by FHAS | Feb 6, 2018 | Updates
Dear Faithful Supporters of For Hearts and Souls, I would like to thank you for your faithfulness. And I wanted to let you know what your contributions supported in 2017: JANUARY Duhok, Kurdistan: 7 open heart surgeries & 22 cardiac catheterizations Slemani,...
by FHAS | Feb 6, 2018 | Updates
I often tell people that my faith in Jesus Christ is like a rope hanging across the Grand Canyon that I would in all trust hang over that chasm on, knowing it would hold me. I grasp that rope this past week. Brace yourselves for a long saga. I do this because so many...
by FHAS | Feb 11, 2017 | Updates
Kirk and I just traveled again to Iraq, but this time with the largest For Hearts and Souls’ team we’ve ever taken there, staying the longest we’ve ever stayed. Over the course of two weeks, 29 people undertook our usual pediatric heart work, as well attempted to...
by FHAS | Aug 21, 2016 | Updates
Kirk and I are heading home from our third trip to Kurdistan, Iraq in 2016 and our fourth trip in thirteen months. I wasn’t supposed to go on this one. Our last three trips were to Duhok. We hadn’t been to Sulaymaniyah since early 2015 and our friend and pediatric...
by FHAS | Aug 21, 2016 | Updates
Fourteen of us just spent a week in Dohuk, Kurdistan, Iraq. It is a city inundated with refugees from ISIS. It was our third trip there in a year. We screened well over 100 children for congenital heart disease. We performed diagnostic and therapeutic heart...
by FHAS | Aug 21, 2016 | Updates
As usual, I (Kim) am writing this as Kirk and I are en route home. A team of five of us (Kirk, me, Mary Porisch MD, Maria Garcia MD, and Anita Rich RN) went to Duhok, Kurdistan, Iraq to conduct thirteen pediatric heart catheterizations and screen well over 100...
by FHAS | Sep 8, 2015 | Updates
Kirk and I (Kim) are heading home from Malawi. This was not a “heart” trip. It was an orphan trip. One of our favorite verses is James 1:27, which says “Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their...
by FHAS | Jun 8, 2015 | Updates
I (Kim) got very sick this week in Iraq. Nine of us (Mary Porisch, Cathy Woodward, Molly King, Nelia Soares, Caley Johns, Tim Sanken, Becky Ernst, Kirk, and me) arrived on Saturday and immediately started a whirlwind week. That first day we screened 33 children for...
by FHAS | May 12, 2015 | Updates
Tradition holds. Kirk and I are en route home from Mongolia as I write this. We went with four others (interventional cardiologist Mary Porisch, anesthesia assistant Michael Schneider, and nurses Bobbi Odom and Sherwood DeJoie) to perform cardiac catheterization...
by FHAS | Oct 28, 2014 | Updates
Kirk and I are flying home from Nepal. I have a favorite song from John and Anne Barbour called “For Such a Time as This” that this trip brings to mind. I’m going to take the time to write out most of the words because they are so good: I’ve built my house...
