On Thursday, March 11 we went to the Edumfa Spiritual Revival and Healing Camp. The camp is about an hour away from our chalets. We were lead to an open air old fashioned revival where we were sang and prayed over for quite some time (there were about 250-300 people present). Then we listened to the "healing" protocol. Our guide stated that usually most of the patients were seen by one of the country's 5 psychiatrists at a near-by hospital. If the meds/hospital protocols didn't work then often times families would bring their family members here. The families didn't leave their ill members but stayed close to help. The 21 day protocol of the camp was 3 days of NO food or water, followed by 18 days of limited food and water (keep in mind that the average temperature here at least in the month of March is 95 degrees with very high humidity. At first the clients wear leg chains which are anchored to the floor. While the protocol is being enacted, multiple people pray over and for the ill individuals. Because they have no confidentiality or privacy laws, we were allowed to take some pics...I am not sure I will be sharing those however.
Later after we returned, we did some more shopping in the downtown markets, paid our money for our accommodations at the UCC International Center and then went to the Abandze Beach Resort where we had a very nice dinner with our host Janet. All in all it was a very interesting as well as a bit troubling day!
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