What an
exciting time
Forty children recently received life-changing
surgeries for crippling deformities or burns at the Arusha Lutheran Medical Centre
in Tanzania — and that was just one week! The ability to perform that many
operations is just one of the benefits of the expanded training and program
development at the center.
Your contributions allow ELCA missionaries Dr. Mark and Linda Jacobson
to be a part of this important growth. “What an exciting time of great
thanksgiving this is for our ministries in Tanzania,” they say.
“Our training efforts to address the huge shortfall of health care
professionals have leaped ahead. In the last few months we have been registered
as a training center and our assistant medical officer training program has
been accredited.” Also, they add, “We have taken the final steps toward opening
our own nursing college in February 2013!”
The center has also become an international training center for African
surgeons to study laparoscopic surgery and join the global movement to this
video surgical care.
“These are some of the programs and ministries that
you have been supporting so generously. We have great opportunities to serve
and to share together in these ministries and outreach,” Mark and Linda say.
Your gifts are helping to make a world of a difference in God’s global
mission! Thank you!!
Over 240
missionaries
serve in over 50 countries.
To
find out more about how to directly support a missionary either personally or
through adoption by your congregation, visit: www.ELCA.org/missionarysponsorship
We cannot be quiet about what we have seen and heard! Acts 4:20
Christine Donahue
TLGCS Mission Interpreter Coordinator
Send me your congregation’s God Stories! cedonahue@gmail.com
