Category: Medical Work
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Vlog: Reverse Culture Shock
After living for over two years as medical missionaries in Papua New Guinea, we transitioned back to the United States. It has been quite the adjustment!
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There and Back Again
Reflections on two years in Papua New Guinea as medical missionaries, and our return to the United States.
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Vlog: Completing Two Incredible Years as Medical Missionaries in Papua New Guinea!
Reflecting on two wonderful, challenging years as medical missionaries in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, and an update on our upcoming return to the States.
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Vlog: Joy – Stories of Medical Missions in Papua New Guinea
Stories of medical missions in Papua New Guinea
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Vlog: Wild Emergency Medicine in Papua New Guinea!
Our best Vlog yet. Genae’s brother and professional videographer @evanlanier recently followed me through the hospital here in Papua New Guinea. Check out a typical (and never routine) day of missionary emergency medicine “plus”!
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Two Roads to Contentment
In Brennan Manning’s powerful book, “Abba’s Child”, he recounts Flannery O’Connor’s short story The Turkey about a young boy named Ruller. Ruller feels down about himself because nothing he does amounts to much. One day, while meandering through the woods, Ruller spots a wounded wild turkey and thinks of how proud everyone will be of him if…
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Vlog: The Worst Delivery!
Stories from the hospital, reflections on moral injury, and the blessing of lamentation.
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Patience in Well-Doing
In truth, if we know how to look, we find evidence of human dignity all around us, in the valiant efforts ordinary people make to meet necessity, to combat adversity and disappointment, to provide for their children, to care for their parents, to help their neighbors, to serve their country. Life provides numerous hard occasions…
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Vlog: He Will Give You Himself
What about when the boy is not healed? When, listened to or not listened to, the prayer goes unanswered? Who knows? Just keep praying, Jesus says. Remember the sleepy friend, the crooked judge. Even if the boy dies, keep on beating the path to God’s door, because the one thing you can be sure of…
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Is It Worth It?
Christians need to understand that bearing the cross does not in the first place refer to the trials which we call crosses, but to the daily giving up of life, of dying to self, which must mark us as much as it did the Lord Jesus, which we need in times of prosperity almost more…