Medical Ministry

In a land where the average healthy life expectancy reaches only 34, complicated and often untreated illnesses fret the african life span. Pervasive illnesses such as HIV, malaria, TB, AIDS, and malnutrition kill many young parents, leaving an overwhelming number of orphans. Many die unnecessarily simply due to lack of proper medical care and wellness programs. Many treatments that are considered common here have been totally unavailable there. Defibrillator's in public places? They don't even have them in their hospital at Livingstone.

Sons of Thunder Medical Ministries has established a group of health-related programs initially based on the farm in Zambia. Currently these programs focus on immunizations for children, a medical facility on the mission farm, emergency transport, and education and training. A greater need exists. A healthy economy can not flourish in a society where the leaders often die at such a young age.
To realize the following objectives, we need your help. With your help, participation, volunteerism, and donations, the following will be possible:
- To relieve unnecessary suffering and death from malaria, TB, AIDS and Malnutrition with early detection and treatment.
- To reach out into the outlying villages providing needed medical care and transport.
- To build, staff and operate a fully modernized 8,000 sq. ft. medical clinic that will grow into a 52,000 sq. ft. modern 150 bed hospital.
Sal and Renee Marini have been commissioned as full-time medical missionaries, called by God to provide, oversee and administrate all programs and medical care. Here are excerpts from a recent letter from them:
Dear Friends and Family,

Today is the start of another month.

October was a very busy month with a lot of things accomplished. We saw 526 patients during the month of October. People are coming from all the surrounding villages. Sal has seen the majority of patients while I have been kept busy finishing the apartment and the clinic facilities.

Conditions are sparse here, we don't have any drawers for clothes, no storage in the bathroom etc. Sal and I have been ordering furniture to be made both for the apartment and the clinic. Yesterday, Terry and Linda in the lorry picked up 2 cabinets for the kitchen along with a table, 2 chairs, a bed and mattress for the clinic.

In the meantime, the two clinic rooms have been cleaned, grouted, and painted. All the medical supply boxes stored around the farm have been gathered together, waiting for me to unload them this week. We have two employees now working at the clinic; one is a receptionist and one a clinical assistant. Both Bertha and Anna speak, read and write English. Anna plans on going to Nursing School next year and is working to save up the money. With the newly established patient flow, Sal has been able to see 20-30 patients a day in about 6 hours.

We have already treated some students for malnutrition and wounds related to malnutrition, so Sal has decided to feed these 70 children in this location as a preventative measure. He has purchased bowls and spoons and is providing a nutritious mealy meal grain mixture referred to as HEPS (High Energy Protein Supplement). He has worked it out with the teachers to be responsible for the feeding and the cleaning up process. The students come every day to the water next to our apartment to clean the bowls…they seem to be enjoying the supplement.

I love you all, but I’m moving on with God…I will not hold onto or look back. I will keep my eyes looking forward toward the prize and will advance His Kingdom in Jesus’ name.

~Sal and Renee Marini

Our Goal: To raise Zambia up to their fullest potential in God and in stewardship of themselves and each other.
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