"How long has he had bronchitis?", Dr. Jon asked Verča, a young Roma mother of a 3 year old boy. Amazed at his diagnosis from 5 feet away, Verča told of his 5 month long illness. After telling her 1) STOP smoking and 2) He needs medication, Dr. Jon arranged for meds that her personal doctor would not prescribe. Then he asked if she would help him to teach other young mothers about basic healthcare in the community when he comes back. Her answer was an emphatic yes..."because the doctors here don't care about us!".
Dr. Jon then "wowed" the Roma with his testimony of how his teachers told him, a child with native American heritage, that he would never be a doctor. His stories of helping the Roma in Kosovo during the war bonded them even more with him. After meeting with the first Roma student who graduated from the med school at Charles University in Prague, he had many ideas of how to serve the Roma with medicine and "force multiplication" as the army would call it. Developing, Empowering, and Releasing is what ReachGlobal calls it. We speak the same language and are looking forward to Dr. Jon's return visits.
"Coincidentally" (read God led circumstances) I am continuing with the second book course on community health evangelism through ReachGlobal. What will God do in the Roma community? Stay tuned as we follow His leading.
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