It has been a great three weeks, even if it felt like we spent half of it traveling. We led a medical team to Mongolia and got to work in a village in the Gobi Desert. It is so remote; it takes 4 days just to get there from Fort Worth. We slept in yurts, with no running water. It was amazing. There was one shower and restroom inside the clinic, so we didn’t smell too bad, though we had to coordinate shower schedules. The team saw hundreds of people in the village and even more kids in the schools. It caught the attention of the mayor who requested a meeting with us before we left. God’s timing is perfect.

We had two problems coming into the trip. 1) The Buddhist temple convinced the village government to enact a law where we could not teach the Bible when we fed the kids. 2) The health department was not approving the clinic’s permit renewal for this year. As we were meeting with the mayor, he asked me if there was anything he could do for us. I said, well, as a matter of fact…here are two issues. His response? No problem, I’ll take care of them for you. Amazing!! The Lord used this team to not only serve the people in Mongolia, but to also open doors and give our ministry partners favor.

We finished the time in the Gobi doing clinics back in Ulaanbaatar at one of our MANNA nutrition centers. We also got a new baby at the orphanage. A mother abandoned her newborn at the hospital. We got to welcome it into the orphanage as it was only 48 hours old. We even had a neonatologist on our team who was able to do a new baby wellness check on him. Even better news, the mother signed away all her rights to the baby, so he is fully adoptable by a loving Mongolian family. God is good.

From there Kim and I headed to Cambodia and we got to help organize and setup a hospital in preparation for a medical team we are taking in January. We shipped a 40-foot container of supplies; this was a great chance to help sort and organize a lot of those supplies. It was a lot of work, but the operating rooms and dental room are in great shape and ready for teams.

We are home for 10 days, then running down to visit our girls in college. They are setting up meetings while we are there to meet with people at Texas A&M who are interested in their churches and organizations going on mission trips. That is exciting! We get home Sunday night, then off to Thailand on Monday to lead another team. Oh, did I mention, the Pope decided to show up in Mongolia while we were there? Thank you for the prayers and support!