The following is from Ted Steinhauer, the Haiti Country Director for Medical Teams International. I think Ted's observation about what he saw recently in their health clinics in the North West of Haiti sums up the heart of what it means to worship the Lord in all things and at all times.

We hear a lot about the importance of worship and rightly so, but I wonder how many of us really understand or have ever experienced worship as depicted below.

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The setting:

Two Medical Teams International cholera centers; one set up at the Centre Medical Beraca in La Pointe, and the other at the NHCM (Northwest Haiti Christian Mission) Bible School in St. Louis du Nord.

The situation:

Swamped by over 150 cholera cases per day (60% children 5 and under – 1% death rate), an exhausted Haitian and NGO nurse and doctor staff work feverishly inserting IVs, IOs, changing solution bags, wiping filth from bodies and comforting grieving families.

Nonstop rain, wet scrubs, muddy shoes coupled with the smell of chlorine, vomit, diarrhea and death adds to the misery as staff scurry back and forth between intensive care and the oral rehydration wards.

The scene:

Oral rehydration ward where patients in various stages of recovery lie on mats attended by nurses. A staff member begins to sing and soon everyone is worshiping. Nurses sing as they work, and patients raise their hands in praise to their God in the midst of the most horribly dehumanizing situation I have ever experienced.

This, my friends, is true worship and I, for one, am humbled!

Ted

Please pray for our friends Ted, his wife Kathy, and the many International and Haitian medical professionals who are working through Medical Teams International to fight Cholera in North West Haiti. If you would like to know more about this important ministry or follow updates from their front lines of treatment, please check out their website at: www.medicalteamsinternational.org.