Out of this world experience:

 

When things go far above and beyond your expectations!  We ended up taking a red eye bus trip leaving at 10:30 PM Wednesday and arriving in Etoko at 8:00 am.  Etoke is a small village about 30 Km from Mamfe.  We set up shop, prayed, I was the honorary chaplain and began to do surgeries.  During the next four days Dr. Oben, a Plastic surgeon did surgeries on 29 people, 48 different incisions, mostly hernia repair and hydrocele.  I was his assistant in surgery on about 8 surgeries, it was unbelievable, one after another they were prepped, came for surgery then to the makeshift hospital room laying on mattresses they provided, eight deep in both sides of large room.  This outreach was held at the Etoko Medical Center, now going to be called the Etoko Hospital as Dr Oben has a vision to transform it into fully functioning hospital as God Provides.  I saw things that I really didn’t care to see, these people are humble, poor farmers who suffer from large hernias. I provided consultations to about 60 men, women and children, with diagnoses, malaria, filarial, and a host of other problems many of which I had not seen before.  One child needed emergency IV for malaria but by the second day she began to recover. Their families brought in their food  I ate with them, ate there food, yes, Coco yams, Geri, cassava, coconuts, fish and ,any things I was afraid to ask what it was but my stomach survived.  The people were really receptive to the Word of the Lord that I was able to present both morning and nighttime.  They speak, English, Pidgin, and tribal dialect but we all managed and in the end the love we had for each other was truly out of this world.  Aisha means I can relate, I feel your pain and in the end I left with many of them, relatives, children and friends to, affectedly hugging me and making me promise to return, my name there as well as here in Yaoundé is Uncle P.  It was beyond precious.  For a short time we visited Mamfe which is a short distance from the Nigerian border and I was able to climb their famous “hanging bridge. “  Then there was the 8 hour trip back to Yaounde’, we got back at 5 am from the trip which is another story all together.


BY Patrick Gaughan
 

MISSION AKONOLINGA

ABARA Pauline is a young lady 23 years old, Mother of two boys (8 and 4 years) She works in a drinking spot as a cleaner in Akonolinga commonly known as club center. She was affected by poliomyelitis at a tender age and has never had a wheel chair before. WeCCARE Team led by Dr Oben drove on the 31^st December  2013from Yaounde to Akonolinga 90 km away to donate a wheel chair to ABARA Pauline. Arriving at the spot, the place was cleaned and arranged for the ceremony and her family members were present as well as her children and employers. WeCCARE Team was introduced and a power point put projected. A speech was made by Dr Oben and the delegate of social affairs, The chair was then offered to Pauline and Mrs. Oben helped Pauline into it, After the ceremony a little refreshment was shared to the people present and pictures were taken at the end of it all the WeCCARE team Hit the road  Yaounde thanking God for a wonderful opportunity to serve.

ABARA Pauline on her way to work with her 4 year old son

 Pauline weeps as she receives a wheel chair for the first time in her life

PASS ME NOT

I woke up this Sunday morning and thought of the verse that says, behold what manner of love the father hath given unto us, 1 John 3:1.....this would latter turn out to be prophetic!

A team of six volunteers from Weccare Foundation, I was one of them, met at Dr Oben's house at mid-morning to go out witnessing and follow up.  We traveled 66 km to Manyai  a suburb of Matomb.  We were looking for a man seen almost a year earlier by Dr Oben .

(Dr Oben and his wife were traveling from Douala to Yaounde when they spotted a man crawling on his hands because he apparently had no other way to ambulate.  Dr Oben said to his wife that it just wasn't right that they should be riding in a car and this poor soul be moving around in such a manner.  Dr Oben vowed to go back one day and help the handicapped man; this was to be that day!)  

Locating this individual was the first objective as Dr Oben only knew this man’s infirmity but not his name or exact location.  When we arrived in the vicinity of the previous sighting we   decided to ask if anyone knew him or his whereabouts.  We pulled over by a small road side store and described the man to the proprietor, he said not only did he know him but he would take us to his house. After a brief ride to a small, even more, rural home we piled out of the van and met the handicapped man Nka Mathurin and five others.  We shared the Gospel and the love of Jesus with the household.  Four people said they wanted to trust Jesus for salvation.  We then told the 41 year old man who was crippled with Poliomyelitis since childhood that the Weccare Foundation would buy him a wheelchair this week.   He was a reserved individual, probably from the isolation of being trapped by this affliction, but was very happy to receive such a wonderful gift.  We also said we would give follow up material to the four accepting Christ when we returned.  After taking many pictures, shaking lots of hands and receiving many thank you we departed.  I can still remember the last sight of him on his porch, makeshift wooden block hand shoes attached. The next time I see Nka Mathurin he will probably be in heaven, he sure will look different then!

By Patrick Gaughan

 

 

Emmanuel (Watchman)and Aka Mathurin

The WeCCARE Team Evangelistic Outreach and Aka Mathurin's Family