ERBIL, IRAQ::

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...

FALLUJAH::JUNE 2012

​ 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...

What Could I Say?

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...

Kurdistan/Kosovo April 2012

“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...

Mongolia::April 2012

  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...