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Feliz Dias de madres! Soo, today, unlike most of the days, was rather chill minus all the packing and cleaning out of the rooms in which we were staying. No getting up at 6 am (thankfully). The [...]

Happy birthday to you, happy birth… wait we’re in Colombia. Cumpleaños feliz, Cumpleaños feliz!  Feliz Cumple Ruth! Today was a day of birthday surprises for Ruth Fox, we all signed a t-shirt in [...]

This was a day of “lasts.” We had our last clinic. Sadness! We have all enjoyed clinic immensely and I will definitely be missing it. I have learned so much from each day of seeing [...]

Tuesday, August 16th Today was a nice break from the busy day at the orphanage yesterday. We all love the kids, and enjoyed every moment there; but practically a whole day watching at least 21 [...]

Today we headed off to the orphanage in Teopisca to take care of the kids so that the orphanage director and his wife could have a day off. They currently don’t have anyone to watch the [...]

For church, this morning, we drove out about an hour to an orphanage a couple of towns over. A couple and their three kids run an orphanage of about 20 children. They have a small church service [...]

This morning we drove about 45 minutes to a village way out in the mountains. They have very little access to medical help. Ruth started taking down names for the clinic before we even made it to [...]

Today the team went to a neighboring town (pueblito) called Palma Real. We held another clinic in their local church building which was a concrete structure with a tin roof and dirt floor. Today, [...]

Coming from the perspective of a medical student, today was awesome! Coming from the perspective of a missionary, today was awesome! Coming from the perspective of a child of an amazing creator [...]

As the leader of the team, I am always commissioned to write the last and final blog of the trip. Every time, you put your finger on the keyboard, and wonder, “what do I say”? There [...]