Kurdistan, Iraq :: January 2016

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...

MALAWI :: August 2015

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...

Kurdistan, Iraq :: May 2015

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...

Mongolia :: March 2015

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...

Nepal :: October 2014

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...