Jars of Clay

Clay jars are an important visual metaphor for the Hages. It was at John's ordination that Lewis Galloway visually introduced this idea.

Yesterday, I was informed the "Jars of Clay" also represent an American Christian Rock group that is here in Kenya for a concert. They are in partnership with other Kenyan musicians with the purpose of promoting HIV testing for a million of Kenya's youth.

That same day, I heard a mock thesis defense by one of the Family Medicine residents on the promotion of HIV testing in rural Kenya. His bottom line is that physicians need to promote HIV testing.

So the point of this story the the "jars of clay" is that there are other unique responses to the HIV crisis and that improved and expanded testing is one of the important strategies of prevention.

Marvin