When I fly from Addis Ethopia into Nirobia Kenya, We then will fly into Tanzania Kenya. That is where this team of 7 will meet then fly into Sudan. Juli Mcgowan will be one member of this team. Here is some infomation about her in her own words:
In the summer of 2000, I went to Kenya for the first time and served with ELI as a member of a short-term team from Azusa Pacific University. In going, I was unaware that this four-week mission trip would change my life. As a nurse, I helped deliver a baby on the floor of a mud hut. I also washed the open sores of a man dying of AIDS. I experienced brokenness and poverty. At the same time, I saw rich joy and inexpressible faith. I encountered a people and a culture that captured my heart and I knew that I had found a place to serve; but, I had more to learn first. I earned my bachelor’s degree in nursing at Azusa Pacific University and have been working in the infectious disease unit at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for the past two and a half years. After two more summer trips to Kenya, I realized that to truly give quality care, I would need even more education. In September 2002 I went back to school at Cal State Los Angeles to get my Masters in Nursing, with an emphasis in international healthcare, and become a Family Nurse Practitioner. So, this September I will be joining the Empowering Lives International team and returning to Kenya.While in Kenya, I will be working out of a small clinic in the village of Kipkaren, doing community development and health education and caring for the medical needs of the people there. In the midst of the AIDS pandemic, I feel called to educate and to care for the people of Africa where AIDS has ravaged through cities and villages indiscriminately, destroying the physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of life. Once a week I will travel to Ilula, a village in which ELI will be opening an orphanage, where I will be in charge of the health of these children. As God leads, I will also be in the Congo for about a month where I will be doing physical examinations for 277 children at a school in the slums of Bukavu.September 1, 2004 I will be arriving in Kenya and then traveling to Tanzania for Swahili language school until the beginning of October. From there, I will return to Kipkaren to begin working within the clinic. I’m sure the rest of this year will be a season filled with adjustment and transition as I begin to live life within the village and continue to discover the areas and ways in which God is calling me to serve.
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It is remarkable to have people like Juli devoting their carrers to God's mission. This is what I call "Storing Treasures in Heaven" when someone decides to give to God everything she has, everything she is, everything she wants.
Pastor Kevin, you are also a man of God. I cannot wait to hear how God is going to use you and your team. You are a very given man of God, so God will be using you again.
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