My Feet Hurt – Part 1

As the orphan ministry team of DC and Pam Lundy, Kimberly DeVries, and Trokon Dennis arrived at Mother Whleh’s orphanage, the children excitedly ran with bare feet out to greet them. The team began a day of ministry to the orphans—many of whom lost their parents during the last war. They were there to provide medical exams, medicine, and ministry through songs, stories and crafts. Pam, a pediatric nurse practitioner from Oregon, began to examine the children. Many of the children had malaria and intestinal parasites for which they were treated. Pam soon began to notice that one third of the children had “hamburger feet.” Pam has been on several short term medical ministry teams with ANM. She described the feet of the children as “the worst I have ever seen and I have seen a lot of badly infected feet.” One of the little children as he came to be examined said “my feet hurt!” Pam was able to clean and provide medicine for the many feet that were infected from parasites, eating away at their skin.