Mongolia::September 2012

I (Kim) always write these updates on the way home from our trips.  I didn’t want to write the one I wrote coming home from Fallujah, Iraq (our last trip).  I don’t want to write this one either.  That’s because, for me, this trip was not wrapped up in a tidy little...

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...