October 14, 2011 by Elizabeth Brill 0 comments

"Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.  They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness."  Lamentations 3:22-23

It has already been a very busy fall at Samaritan Health Center.  We've welcomed new volunteers and new patients, and we continue to move toward the opening of a second clinic location.  We also held our second annual fall fundraising dinner at the American Tobacco Campus in September (check out the pictures on Facebook).  

New people mean new stories.  We've had both patients and volunteers successfully secure employment.  We've gotten to know some of our international patients better.  We have spent time in prayer for very difficult financial and health situations. 

I was reminded this week that God is faithful in crises and in the everyday commitments of life.  He never fails.  We need never doubt His love.  These are truths every one of us desperately needs, and that we want to share at Samaritan Health Center.  May God meet you wherever you are today.

“We do not need the grace of God to stand crises, human nature and pride are sufficient, we can face the strain magnificently; but it does require the supernatural grace of God to live twenty-four hours in every day as a saint, to go through drudgery as a disciple, to live an ordinary, unobserved, ignored existence as a disciple of Jesus. It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God; but we have not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, and this is not learned in five minutes.”
-Oswald Chambers via Os Guinness (The Call)