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Settling In…

30 May

We just wanted to let everyone know that we are now in Dallas and working on getting settled in at our new home.  We have about three more weeks before Christo starts his orientation for residency and so we are filling them with unpacking, painting the house and working on the yard. 

We have been delighted to get to know our neighbors – as you walk your way around our culdasac there is a family from the Congo, a family from El Salvador, our family, an American man, a mixed family in which the husband is African American and the wife is Korean and then an African American family. There are lots of kids of various ages so Karuna and Luke are having fun making new friends also. 

We’ll post more once we get internet access at the house and when our home improvement projects get tamed a little bit more.

Also we just wanted to introduce you to the new site that our blog will be on.  We finally had to move our blog to a site that could be hosted on our own servers so that we wouldn’t have the problems of pictures being deleted like what happened several times with our old webserver.  There is also a new section on the blog called PIctures where you can view pictures in galleries.  We thought that would be an easier way to keep track of pictures and keep them organized.  Let us know if there is something else you think would be a good addition to the site and we’ll try to incorporate them.  Also notice the new links on the right sidebar…there is a website about some of the iniatives that are going on to improve our neighborhood.

 

 
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Last Week and Return to America

16 May

Just wanted to give all of you a quick summary of our trip back to the US and our first few days back in America. We left Makunda last Wednesday to start our journey home back to the US. Before our departure, the staff at Makunda threw us a wonderful farewell potluck dinner and so we were able to visit with most of the campus families before we left. We were sad to leave so many new friends who have such a passion for serving Christ through medical missions work but we we were consoled with the thought that we will soon be able to return to India to labor with them to reach people with the Gospel. Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Melissa’s Post From Week 3

14 May

Because of the problems we had with our internet connection, we were not able to put up this post from Melissa. Continue to lift up Luke in your prayers as he has still been suffering from diarrhea. The kids are having a difficult time with jet lag…they were up this morning about 1:30 AM. We hope that they will be able to re-time their body clocks soon. We’ve also put up some pictures from our third week along with this post. Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Back Home

13 May

Just a quick post to let all of you know that we have arrived safely back in Rochester around 4 PM this afternoon. God blessed us with a good travel experience and the kids did well although they have both crashed for the evening. Please continue to lift us up in your prayers as we get over jet lag, get ready for graduation and move to Texas in the next four days! We’ll write more when we get a little more sleep. Just in case you were wondering…it seems that the server that was hosting our pictures has gone offline and so you might have gotten a page not found error when you clicked on the picture galleries. I moved all our pictures to another server and so they should be working again. Just let us know if you cannot view the picture galleries again.

 
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Week Three

06 May

Another week has passed and we now down to less than a week at Makunda before we leave here for Delhi on Saturday and then return to the US on Tuesday. It has been a good week at Makunda with time to talk with other families on campus and to get their perspectives on mission work in India.

Monday was an extremely busy day in the outpatient clinic where we saw 290 patients! Even with the extra help provided by the return of Dr. Vijay and Dr. Ann, we felt that we could hardly keep up with the extra number of patients who were here. I have to think that the patients must somehow know how many doctors will be working on a particular day and tailor the number of people who visit the clinic accordingly. Regardless, I thought seeing that many patients in a day did them a disservice and wore out the staff to the point of sheer exhaustion but it is so difficult to do anything else because how do you turn away so many people who have traveled anywhere from 2-8 hours for the chance to see a doctor? One of the things that we’ve talked with several of the healthcare providers here about was having nurses help see patients as well and then for them to refer more complicated patients to physicians so that the workload would be more manageable and so that each patient would get more than the 2-5 minutes we can give them at the current pace. Read the rest of this entry »

 
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