Nicaragua Partner Visit
Frank Medrano and his family will be at our 11:00 a.m. worship service on Sun., Aug. 28.
Car Wash a Success for Nicaragua Mission
On Saturday, May 14, high school students who will be participating in the June 2-8 Nicaragua Mission Trip held a benefit car wash in the Combs Chapel lot. The students raised over $700 to purchase recreational equipment to take as gifts to the children in Nicaragua.
Day 6
Our final clinic day was a little more relaxed. We had 74 patients, mostly from Bijague again. We worked with Dr. Cynthia and nurse Miriam. One particularly fun patient was a man in his 80s who needed some reading glasses. Our friends from North Carolina’s mission team had left several pairs Read More...
Day 5
At our mission clinic it gets busier every day – today we served 130 people, with 101 being seen before lunch! People from a community about two hours away, named Bojague, had been notified by CEPAD that there was a clinic available this week and took full advantage! Many of the 150 Read More...
Day 5
At our mission clinic it gets busier every day. Today we served 130 people, with 101 being seen before lunch! People from a community about 2 hours away, named Bojague, had been notified by CEPAD that there was a clinic available this week and took full advantage! Many of the 150 communities Read More...
Day 4
Clinic was hectic again this morning with 40 more patients coming from Juacuapo Occidental, a village about 1.5 hours away. Our lunch was pushed back again, this time to almost 2 p.m., and the Nicaraguan nurse started doing consults for the doctor, so all the patients could be seen. A huge win Read More...
Day 3
We began the day with a delicious breakfast and started off toward Jucuapa, a small, remote community about 14 kilometers from Matagalpa. Before we left the city we stopped at the ministry of health (MINSA) to pick up our doctor and two nurses (enfermeras) that would be working with us throughout the Read More...
Days 1 and 2
Saturday night, we arrived in Managua airport at 9:15 pm. Thankfully, all our luggage arrived on time, but there were several bags that needed to be checked by customs agents. Thanks to some paperwork and Joe asserting, “Soy un pastor!” no one was apprehended at the border, and after about 15 minutes Read More...
The road home.
as I begin this post, we’ve been traveling for 11hrs 25min and we haven’t yet set foot on the first of two 8+hour flights. the Delhi airport is huge. and smoggy. that’s right. the air here is so polluted that it’s smoggy INSIDE the terminal building. otherwise, it’s like most other large, Read More...
Departure Day
Monday morning. departure day. we leave Mungeli in the afternoon to drive 2.5 hours to Raipur. then we take to the air. Raipur–DelhiDelhi–AmsterdamAmsterdam–Minneapolis*Minneapolis–Kansas City including layovers, total travel time, door to door, is about 36 hours (give or take). *ken flies to Atlanta and then on to wherever in Texas he lives. Read More...
Sunday morning in India
last we spoke, we had just seen a tiger (“in Africa?”*). as the sun rises on a Sunday morning in India, and sets on Saturday night in Kansas City, we are up, waiting, as buckets of water warm for another “shower.” We are preparing for our last full day in Mungeli. the Read More...
Saturday morning
It’s Saturday morning in Mungeli, India. the hospital is open. the kids are in school. but as you might expect, it’s quieter than a weekday. the outpatient clinic is more or less closed. normally bustling with patients for everything from x-Rays to physical therapy to dental care, today, it seems more staff Read More...
The ABCs of an India Mission Trip
click “read more” to see the whole alphabet. …and the tradition continues as team 2 presents: “the ABCs of an India mission trip.” -A is the Ambulance that acts as our bus, -wasn’t a Boar, but a tiger!! Big fuss! (sorry group 1.) -C is the Chapel that starts off each day, Read More...
Wednesday Update
Wednesday 20 January 2016. 1500 hours. Mungeli, India. (that makes it about 0330 in KC on Wednesday morning.) the monsoon made a brief cameo on Tuesday evening. it’s the dry season in this part of India but you’d have never known it. monkeys, goats, cows, dogs, chipmunks (with loooong bushy Read More...
Update from Team 2
it has been a busy few days. lots of travel, lots of work, the occasional wifi outage so to bring you up to date, here’s a quick snapshot of team two’s last few days in India. friday and Saturday were spent with dinesh (the world’s most affirmation-needy tour guide) touring a bit Read More...
