OMS Outreach Sep - Dec 2015 | Page 26

Loving in Truth and Deed By Beth Jordal, Communications Department, One Mission Society Prudence and Pradel “I don’t know how she does it,” I thought, while watching Prudence welcome another patient with an extended hand and a kind “Bon jou.” Prudence works as the head nurse at Bethesda Medical Clinic in CapHaitien, Haiti, a ministry of One Mission Society. However, on this day, what should have been a day off, Prudence was leading a mobile medical clinic hosted by the church her husband, Pradel, pastors. The clinic had been open for several hours, but Prudence offered compassion, warmly wrapped in kindness, to every patient. She had a peace about her, fitting the description of the peace that surpasses all understanding found in Philippians 4:7. The peace of God seemingly guarded her heart and mind, so that she could be Christlike while greeting and treating the steady line of patients. As I observed her, I never saw her lose her composure, roll her eyes, raise her voice, or show the least bit of irritation. Nothing seemed to faze her— not the heat, the crude medical set-up, or the continual interruptions. “God must be pleased with Prudence,” I wrote in my journal after the clinic, “because she is doing what Scripture exhorts us to do in 1 John 3:18 … to love not with just words, but with truth and deed.” Prudence included me in \