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Changing Lives Together’s goal is that through serving people, and ministering to their material and physical needs, the Lord’s Love will be demonstrated to these people in a tangible way opening the door for the gospel.
In September the Changing Lives Together Ghana team was introduced to a family who had a 1-year old son Jibrilu, who was experiencing a medical crisis. His parents, who are very poor street vendors, didn’t have the financial means to fund transportation to the distant Hospital, cover room and board costs, and the cost of the surgery. He was diagnosed with a large Patent Ductus Ateriosus (PDA), a heart defect caused by problems during the development states of the heart, and this had occurred since birth.
The only available solution was for CLT to work with another mission’s organization to help fully fund the $3,000 corrective heart surgery as well as cover other costs such as transportation for Jibrilu and his mother. The surgery was very successful and Jibrilu’s recovery has been excellent! Jibrilu’s parents were Muslims and through this initiative, Jibrilu’s parents especially his mother; Miss Jamila are opening their hearts to the good news about Jesus which was shared with them.
Over the past two years, CLT has been working on a Cardiovascular Heart Disease (CHD) Clinic project. As part of this project, CLT has partnered with the Wenchi Hospital (WMH) in Wenchi, Ghana, to set up the first phase of the CHD Clinic. CLT has renovated three (3) rooms, on the WMH campus, to set up the CHD clinic. The WMH is located in the northern half of Ghana. This first phase of the project will be an Out-Patient CHD Diagnostic and Treatment Clinic that will specialize in providing health care to people with CHD related diseases. Currently a full service CHD facility does not exist in the northern half of the country, so that will be the second phase.
This CHD clinic, will be a facility that many in these communities who have heart disease will come to for treatment. For cases that will be treated here, this will give us an opportunity to establish long term relationships with these patients, as they will be returning for their routinely scheduled medical treatments/ evaluation. CLT team members will meet with patients, pray with them, share the gospel with them and encourage those who open their hearts to Jesus, to get plugged in to a local church. The chaplain will be connected to a network of local pastors and depending on where the patient lives, will recommend to them, a church that is closer to their location of residence. We feel there is a great opportunity for us given that patients will be returning for their recurring evaluation (for those that need that), provides opportunities for follow up and the path to continue sharing the message of Christ with them.
Phase one of this project will be to remodel 3 rooms in partnership Partnership with the Wenchi Hospital, to be a Cardiac Care Unit. The funds will finish the remodel, and then supply the equipment and supplies so that Changing Lives Together can treat an un-served population of children and Adults, opening the door for the gospel.
Funding Goal $40,000
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