by FHAS | Jul 16, 2012 | Updates
Kirk was right. An update was required. A long but funny tale… Our team flew from Baghdad to Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan, Iraq on Sunday afternoon. I said goodbye to them there and flew on to Erbil, Kurdistan, Iraq. I landed about 7 p.m. My flight to Istanbul...
by FHAS | Jul 15, 2012 | Updates
We spent the week in Fallujah, Iraq. Preemptive Love Coalition and Living Light International built the relationships and laid the groundwork for a team to be invited there and we were the team blessed to be able to answer the call. Kirk had been here to screen at...
by FHAS | Jun 18, 2012 | Updates
I am on my way back from a trip to Mongolia and wanted to share something God showed me. When I go to countries that have very little access to pediatric heart surgery, if any at all, I frequently see patients who are either too late for surgery or their surgical...
by FHAS | May 14, 2012 | Updates
“He saw a large crowd, and felt compassion for them and healed their sick” Matthew 14:14. I just spent 12 days with Kirk in Kurdistan and Kosovo. Our plan was to go to Dohuk, Kurdistan, Iraq with our friends Dr May Porisch, pediatric cardiac interventionalist, and Dr...
by FHAS | May 10, 2012 | Updates
We closed nine atrial septal defects with devices, ballooned three pulmonary valves, one aortic valve, three diagnostic caths for patients with large VSDs (two were operable) did two diagnostic TEEs, and two diagnostic angiograms for a 4 y/o boy with a PDA and a 26...
by FHAS | Jan 31, 2012 | Updates
“He saw a large crowd, and felt compassion for them and healed their sick” Matthew 14:14. I just spent 12 days with Kirk in Kurdistan and Kosovo. Our plan was to go to Dohuk, Kurdistan, Iraq with our friends Dr May Porisch, pediatric cardiac interventionalist, and Dr...
by FHAS | Oct 31, 2011 | Updates
Grace. Unmerited favor. Kirk and I are on the plane home from Mongolia. During our annual Searching for the Broken Hearts week, Kirk and a team of about 22 Americans and 16 Mongolians screened 2,184 children for congenital heart disease in the southwest portion of...
by FHAS | Oct 3, 2011 | Mongolia
Grace. Unmerited favor. Kirk and I are on the plane home from Mongolia. During our annual Searching for the Broken Hearts week, Kirk and a team of about 22 Americans and 16 Mongolians screened 2,184 children for congenital heart disease in the southwest portion of...
by FHAS | Oct 3, 2011 | Kurdistan/Iraq
I am en route home from my fourth trip to Kurdistan. Kirk and I went with a total team of seven to perform what turned out to be a total of 20 pediatric heart catheterizations. The week was utterly exhausting, but this is nothing new. The continual “do not grow...
by FHAS | Oct 6, 2010 | Mongolia
Tradition: I’m on the plane from Seoul to San Francisco, with Kirk beside me, returning from our seventh surgical trip to Mongolia since 2005, and writing this update. I felt like the Lord gave me a word picture this week. I was feeling euphoric in the midst of a hard...
