Thursday, October 30, 2008
October 31st!
...a big day for us at the airport!
First, Daniel will be flying out for Ethiopia for a medical trip. (Please keep him and the entire team in your prayers. I will post about his trip as I get information.)
Second, it's the second anniversary of Zeke's homecoming day (we picked him up at the airport). What a journey! God bringing him into our family has taught us so much on so many levels. We are truly blessed. I've posted a short clip for you to watch of our little pumkin.
Happy Fall everyone! Blessings to everyone!
First, Daniel will be flying out for Ethiopia for a medical trip. (Please keep him and the entire team in your prayers. I will post about his trip as I get information.)
Second, it's the second anniversary of Zeke's homecoming day (we picked him up at the airport). What a journey! God bringing him into our family has taught us so much on so many levels. We are truly blessed. I've posted a short clip for you to watch of our little pumkin.
Happy Fall everyone! Blessings to everyone!
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Medical Personnel needed
I was checking the HCM website this morning and ran across this post:
MD & DENTAL : ECUADOR
OPTICAL & DENTAL: ETHIOPIA
MD & OPTICAL : KOSRAE
OPTICAL : CENTRAL EURASIA
Personnel needed :: Ethiopia | Print |
We are in urgent need of optical and dental professionals for our trip to Ethiopia, which is scheduled for October 30 - November 10. If you are interested, please contact our Logistics department.
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Daniel is scheduled for the Ethiopia Team at the end of this month. Go to www.healthcareministries.org [posted on the right hand bar of our blog] and check out the future trips, personnel needed and just items you can donate for medical teams! It's a great site with some awesome pictures of some of the HCM folks on medical team trips! There's even one of them in a canoe heading to a clinic!
MD & DENTAL : ECUADOR
OPTICAL & DENTAL: ETHIOPIA
MD & OPTICAL : KOSRAE
OPTICAL : CENTRAL EURASIA
Personnel needed :: Ethiopia | Print |
We are in urgent need of optical and dental professionals for our trip to Ethiopia, which is scheduled for October 30 - November 10. If you are interested, please contact our Logistics department.
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Daniel is scheduled for the Ethiopia Team at the end of this month. Go to www.healthcareministries.org [posted on the right hand bar of our blog] and check out the future trips, personnel needed and just items you can donate for medical teams! It's a great site with some awesome pictures of some of the HCM folks on medical team trips! There's even one of them in a canoe heading to a clinic!
Missions updates!
Medical Evangelism Forum
Daniel came back from the forum all abuzz with meeting new people from churches all over this great nation and reconnecting with others we've met before. Deb Highfill is the new director of Healthcare Ministries. Bob McGurty, the outgoing director is stepping into a new role over at the Missions Headquarters and we will miss him.
Can you say, "Co-op"??!!! That is the new word of the day at the MEF. Timberline Church in Colorado was on hand to lead the way and tell how churches can co-op with each other and HCM to put together medical mission trips. Smaller churches [or churches who just don't have the medical volunteers] that have never been able to send medical teams out are now being able to be part of medical missions.
HCM [www.hopethatheals.org] comes along and provides: training, team leaders, medical supplies, missions manual for leading teams, healthcare education and so much more. Empowering the local churches here in the US to be able to send medical evangelism teams and bring "Hope That Heals" to the World. All this in conjunction with host missionaries who are making a long term impact in their country of ministry.
It is so exciting to see the body of Christ come together and work to reach out and be the hand of Christ to a hurting world!
OK... so what does the buffalo have to do with the MEF??? Nothing! Except, I must be a little more specific with Daniel when I send the camera with him next time.
He meets people from all over this nation and comes home with 5 pictures of a buffalo! His excuse... "Well, It was one BIG buffalo head!"
Daniel came back from the forum all abuzz with meeting new people from churches all over this great nation and reconnecting with others we've met before. Deb Highfill is the new director of Healthcare Ministries. Bob McGurty, the outgoing director is stepping into a new role over at the Missions Headquarters and we will miss him.
Can you say, "Co-op"??!!! That is the new word of the day at the MEF. Timberline Church in Colorado was on hand to lead the way and tell how churches can co-op with each other and HCM to put together medical mission trips. Smaller churches [or churches who just don't have the medical volunteers] that have never been able to send medical teams out are now being able to be part of medical missions.
HCM [www.hopethatheals.org] comes along and provides: training, team leaders, medical supplies, missions manual for leading teams, healthcare education and so much more. Empowering the local churches here in the US to be able to send medical evangelism teams and bring "Hope That Heals" to the World. All this in conjunction with host missionaries who are making a long term impact in their country of ministry.
