Meeting THEIR physical needs

September 21, 2011

We arrived home, in the village, 5 weeks ago. It is always nice to be home and sleeping in our own beds but being home has added stresses too. Since June I have had to take on the medical issues that come up in the village. In the beginning it was just minor things, colds, […]

First Medical Flight for Ga’dang People

August 17, 2011

Last night Christina learned that our good friend Analyn (she is 19 weeks pregnant) started having some cramping and bleeding. Analyn has become a good friend to both Christina and I over the last year. We were so excited for her when she became pregnant as her and her husband had been wanting another baby […]

Sad news- Melagros

April 10, 2011

We just received word this afternoon, that after a couple days of being sick, Melagros has passed away. We had been told that with her having cerebral palsy that someday she would likely get sick and that it would be bad and then she would likely die quickly. We are very sad for this loss […]

2011 Community Projects

April 9, 2011

#1 WELLS One of the community projects that has been sitting on the back burner of our minds, so to speak, is to improve the availability and quality of water in our village. This was one of the original requests of the people when we asked them if we could live with them 3 years […]

Typhoon Megi (aka Juan)

October 25, 2010

As many of you have seen and heard from the news over the past week, our tribal area was directly hit by very powerful typhoon. Typhoon Megi, also known as Juan here in the Philippines was a category 5 when it made landfall last Monday. Even after passing over a mountain range and crossing approximately […]