It’s been a fun month to be a Charis midwifery student!  First, I had the great joy of hosting Holly Findley, who I met last year at the Charis Teaching Birth workshop in Florida.  Holly is a missionary midwife in South Sudan and she came to stay with us for a couple days during her mandatory break from the very challenging work she is doing there.  It was such a blessing to get to spoil her, share stories, and chat about all things birthy….and not(=

Also, thanks to the oversight of Lucy, I am serving my very first private mamas.  It’s been so much fun to get to be on this journey with them and to see them through their entire pregnancies from the very beginning.  It’s quite a contrast to just showing up at the TBA’s house during the labor of a woman I’ve never met before!  Lucy and I did one of the private client’s prenatal visits together this month and it was such a special, blessed time.  I am so thankful and honored to be working and serve with Lucy and so very excited for many exciting things we have planned to do together in the very near future.

Indeed, a whole new world of serving mamas and their families is opening up to me, in large part thanks to Lucy.  I’m so thankful I serve a God who makes my path straight.

My mentor, Lucy Muchiri, is a Registered Nurse Midwife here in Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya.  Enjoy reading more about her in the  August 2013 Charis newsletter.

 Martin, Amariah, Ezriel, Jannekah and Adali Lynn Guya