Imagine lying on a stone floor in a cardboard shack battling the last stages of AIDS with nobody to help you...
The EMM is headed up by Dr. Pavel from the Miles Jesu Brno community, who left his full-time work at the hospital to dedicate himself to this project, and by pharmicist Eric from the Miles Jesu Chicago community. Both Dr. Pavel and Eric experienced a profound conversion during their medical studies and joined Miles Jesu at the beginning of their respective medical careers.
Dr. Pavel grew up in communist Czech Republic. He experienced a conversion during his medical studies and while working with poor children as a medical volunteer in the former Soviet Ukraine. He has voluntarily switched the direction of his medical career from working full time as an Internist in a hospital to working full time for the Epiphany Medical Missions, as a mission doctor. This team of medical professionals is establishing health care clinics, hospitals, and education programs for the poor and needy around the world. This is some of Dr. Pavel's testimony:
Recently some team members and I went through the slums in Bombay, India, throughout which the open trenches ran with a filthy black sewage thick with rubbish and waste. The foul odor was constant and nauseating. As we walked through the slums I thought to myself, "How could people survive in these conditions." I was truly amazed. Rosie, one of our social workers, took us to see a young woman that she had been caring for. She was in the last stages of AIDS. When we arrived to her dark, old shack we entered and found her lying on the stone paved floor. It was obvious that she was in extreme pain. She couldn't eat anything, nor could she pass any waste. We knelt down by her side and gently examined her. The only thing we could do was to treat her pain. After some time when the medicine took effect she looked at me with grateful eyes. That look penetrated my soul and still remains there. We are currently developing and implementing a nutrition and pain management program that is bringing hope and relief to many AIDS patients in Bombay.
EMM is also making health care a reality in places like Ukraine. We are building a health care center there, but we need help with the costs. The price is cheap when considering how many people will know that they can get quality care from EMM no matter how poor they are.
How can you help EMM?
- Make a financial contribution to EMM. Payable to Epiphany Medical Missions
- Ask doctors, hospitals, and anyone else to donate equipment, medical supplies, medicine, etc.
- Donate your time to help with various office work, communications, correspondence, etc.
- Sponsor the travel costs for volunteers from poorer countries to go on missions.
Would you consider making a donation to support the Epiphany Medical Missions? Donate online or call us at 1-800-654-7944.
