Devotion for today-Romans 7:14-25. My true identity in Christ. Try to be what God intended me to be.
Today we are holding the Health Camp in the second village, Siramalagum (spelling?) and will be there on Friday as well. We have changed our presentation again, and I think it went much, much better this time. We were treated very well, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and everything. The pastor of this church is Rev. S. R. Dhanapal, M. Min. and his assistant pastor is Pastor K. Suresh David, B. Th. The outline of our presentation today was: Hygiene & Health/Clean Water-Dana, Healthy Diet/ Food Groups & Food Safety-me, Alcohol/Drugs/Tobacco-Jim, General Health-Jim. Jim & I then both did blood pressure screenings at the end, on anyone who was >50 years old or had a history of high blood pressure. I would say that ~80% of the ones we checked today had elevated blood pressure levels. I kept repeating, "Watch your salt intake" and "Make sure you are eating plenty of fruits and vegetables." The crowd was very receptive and had several good questions for us. We even were given special ribbons to wear as honored guests.
Pictures below are some traffic pictures and pictures from this health camp. Note family of 4 on 1 motorcycle, a busy intersection (wish I wouldv'e taken a video of this so you could hear all the honking and noise), and a little girl, whose mother sent her up to me to shake my hand and have her picture taken. Adorable little girl, who was quite terrified of me at first.
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