A Bargain for Missions
For just $800, a West Virginia youth group put more than $20,000 worth of outdated hospital equipment back into service on the mission field. How? By knowing where to shop. Somebody at the Petersburg Presbyterian Church got the bright idea to ask the local county hospital if it had any equipment it would like to get rid of. The teenagers discovered a basement full of everything from traction beds and incubators to surgical lamps and stack ovens. The hospital administrator simply said, "Give us a bid." The excited young people wrote to the Medical Benevolence Foundation, which looked at the list and said all of it was needed somewhere abroad. So the group bid $500 for the whole lot—and got it. It took another $300 to hire a truck and driver to transport the equipment to the foundation's warehouse in Lexington, South Carolina, where repairs and rewiring were done before overseas shipping. "The surprising thing," says Pastor John Earl, "is that many hospitals are apparently like ours, with an accumulation of equipment they'd love to unload. I've been told that in the case of private hospitals, they'll sometimes even give it away if the cause is worthy." The equipment project, which happened two years ago, sparked an ongoing interest in missions. Five of the Petersburg young people went to Haiti last summer to work, and interest in overseas ministry continues high.
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