part of the plan
june 5, 2020
as a doctor at sumner regional medical center, dr. james parnell knows the importance of being prepared. as a lipscomb mission team leader, he has witnessed how god moves beyond our plans.
"god works in crazy ways. i’ve been going to baja for the last 20 years and love the people down there very much. a couple of years ago, i had requested n95 masks from healing hands international for our lipscomb baja (med) spring break trip that i’ve led for the past five years. we are in the process of building a clinic with baja missions in the small town where we go, el zorrillo, that we hope will be ready in fall. ultimately, we needed n95 masks for the times when we see patients with possible or diagnosed tuberculosis during our medical clinic or home visits. we really didn’t need many, but we were surprised with a large donation of over 100 that we stored with our other medications and supplies in the baja missions storage area.
when covid-19 began to ravage our country as well as mexico, i communicated with the baja missions field director that we likely had some ppe that would be helpful to local providers both with the baja missions clinic and other providers connected with the city of children and local churches. we were able to donate many boxes of gloves, n95 masks, surgical masks and other ppe that we had in storage. these were distributed among clinical providers who could put them to good use. when i and my team brought in over 100 donated n95 masks, i had no idea why we were bringing so many at the time. clearly, god had a bigger plan he was preparing for and i’m glad we got to be a part of it." james parnell, baja (med) team leader
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