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Madang or Bust!

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 The time is finally here!! On Monday I am flying to Madang to do medical outreach for the next seven weeks! It has been twenty months since the last medical outreach, so this is a MASSIVE breakthrough! Our medical team has been onboard the ship for the last three weeks, preparing for outreach and helping out on the ship and boosting the community. We’ve had an amazing time getting to know each other, building relationships with locals and crew onboard, and they’ve honestly been such a blessing to me. In early July I was looking at the outreach plans, and they seemed so hopeless. The nation had just instituted a 21-day quarantine, I had no leads, the ship’s surveys were being delayed AGAIN. I was having doubts about whether the outreach would even go ahead, and I was googling flights back to Canada for September; but in one of my quiet times one morning, the Lord whispered “you’re going to do medical outreach this year”. It was all I had to hold onto, and I am just BLOWN AWAY by the Lo