May 25, 2024 – It happened around 7 p.m.
Yesmi is born in the Andean town of Huánuco. Her life is not easy because her parents split up. She is still a toddler when her mother moves to Lima with her. This move is an additional stress factor. But the young girl finds support and guidance in a Protestant church community. She spends a large part of her free time in this church for almost 15 years and learns to trust God more and more.
Sometime in 2011, she sees a report on television about Diospi Suyana. Yesmi is blown away. The TV report is a strong impulse for her to start studying medicine after school. For seven years she is trained as a doctor at the elite Cayetano Heredia University. The Peruvian has now gained self-confidence and is setting her sights high. In 2021, she beginns a distance learning course in public health at the University of Edinburgh. While she completes the rigorous program in the evenings, she is also doing her mandatory country year.
In 2024, the Peruvian is in the United Kingdom. She is working hard for an exam that will revalidate her Peruvian education in the UK. But everything is delayed and in April 2024 Yesmi is looking for work. Yesmi sends an email to the contact address of Diospi Suyana. Memories of that report 13 years earlier come flooding back. Unfortunately Yesmi receives no reply. What am I supposed to do?
In May she is living in Edinburgh with a nurse as a lodger. Yesmi is completely at a loss and increasingly depressed.
The uncertainty gnaws at her. Her future is full of questions. On May 25, she radically places her fate in God’s hands.
She prays and sings. “God, I want to do your will, but show me the way!” After three hours (!) she is filled with total peace. Yesmi senses that God has taken the helm. Five minutes later, she receives an audio message from Peru via WhatsApp. Dr. Martina John, founder of Diospi Suyana, has found her previous request on the computer and sends an encouraging message.
Yesmi is crying. She is completely overwhelmed. God has actually heard her. She feels like so many people who are blown away by the real action of God. On June 18, the missionary doctor conducted a detailed telephone interview with Yesni. That same evening she received a commitment.
She has been working in the Diospi Suyana team since July 31st. An answer to prayer for Yesni Arcelia and also for us! Because we are desperately looking for medical colleagues who are committed to the missionary hospital as an expression of their faith. Yesmi says: “What happened to me that evening was downright crazy. Three hours of prayer time? An inner peace and a completely unexpected sign of life from Dr. Martina John!”
An atheist would say: “Coincidence!” – We Christians, on the other hand, thank God for his guidance in our lives.
/KDJ
