in order to keep going. Add to this that on this next flight we
Earlier this year, the On the edge of the desert, in the middle of young man on the left, Chad, lies a hot and dusty town called Ati, where Hassan, happened to be a decade ago an American doctor from Texas in the wrong place at started a clinic to offer healthcare where there the wrong time when a was previously none. The clinic is still running – fight broke out in his now with a different doctor and village - tragically, he his family. We all got to know “they were breaking ended up paralyzed each other over the last year adult pills into halves and from the sternum down. while they were learning Arabic quarters for the kids” My friend J visits Hassan in N’Djaména. Now, J & J as I’ll two times a week to were scheduled to call them, are living there and it is my joy to change his bedsore bring the founding keep the clinic supplied with medicine through bandages and just be a regular MAF flights. Recently we had a situation doctor and his family friend to him. It was a out for a ten day where some governmental paperwork had us highlight for me to be working visit and unexpectedly grounded. The situation was able to go with J on one reunion with their of his recent trips to visit Chadian friends and encourage Hassan. from long ago. Their window of time in the country was limited and after having to postpone the flight by one day, they were now considering going by road. It came down to prayer and God’s timing that, just as the medical team was loaded for the day-long road trip, our own paperwork came through. In the end I was able to fly the team and the meds out to Ati. All were well received and a huge encouragement to the whole clinic staff. Unloading medical supplies in Ati MAF Canada
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