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Reflections and commentary about the curious trail that is my life…
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Getting ready for Tanzania
Today is a rest day as we transition to doing medical camps among the Maasai people. We ate dinner last night with Gospel workers who are going with us, the wife is a primary care doctor and is in the process of getting her medical license in TZ. It was refreshing and encouraging to hear…
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Refugee Day
I appreciated your prayers today- it was an impactful day for me and for the team. (We now have two sick which means I will likely stay behind tomorrow to provide them support). It’s going to take a while to process all I heard and saw today. I’ve seen and experienced a lot in my…
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Second Day of Medical Camp
Today was better than yesterday, which is saying something! We saw many children who were very sick (pneumonia). Our national partners were able to have significant spiritual conversations. The team is going to join us again on Thursday when we go to Kibera. Our students are getting unique clinical experience and the Nurse practitioners we…
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1st day of medical camp
We spent the day in Mararui. We were able to see 140 patients. We had national partners helping to share the Gospel and translate for us. English is the official language here, but the people we saw today did not speak a lot of English so our translators were an enormous help. As we reflected…
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Wonderful worship!
We had the privilege to worship at Parklands Baptist Church this morning (https://parklandsbaptist.org). So many people were there and we were the only white faces. That was so encouraging! The worship time was so lively and the message rich in Biblical stories- the service lasted several hours… I will post a short video clips for…
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First day is done..
Just a quick word about how the first day went… I am here with a group of student nurses from Oklahoma Baptist University. Their travels were not quite as smooth as mine- they had to add a stop in Istanbul and got here at 7am instead of 10pm the night before… but they rocked it…
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Smooth travels, ready to go!
I made it safe and sound. It was about 28 hours of travel- taking a shower last night and getting into a bed felt awesome. Everything went smoothly except the rest of the team had several flight delays and didn’t get here until this morning. They will push through today without sleep in the hopes…
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The anticipation of travel
“Travel is more than seeing sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” — Miriam Beard. Finally, the day is almost here! The African adventure is about to begin. I have been thinking and talking about it for months; praying for it and for all that we…
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Celebrating a milestone…
It’s been curious for sure… as we began the Covid shutdown, I began a program of study to become a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, not realizing at the time that the coming years would see the demand for PMHNPs increase so dramatically. But here we are. And I have just completed my MSN and now awaiting…