Medicine and the Kingdom of God

"Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom and healing every disease and sickness."  (Matthew 9:35)

America is currently abuzz with debate and opinions about the new healthcare law.  Medical care is a basic human need.  From birth to our final hour, injury and disease assault us, reducing the quality of life--or snatching it away.  For all the debate, we still have one of the most advanced and accessible healthcare systems in the world.  No one is turned away from an emergency room.  This is America...

Dr Suji (on right) with Patient.

   

Turn now to India.  Along the teeming city streets, children huddle in the alleys. An old woman with a grotesquely broken arm begs at the traffic light.  A man limps by, his swollen left leg huge with parasitic elephantiasis.  In a remote rural village, children lie in the shade of a hut, burning with malarial fever.  A woman screams in childbirth, the baby arriving breech. Who provides their healthcare?  No one.

Medical care must be paid for, in cash, up front.  The poor have barely enough to pay for daily rice and nothing for healthcare.  Rural villagers must walk 30 to 100 miles for a doctor...virtually beyond the edge of their universe.  Frankly, the poor die.  It is their karma, and the upper castes feel no religious or moral obligation to interfere with the "divine order of things."

Please help AIM change this!  Your generosity enabled us to open the Sunshine Medical Clinic. Our hearts are broken when we visit the villages, since so many men, women and little children are afflicted with conditions that are easily treatable with basic medical care--yet they often escalate into life-threatening diseases due to neglect and poverty. 

So, Phase Two of our project will be purchasing a van for a mobile clinic to outlying villages.  The Mobile Clinic will operate on a circuit from Sunshine Clinic, supplied with equipment, medication and vaccines for those who never see a doctor. 

Our hearts are broken when we visit the villages, since so many men, women and little children are

Little Slum Girls

afflicted with conditions that are easily treatable with basic medical care--yet they often escalate into life-threatening diseases due to neglect and poverty.  What a wonderful chance to change lives!  And, to open doors for the Gospel of Jesus Christ!

Whatever you choose to give will go toward these necessities:   A large, sturdy van to house the Clinic and travel to remote villages: $25,000 US.  The medical equipment will be approximately $2000.  Medications, bandages, vaccines, etc will be another $1000.  Each trip will cost $100 more to cover hiring a driver, nurse, petrol, etc. 

Remember, each US dollar goes a long way in India.  This is not only a humanitarian investment, but will reap eternal fruit for the Kingdom of God.  Someone once observed that it was difficult to listen to the Gospel if your stomach is starving; it is also difficult to believe in a loving God if your body is racked with pain, fever and infection with no hope of a cure.

--Alice Sharrock

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O you can send a check to:    AIM, PO Box 1597, Stillwater, OK 74076
Please enclose a note designating the funds for the:  Medical Ministry--Mobile Clinic

Thank you for your prayers that enable us to continue spreading the Good News to the unreached peoples of India. Thank you for your generous gifts that enable us to open doors into their lives and hearts for Jesus Christ.

 

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