Mossy Foot

Dr. Nathan Barlow took his medical degree along with his wife and four children to Africa in 1945. He treated a large variety of different patients but eventually confronted Mossy Foot Disease and provided treatment for countless outcast and helpless people. Mossy Foot Disease, also called Big Foot's Disease, is contracted by people working barefoot in volcanic soil. People who contract this debilitating disease get swelling, ulcers, and infections in the feet and lower legs. They are shunned by society and treated much like lepers. It is amazing to read about Nathan Barlow's story. Nathan Barlow died at the age of 91, helping the people of Ethiopia and sharing with them the glorious news of Jesus Christ up until the time of his death.
It's never pleasant to read stories and see pictures of suffering people but it made my heart break and I had to share it. Please say a prayer for these people. One of Nathan's daughters, Sharon, continues running the Mossy Foot Project that her dad started. If you want to donate to help these people or read more about it, click here.
I want to give my life away like Nathan Barlow did and use the gifts God has given me not for myself but for others. It is so inspiring to see someone follow the example of Christ by preaching the Gospel and laying his life down for others.

"But if when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God. For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps."
1 Peter 2:20-21