LifePark Medical Team September 2024

In early September we hosted a medical mission team from The Church at LifePark in Mount Pleasant, SC.  This has been one of our partner churches for the past ten years.  We love them and always enjoy getting to hosting them.

 

They arrived on a Saturday afternoon.  We took this group photo before heading out for supper.

 

On our way to church on Sunday morning.

 

 

 

the ladies

 

the guys 

The medical clinic was Monday- Wednesday.  Below are some miscellaneous photos from those days.

 

 

people registering to get into the clinic

 

 

David "babysitting" while a mother had a tooth pulled.

 

helping someone pick out new glasses

 

the sweetest little pharmacy assistant

 

 

 

 

praying over a patient

 

 

 

cleaning the dental tools

 

pharmacists

 

dentists

 

 

The boys and I spent two afternoons at the clinic helping out.  They both got to translate in different areas of the clinic.  They loved it!  Here is Cruz translating for one of the nurses.

 

Ben translating in the eye clinic.

 

 

Cruz especially enjoyed working with the dentists.

 

 

 

This was such a fun group of ladies to spend the week with!

 

Thursday lunch at Pollo Campero on their free day.

 

Antigua overlook

 

 

As with all of our teams, we were sad to see them go.  It was a fantastic week from start to finish.  

 

It has been many years since we have hosted a medical team.  This trip reignited that love.  We definitely look forward to doing more in the future. 

Life Lately April 2024

 Here is a look at our family life over the past month.

 

We made a trip to Quetzaltenango for our quarterly team meeting.  This was our Saturday morning view of the Santa Maria volcano.

 

our IMB Guatemala team

 

Cruz began a seven week flag football program that will end with a game in late May.  Here he is after his first practice.  He loved it!

 

Ben went on a field trip with Encounter Academy to Los Celajes, which is up the mountain from Antigua.

 

 

 

 

pretending to be birds in a nest

 

 

 

We enjoyed a Saturday evening fire and roasted hot dogs and marshmallows.

 

The boys and I were invited to an afternoon outing at our neighbor's house to play games.  This was my coffee cup while there.

 

Home alone, pizza, and the Pioneer Woman- what more could a tired mama want?

 

 

We enjoyed a visit with an old friend who was in town.  We first met Maria back in October 2008. We were flying back to Guatemala after making our first vacation trip back home to Mississippi since arriving on the field in 2006. We were flying on Delta buddy passes and got bumped several days in Atlanta trying to get back. While waiting to see if we would get a seat, we met the sweetest lady who was also flying on buddy passes and trying to get to Guatemala to see her sister who was dying. We formed an instant friendship and have regularly kept in touch all these years.  She has been back to Guatemala a few times since then to visit family, but we have never been able to meet up.  After fifteen years of emails, messages, and Facebook interactions, we finally saw each other in person again. It was so special! We enjoyed a meal together that included us getting to meet her daughter and her getting to meet the boys.

 

 

We celebrated Ben's 12th birthday.

 

 

Ben was invited to a birthday celebration for two of his friends.

 

David helped our IMB teammates host a volunteer team.

 

David translating in the clinic for the mission team.

 

 

Sharing the gospel.

 

 

making new friends

 

 

We ended the month celebrating our 28th wedding anniversary.