Impossible

Hello from Calapan, Oriental Mindoro, Philippines!

Long time no blog! I came back to my folk's home in California for sweet while, but now that I am back in the Philippines with just a moment of computer time, I thought I would send out a quick update. I am sorry I have not figured out to upload pictures on this little netbook yet, but I will try next time!

My sister found a great quote from St Francis of Assisi
"Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly, you are doing the impossible."

Suddenly... I am.

The Philippines, and the necessity of good safe kind birth care for the women and children here, called me back. God called, and then made it possible for me to be here in the new birth center for two months while the supervising midwife is away back in Canada giving birth to her own child and attending to another of her children needing surgery.
And while I am here, trust me, I am doing what i thought Impossible

I am doing the clinical portion of my midwifery studies while working here too. A student again, while I am also representing our Mercy in Action ministry. I've delivered over a dozen babies these two weeks, been on countless postpartum visits to homes here in the city and miles away in the surrounding farmlands. I have interviewed women before birth and counselled them on good prenatal care, and then attended them at birth and afterbirth. I've cried with a woman after her very premature baby only lived 4 hours after I put it into her arms--the ministry of presence that I pray sent her the comfort of the Holy Spirit. I attended the wake. I have been visiting her everyday,checking the medical needs of her body and praying for her heart--praying with her husband and mother in law too. Between births and emergency transports to the provincial hospital. Sleep IS overrated!

Somehow, Ihave been the one chosen to do these things, alongside my sister Vicki, her family, and the few who come alongside us. The harvest is great...the workers are few. I know that the Lord's hand and the Lord's timing is in this.

So at this season of my life, I am starting a new career. I am a field worker and a Midwife.

Necessary, and actually, not impossible at all.

I pray this finds you, my friends, pursuing that which is called out in you. I am thankful for your thoughts and prayers, and for just any amount that you can send to Mercy In Action this year to make a little life here brighter and lighter for our moms and babies.

Gratefully,
Terri

Website: Mercy In Action

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www.mercyinaction.org