Dancing With Jesus
by Melanie Hemry
The tropical storm did nothing to cool the remote village in the jungle of Uganda. It just made the muggy heat less tolerable. Mopping her face, 45-year-old Jeanette Wilson looked out over the swollen river, its current turbocharged by all the rain. Although it was too dangerous to cross, desperate fathers lifted their children onto strong shoulders and waded into the rushing water.
Jeanette didn’t blame them for risking their lives and the lives of their children. So far, as many as 10,000 children had died from a measles epidemic. They were losing a whole generation of children because they had no vaccine. As a nurse practitioner, Jeanette had traveled to Uganda as part of a 20-member team to immunize as many children as possible.
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