Death often comes to the rural hospital where Dr. Heidi Haun
practices. But she and husband William have planted their lives in Ghana not
just to bring physical healing, but to testify to Christ’s love and salvation,
all the more pressing when life hangs in the balance.
The Haun Family Story
It was near midnight when IMB missionary Dr. Heidi
Haun had finished up an abdominal surgery and returned home. Her baby, Karen
Jane, and son, Trey, 10, had long been in bed under the watchful eye of her
husband, William.
The Hauns serve in Nalerigu, Ghana, and her patient
was a woman who sells cabbages under a mango tree on market days in town. Heidi
had planned to perform surgery earlier in the day, but the operation was
delayed by an emergency cesarean section. Still, after surgery that night,
Heidi said the woman reached out to grasp her hand and thank her.
“I think that’s the neatest thing about having
patients that live here in town…it leads to opportunities for relationship and
gospel sharing,” Heidi explained. “I look forward to the opportunity to share
Christ with her—more than just a patient-doctor relationship.”
PRAYER POINTS
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PRAY for wisdom and strength for the national
medical staff and administration of the Baptist Medical Centre as they serve an
overwhelming number of patients every day.
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PRAY Heidi and William will manage time wisely
to avoid exhaustion and burnout as they work their time-consuming jobs in
surgery and media.
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
Acts 1:8
