A Conversation Overheard

Mongolia – a healthcare worker

“In my workplace, I don’t have the ‘freedom’ to start conversations about my faith. But I have the freedom to care for people with love (Galatians 5:23-24). As I was caring for a patient who was [slowly] dying, his wife started to talk with me, asking what my plans were for an upcoming public holiday. I mentioned that I was going to visit an older lady from my church. She asked me if I went to a Christian church. When I responded that I did, she told me she was a Christian, but that she was grieved because her husband wasn’t a Christian.

I [talked about] what Jesus did and emphasized that Jesus…offers salvation as a gift, giving each person the free choice to believe or not to believe; it isn’t something that is forced. As I finished her husband motioned with his arm and whispered, “I believe”.

Thus, a conversation that started out about an upcoming holiday, turned out to be eternally life-changing for a man in his last days.

Taking the Saline Process helped me to recognize...opportunities, including conversations about everyday things, and to be sensitive and respectful whenever I am interacting with patients and their families or with my colleagues.”