Since this is a christian-run hospital, many workers are christian and there is an excellent pastoral / chaplaincy staff who are always available. We just write a consult on the chart and they take care of it. Before coming here, I had never seen an order that read "chaplain to pray with patient and share Christ." I actually had a pretty amazing experience recently when Dr. Hewitt shared Christ with a patient who was found to have cancer. Essentially all cancer here is fatal because it is usually found in advanced stages and there's not much that can be done. This particular patient did not speak the local Mampruli language but one of another area tribe. So the doctor spoke English to the chaplain who spoke Mampruli to another interpreter who spoke to the patient in his heart language. Then whenever the patient would say something it would go the reverse in the chain of translation. But neither God nor His message of the gospel of Jesus is hindered by language barriers. The man prayed to receive Christ that very moment!
Thank you, God, that even though it was YOU who confused the languages of the people at the Tower of Babel and then scattered the people abroad, it is also YOU who works through ALL languages to bring salvation to mankind.
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