These pictures are of the elderly and mentally challenged on the northern part of the island at the Infermary. The man holding the bowl is blind but recites the 23rd Psalm with clarity and purity like I've never heard before. None of them have any family and live on rice and beans so we bring them juice and fresh fruit when we can. When they die, they just bury them out back on the acreage as there is nobody to give them a funeral. We also read the bible with them and they love to sing the old hymns. There are approximately 30 women and 30 men and almost all of them love the Lord and rejoice in Him daily. Their beds are lined up along the wall like an orphanage only these are adults. They always tell us how great God is. The lady with her arm around Chelsey, my daughter, always sings, "How Great Thou Art" and when we finish she says, "Now, sing it again!" She has no teeth but sings so beautifully I believe her praise and worship is similar to what we will hear in heaven.
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