Choosing Service over Comfort

Let me tell you why Dr. David Haymes and his wife Cherry are HEROES to me...

At a time in this Dallas doctor's life, when he has every well-deserved right to be kicking back and 'enjoying the good life', he and his wife are spending weeks on dusty African roads, going to serve dying and desperate people, in conditions that would discourage even the rosiest of outlooks. 

Dr. David and Cherry Haymes are advocates for folks who suffer health indignities that most westerners will never see...much less understand. 

The Haymes have every right to be sitting on the back of a yacht somewhere in the Bahamas, but instead they are:

• visiting refugee camps in terror-stricken Congo
• carrying help and supplies to orphans of the genecide in Rwanda
• treating Kenyan patients in remote mobile clinics
• bringing life-saving meds to Sr.Freda's Cottage Hospital that would simply not be there if not for the Haymes efforts.

David should be on the back nine at Las Colinas Country Club, and Cherry should be on aisle 12 at Neiman's, but they are in West Pokot and the Massai Mara and Mt. Elgon.
And why do they do this???

Jesus Christ said, "All the commandments can be summed up in two...love the Lord with all our heart, and love your neighbor as yourself."

In doing what David and Cherry do...helping the helpless...they are following the teachings of the GREATEST TEACHER who ever lived.