A change of venue

One thing we at ChildReach Ministries always try to impress upon our trip participants is to be flexible. We set up an itinerary but are subject to what God wants to do, when God wants to do it. Well, I recently got a taste of my own medicine.

I wrote awhile back about a group of nursing students I am taking to Ecuador on a mission trip to do cross cultural clinicals. Only I'm not taking them to Ecuador. After over two months of trying to set this up to no avail we decided to give Peru a try. Within a week we have what looks like an incredible trip shaping up. We will work out of the hospital in Chilca and set up neighborhood pediatric clinics to distribute medicine and work with kids.

Ashley, one of the Malone nursing students going on this trip and my new friend becoming, told a pretty cool story last night as we were leaving our meeting about Peru. She was in a store hoping to buy a video camera for the mission trip. She got into a conversation with the salesperson about why she wanted one and another patron overheard them. This guy comes over and tells Ashley he overheard her talking and tells her he is a doctor who just moved to the area from Wisconsin; he tells her he thinks what she is doing (a nursing mission trip) is great.

He buys Ashley a $300.00 video camera right on the spot!

So God has already shown up on the trip in a big way and we haven't even left yet. He completley changed our venue from Ecuador to Peru and was certainly involved in a video camera transaction. And we are still 3-1/2 weeks away from departure.

I can't wait to get there and see what God does through, and to, these 10 students.