Back on track - Medical Missions

Well, 2011 is here and with it comes new opportunities for growth and good work. Project HOPE contacted me regarding my availability to go to Haiti with a relief team. I had tentatively set aside the time but was just about to lose any hope of going. God surprises me all the time. I have my packing list. I have provided documentation for everything - education, immunizations, etc. I was ready with most of this since the earthquake in Jan. 2010. As a matter of fact, I had even updated my typhoid vaccination at that time in anticipation of being called upon.

So now it is really about to happen. Mandy from Project HOPE has arranged my travel. JFK to Miami, Miami to Port-Au-Prince... I wonder if I will need to pack an extra bag for the butterflies in my gut? I am excited, a little anxious even. How much will I be able to recall from my time in Kansas City for the INMED International Medicine Intensive course? We shall see. I have long hoped for an opportunity to work with Project HOPE. Actually, it is part of my tentative retirement plan. My idea of a good time when I "retire" is to spend a few months of the year on board a ship providing aid & services to developing nations such at Liberia, Ghana, Togo... Plus I have wanted to gain experience working on a team with an established group so I have more to offer ADF/Atorkor Village in Ghana. I have not been there for more than 18 months but I keep in touch with the Togbui of the village as well as some of the other wonderful, lovely people I have met there and now call friend. It all comes together. All my experiences have a link, a common thread and help me to function beneficially in a variety of settings.

To do some good while we are on this earth is the ultimate goal, for we may never get another chance to come this way again...after all, We are only Passing through....