Belief in action
Serving communities
While little children go hungry
Lisa from Felixstowe trained as a children's nurse and Chikankata Salvation Army hospital seemed to present the perfect opportunity for her to put her new skills and belief into action. The hospital is thirty one miles from the nearest town in rural Zambia and serves a catchment population of ninety thousand people living in the surrounding area.
To the people she met, death is a daily occurrence and it was so very sad to witness. She would console herself with the knowledge that each child had received all that was available and the nurses and doctors had fought for them, doing all that could be done.
Global poverty is a massive issue, but Jesus taught about the importance of what we do for individuals, one at a time. I am reminded of a powerful speech by William Booth and it is fitting to remember Africa with his words in mind: While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight; while little children go hungry, as they do now, I'll fight. I'll fight to the very end!
