Christian Inpatient Program For DID
We
returned to the capital city, where we continued to attend the
Methodist
church. The sermons were as before but the simultaneous translation
into English had issues. And
while the church members were polite, none of them ever invited us
over. The language barrier was a major factor but the Koreans also seemed insular and
to want to hang out among themselves. What we needed was a church with sermons like
this one but in English, but there wasn't one in this city.
This city and country also held no future for us. There was too much violence, too much risk of Kristin getting raped, and while its rampant worship of the serpent and demons made the locals pay less attention to the noise of demons being cast out, it was also just too spiritually unclean and oppressive for Kristin. And despite swarming with missionaries, most of the local 'converts' were 'rice Christians,' who called themselves Christians to get food, money and other materialistic assistance from the missionaries.
And while finding a Christian lady or family to house Kristin continued to be our immediate priority, I also realized that she really needed to be ministered by a team of at least four people: (1) someone gifted to minister to her spiritually and cast demons out of her; (2) a Christian mental health specialist who will use Biblical methods to help her heal from dissociative identity disorder; (3) a doctor to treat her many physical ailments and strengthen her immune system; and (4) someone to work full time to provide for her.
I found online a Christian inpatient program for dissociative identity disorder in the US that provides the first three of these four elements, contacted them, and was told that it costs $12,000 per month, which would be $144,000 for a year. When I explained that Kristin and I are unsupported vocational missionaries who have nowhere near that kind of money, and asked for a discount, they declined.
When an American soldier is wounded in battle, he is evacuated and receives top notch medical care for free. But when an American missionary is wounded and evacuated from the mission field, she needs to come up with $12,000 per month to be treated? How many missionaries have that kind of money lying around? Neither Kristin nor I have ever asked for money to serve as God has called us to serve. If the Christian inpatient program for dissociative identity disorder has been called to serve the hurting members of Jesus' body, shouldn't they serve evacuated missionaries without charge as we have served without charge or at most charge just enough to cover their costs instead of charging astronomical sums and profiting from wounded missionaries? The Christian inpatient program for dissociative identity disorder stopped answering.