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...
by FHAS | Sep 26, 2014 | Updates
Kirk and I are en route home from Mongolia, where we conducted a pediatric cardiac catheterization mission with a team of seven: two cardiologists (Kirk and Dr. Mary Porisch), two anesthesiologists (me and Dr. Maria Garcia), a pediatric ICU doctor (Dr. Barbara Jo...
by FHAS | Dec 7, 2013 | Updates
We didn’t go to Fallujah, Iraq this week. We were supposed to. This would have been Kirk’s fifth trip, my (Kim’s) fourth, and our team’s fourth to do cardiac caths there. Our team this time was made up of Kirk, me, pediatric cardiac interventionalist Allison...
