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 […]

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 […]

“Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes” (read singing)

March 4, 2018

“Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes” There are some weeks that the patients coming into the clinic develop a theme. “Oh, this week is head week” or “this week is foot week”. These past two weeks have reminded me more of the children’s song, “Head, shoulders, knees, and toes…knees and toes”. (WARNING: Some of these stories, […]

The Usual

February 18, 2018

There has not been much to write about in relation to the clinic and my medical work. Just the usual colds, well-child checks, back pain, sprained joints, cuts to treat, meds refilled, and other “usual” stuff. But after months of frequent emergencies we are grateful for “the usual” and this is actually a huge answer […]

Ministry is about Relationships

February 6, 2018

All ministry is about relationships. Any ministry is about relationships. Without relationships there is no ministry–we would simply be a stuffed shirt touting our own stuffing. Therefore, ministry is very difficult to quantify, measure, and qualify. I am the recipient of others’ ministries and strive to serve others myself. This being said, the ministries I […]

Mourning a Friend, Celebrating Jesus!

December 22, 2017

I have not had the words or known how to say what has been going on here. Time. We all needed some time. On December 7th, I was called to the clinic for an emergency cardiac arrest with a code in progress. A national friend had suffered an apparent sudden cardiac arrest after kicking the […]

The Rest of the Story…

November 27, 2017

Most often when we see patients, especially national patients, we don’t usually get to hear, as Paul Harvey used to say, “the rest of the story”…how things turned out for them. For one reason or another, they don’t follow up with our clinic. And for the most part, I am okay with that. But there […]

Foundations in School

October 27, 2017

Yesterday was a special joy for us here in support services. Most often, the teaching and church planting efforts of our missionaries occurs at a distance from us, somewhere out in the bush, and we only hear tell of the results rather than see them. But yesterday was a celebration of the conclusion of the […]