My ears perked up when nurse Denise Maxwell, Luke Society ministry director in Monrovia, Liberia said that there had been a number of triplet births over the past few years. My wife and I know some of the joys and challenges of having triplets as ours are now 12 years old. Yet, what we experienced was nothing like the stories Denise was telling.

Let me offer an invitation to think about things differently while you pray this month. Try to look at things from the perspective of a patient seeking help from a Luke Society medical clinic. Put yourself in their shoes. Use your senses and enter into their story.

One of the great encouragements we have working in the Luke Society central office in Sioux Falls, SD, happens every day when the doorbell rings and a U.S. postal worker climbs our steps with an arm full of mail.

Our goal in writing the GAP newsletter each month is to help you, our faithful prayer partners, focus on particular requests from Luke Society ministry directors. This month we would like to say thank you on behalf of all of the ministry directors.