We are coming to the end of North American summer, which is still winter around here. Our visiting groups love our cooler weather and rainy days. Even on the coast at Clinica Ezell the clouds and rain give a welcome relief to the heat of the day. We have had several visitors in July and August and are welcoming our September teams right now. Here are a few snaps from our last months' work.
Family Visit
Our nieces Allie and Olivia came down to see us for a week. It was fun to have some teenagers hanging around. They worked hard and cooked for us and made me a birthday pie!
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| Watch out world! |
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| Allie and Liv enjoying the beauty at Hospital Ezell |
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| Birthday spaghetti dinner. |
Eastside Church of Christ--Clinica Caris
We hosted our friends from our church family in Colorado Springs in July. This is always a fun and creative team to say the least. They brought a reading comprehension team that worked in the area schools, a diabetic and prenatal nutrition class for our patients and Nutrition program mamas, and a construction crew that remodeled our prayer and counseling room at Clinica Caris and did a paint job on the clinic. They also spring cleaned our house and did some gardening upgrades for us at the house! We really enjoyed the fellowship and the fruits of their labor. We are regularly blessed by this congregation in the way they faithfully support us financially and encourage us spiritually. Thank you, Lord!
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| Work crew ready! |
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| After a long day, enjoying dinner together. |
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| Kelly and Heather helping catch us up on vitamin packaging. |
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| Jolee inspiring kids to love reading. |
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| Crazy traffic from the Driver's Day holiday for all the truck and public transport drivers. |
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| Heather and I at Clinica Caris |
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| James, Bill and Kevin with Diego working on the Prayer and Counseling room. |
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| Joyce and our translators Ana and Haydee ready for classes |
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| McClain and Bryce on the go! |
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| Kevin and Diego communicating without words haha! |
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| Headed out for a "three hour tour" |
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| Sweet baby from the Nutrition Program class |
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| Richard patiently painting the hard to reach places. |
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| Home visit to set up water filters. |
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| A little stop at the local nursery. |
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| Joyce encouraging a first grader. |
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| Benita showing us how to work the new hemoglobin A1c monitors. |
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| Kelly dusting off her pedi skills |
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| Very warm welcome from the Chuchipaca II Iglesia de Cristo! |
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| Shawna teaching the Nutrition Program moms about prenatal and early childhood nutrition. |
August General/Plastics/Urology Surgery--Hospital Ezell
Our monthly surgery teams are going well at Hospital Ezell since re-iniciating services in March of this year. We are grateful for the visiting surgical staff as well as our Guatemalan hospital staff that keep things running mostly smoothly. We are also thankful to God for his provision and protection for our patients during these weeks.
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| Happy Birthday, Sheri! You can't hide. |
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| For the glory of God! |
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| Ready to go back! |
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| Receiving patients in post op recovery area. |
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| Our star general surgery team! |
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| Plastic surgery |
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| Recovery team |
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| Hardworking nursing team |
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| Thank you everybody! |
