Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Friday, February 22, 2019
Random Thoughts and a few Snapshots
As I take a break between video conferences I thought I'd post a quick blog.
This is a shot of downtown Graham, NC looking north. The building centrally located in our traffic circle is the historic Alamance County Court House. The arrow and yellow circle designate the building in which our office is located. We lease space in The Cooperative.
Karen continues to co-lead the Wednesday morning Ladies' Bible Study at church with Sandra. Sandra and Karen are seated back by the TV screen.
Tucker's still up and around, slower, but still a steady mover. Here she's enjoying a "spa day." Or rather, resting and drying out from a personal bath by Karen, her private pamper person.
And we still have our backyard birds. In this case, an Eastern Blue Bird.
Red Bellied Woodpecker
Northern Cardinal
Brown Headed Nuthatch
Thanks for stopping by! You know where to find us!
Friday, January 25, 2019
Christmas in Congo: Jesse Mitchell
Here's a slice of life from Jesse Mitchell, one of the ten GOM missionaries Karen and I helped orient and train back back in August 2017. We spent the next year coaching Jesse through fund raising and he's now been in the Republic of Congo for five months. Jesse serves as part of our non-medical staff at Pioneer Christian Hospital (PCH). PCH is our hospital in the village of Impfondo.
Jesse is a trained chef working to develop a feeding program to help our patients heal faster, start a sustainable gardening project to supplement the local food varieties, and assist at our partner ministry, Kimia Leprosy Center just down the trail.
From Jesse:
"This has been a crazy holiday season here in Congo...which is perfectly normal for here, I guess. The children at the hospital church put on a brilliant Christmas Nativity play. Mary and Joseph finding nowhere else to stay, ended up in a little palm-thatched hut all lit up with Christmas lights and tinsel, nestled in a small grove of banana trees.
"Angels jumped out of the grove screaming, 'DO. NOT. BE. AFRAID!' As shepherds and sheep (choir boys with ears on) fell to the ground shouting and bleating in terror, respectively. Then the Wise Men came down the isle following the star (a little blinking bicycle light on a pulley). It was perfect.
"When the Angel warned Joseph and Mary to not go back to Nazareth, King Herod became furious and sent his terrifying Masked Gunmen to kill baby Jesus. As they searched the church for Jesus, terrifying the little kids, the Angel ushered Joseph and Mary out the side door and on their way to Egypt seconds before the masked gunmen found the hut and blasted away at it with their beeping, sonic laser guns."
Jesse Mitchell, Republic of Congo
Jesse is a trained chef working to develop a feeding program to help our patients heal faster, start a sustainable gardening project to supplement the local food varieties, and assist at our partner ministry, Kimia Leprosy Center just down the trail.
From Jesse:
"This has been a crazy holiday season here in Congo...which is perfectly normal for here, I guess. The children at the hospital church put on a brilliant Christmas Nativity play. Mary and Joseph finding nowhere else to stay, ended up in a little palm-thatched hut all lit up with Christmas lights and tinsel, nestled in a small grove of banana trees.
Joseph and Mary and the birthplace of Jesus.
The shepherds and their sheep.
The Wise Men following the star.
"When the Angel warned Joseph and Mary to not go back to Nazareth, King Herod became furious and sent his terrifying Masked Gunmen to kill baby Jesus. As they searched the church for Jesus, terrifying the little kids, the Angel ushered Joseph and Mary out the side door and on their way to Egypt seconds before the masked gunmen found the hut and blasted away at it with their beeping, sonic laser guns."
Stay tuned for more slices of life from Jesse.
It's our tremendous pleasure to share how God is working through your partnership to send and sustain GOM's missionaries all over the world.
Monday, November 12, 2018
Talking With The Future
Each fall, Karen and I travel to Louisville, Kentucky to represent our mission at the Global Missions Health Conference (GMHC). GMHC is the largest conference in the United States focused on medical missions. Over 150 agencies, vendors, and service providers participated in this year's conference, November 8-10. The conference is an intense time of personal interaction, relational development, networking, recruiting, and mobilization with medical professionals, and future medical professionals, interested in mission service.
This year our team consisted of Rachel, Recruiting Administrator; Karen, Partnership Resource Manager; me, Director of Partnership Development; and Greg, VP of Personnel. Over the course of the conference we made over 100 solid connections with individuals, couples, and families interested in learning more about joining Global Outreach Mission in revealing Christ to the world.
Our Team: Rachel, Karen, Me, and Greg
This year our team consisted of Rachel, Recruiting Administrator; Karen, Partnership Resource Manager; me, Director of Partnership Development; and Greg, VP of Personnel. Over the course of the conference we made over 100 solid connections with individuals, couples, and families interested in learning more about joining Global Outreach Mission in revealing Christ to the world.
Greg
Rachel
Karen
Greg shares one of our ministry brochures.
Karen leads a tour of Pioneer Christian Hospital, our medical facility in the Republic of Congo, using our touch-screen kiosk.
Thank your for joining us at the conference through your prayerful and financial partnership!
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