It is so exciting to see the body of Christ come together and work to reach out and be the hand of Christ to a hurting world!
OK... so what does the buffalo have to do with the MEF??? Nothing! Except, I must be a little more specific with Daniel when I send the camera with him next time.
He meets people from all over this nation and comes home with 5 pictures of a buffalo! His excuse... "Well, It was one BIG buffalo head!"
Vacation, Wedding and Rangers... oh, my!
I got up at 5:00 a.m. this morning to work some more on the huge paperwork pile that I started digging through yesterday. All I could think of is, "Where has the last two months gone!" (Well that and "I've got to come up with a system to tame this paperwork tiger in my office or hire a secretary!") I get chastised about not updating my blog more often.
So here are highlights on the last couple of months:
August
We started back homeschooling full force again in August. The little chickens weren't too happy about it; but we keep telling them that reading/writing/'rithmatic are necessary evils. We also took a lovely trip to the Great Smokey Mountains in August. Ahhh, that place is a slice of heaven on earth. I think my kids would have made great mountain men years back... hiking trails and discovering every bug, leaf and plant along the way suited them just fine. I think the highlight of the trip was when were hiking back from a waterfall and a black bear stepped in the path in front of us! [Don't worry! We didn't mess with him an he didn't mess with us!] We even got to spend a couple days with Grandmother and Papa on the trip.
September
We came back from the mountains in time to have a graduation with the Rangers and MPact girls. Both Nate and Gabe medaled this year and qualifed to go to Ranger of the Year testing for each of their age groups. Michaelyn is in Stars class and was the "Super Star" this year of her class! Zeke is always a star, but they don't hand out medals in nursery.
Yes! It was a perfect day for a wedding. Our "basement girl" [as we very lovingly called her for the last six months] and her fiance' were married this month. My mother came up and did the flowers for the wedding [Mom, you are marvelous!] I actually made the wedding cake and Daniel left for Medical Evangelism Forum [next post for details on that one]. The birds were singing in the background in the garden wedding and the b-b-q in the pavillion was yummy! [God, you did a marvelous job on the weather!]
Through everything, we spent the last two months studying daily for Ranger of the Year testing. We took the books on vacation with us [and actually studied them!], we studied in the car with a cd running errands for the wedding, and we studied so much I think even Zeke could recite the Ranger Pledge! Well, they did it! Nate scored Outstanding and is competing at District this coming weekend. Gabe scored Outstanding [actually he scored 100%] and this was his first year competing! If you ever want a good program to be involved with kids...Royal Rangers does an awesome job of mixing scouting with Bible and life skills.
Now I must get back to the huge pile in the basement. So, if there are any volunteer secretaries out there.... I'd totally be glad for you to give me a ring!
So here are highlights on the last couple of months:
August
We started back homeschooling full force again in August. The little chickens weren't too happy about it; but we keep telling them that reading/writing/'rithmatic are necessary evils. We also took a lovely trip to the Great Smokey Mountains in August. Ahhh, that place is a slice of heaven on earth. I think my kids would have made great mountain men years back... hiking trails and discovering every bug, leaf and plant along the way suited them just fine. I think the highlight of the trip was when were hiking back from a waterfall and a black bear stepped in the path in front of us! [Don't worry! We didn't mess with him an he didn't mess with us!] We even got to spend a couple days with Grandmother and Papa on the trip.
September
We came back from the mountains in time to have a graduation with the Rangers and MPact girls. Both Nate and Gabe medaled this year and qualifed to go to Ranger of the Year testing for each of their age groups. Michaelyn is in Stars class and was the "Super Star" this year of her class! Zeke is always a star, but they don't hand out medals in nursery.
Yes! It was a perfect day for a wedding. Our "basement girl" [as we very lovingly called her for the last six months] and her fiance' were married this month. My mother came up and did the flowers for the wedding [Mom, you are marvelous!] I actually made the wedding cake and Daniel left for Medical Evangelism Forum [next post for details on that one]. The birds were singing in the background in the garden wedding and the b-b-q in the pavillion was yummy! [God, you did a marvelous job on the weather!]
Through everything, we spent the last two months studying daily for Ranger of the Year testing. We took the books on vacation with us [and actually studied them!], we studied in the car with a cd running errands for the wedding, and we studied so much I think even Zeke could recite the Ranger Pledge! Well, they did it! Nate scored Outstanding and is competing at District this coming weekend. Gabe scored Outstanding [actually he scored 100%] and this was his first year competing! If you ever want a good program to be involved with kids...Royal Rangers does an awesome job of mixing scouting with Bible and life skills.
Now I must get back to the huge pile in the basement. So, if there are any volunteer secretaries out there.... I'd totally be glad for you to give me a ring!
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