Things That Make Me Smile!

June 9, 2018

Life is full and busy and fun and hard and so much more! It’s fun to take time to consider. So here is my pondering tonight: Things that make me smile: soft bunny fur! happy puppy greetings with whole bodies wiggling! rain out of a sunny sky! cute babies! watching helicopters land! views out airplane […]

Big hearts

June 9, 2018

Sometimes the medical clinic seems to have a theme for a time with several of our patients coming in with similar things. Here recently one of the themes seems to be cardiac. (See blog Stomach, Lungs, or Heart for another one of these patients.) Last week, we had a visit from a patient that we […]

Stomach, Lungs, or Heart?

June 9, 2018

About 1-2 months ago now, we saw a new patient. She came to us with complaints of feeling short of breath after getting food poisoning. She also had a non-productive moist cough with wheezes. Her vital signs were normal with a moderately elevated blood pressure (159/87) and good oxygen saturations. Being that it all initially […]

The “one another”s of the Bible and hiking

June 9, 2018

The Bible has a lot to say about the “one another”s throughout its pages. I was reminded of these last fall and have continued to notice them off-and-on without thinking much of it until recently. Then I realized how impactful these “one another”s are. I had the opportunity to join friends on a hike to […]

Hungry Baby

June 9, 2018

We often take calls and emails from our remote church planters with medical questions and patients that have been brought to them for help. This past week, we received a call from one such missionary women who is frequently asked to treat the people of their language group. They are very remote. There is no […]

Traveling to PNG!

June 7, 2018

We are getting very close to boarding the plane to PNG. This will happen on Father’s Day, June 17th! Linn had what we thought was her very last eye checkup six months after surgery #3. It turns out that the doctor wants to KEEP seeing Linn every six months. We let him know we would […]

Down Under

June 6, 2018

Thank you so much for praying for our new families during their stage 1 studies. Last week we gave them their “kick-off” into the second half of stage 1, where they’ll be doing more speaking as well as continuing to learn new vocabulary and getting to know their new culture/setting better. Yesterday I got to […]

Braced Again

June 4, 2018

One year ago, Abigail rejoiced in the news that she no longer needed to wear her night time brace for her scoliosis. Twelve months later, Abigail is braced again. However, this time her teeth are braced. Last month, not only did Abigail get braces, but Luke did too. However, things haven’t gone so well so […]

A Spring Wedding

June 3, 2018

Spring Wedding In March we enjoyed a 3-week whirlwind trip from PNG to California and back again. The reason for the trip was to attend the wedding of our son, Simon to Chandler Noe. It was a beautiful outdoor celebration. It was a bit chilly but thankfully it didn’t rain, and it turned out to […]

Orchestrated by God …

June 1, 2018

God’s way are not our ways … and we are experiencing this first hand as I, Diana, plan a trip to Paraguay! This was not our plan nor our timing but God has clearly shown us that it is HIS timing. He has quickly orchestrated this trip and in such miraculous ways that there is […]