Happy Valentine’s Month! It has been a fast and furious start to the year. Kim and I headed to Asia in January. Our first stop was in Vietnam, where we spent time in Hanoi with church planters there and got to work with the young adults. I love to see what the Lord is doing in Vietnam.

From there, we picked up a medical team in Cambodia. It was incredible. The medical providers saw over 500 patients alone! The dental, physical therapy and vision team saw over 500 as well. It was truly amazing to see people from 6 states and 13 different churches come together in one place for one purpose. That’s a lot of logistics! The travel agents we work with are the unsung heroes behind the scenes helping make it all happen.

We got to see patients come back from last year. And, we met a lot of new friends in the process. Kim was very excited to have an occupational therapist join the team so that she wasn’t alone in the physical therapy department for the first time ever. They saw 200 patients between the two of them.

I enjoy seeing the impact we are able to have in the field alongside our ministry partners, but it is also encouraging to see the impact each team member has on each other as we work together and spend hours on buses and planes talking. It never ceases to amaze me how the Lord knows exactly who we need on our team and how He has prepared them with a perfect skill set to be used. We had several non-medical people on our team, and it would not have functioned without their help. We even had a MANNA Trustee and Christine O’Neal, MANNA’s Medical Coordinator on the team.

As an added bonus, we got to watch Kayli compete at the University of Texas Invitational via a Facebook live feed. The Aggies came in first, just saying. 

Our trip home was quite the adventure. Our flight out of Siem Reap was delayed because a forklift operator damaged the plane. They had to bring in a new one from Vietnam. We barely got the team back to Phnom Penh to catch their flight home. Then, on our flight home we got stuck in Tokyo for over 20 hours, from what started as a mechanical issue, and ended as a revolt by several passengers refusing to fly. Fun times. But, we made it home in time to hit the road out to West Texas.

Thank you for your prayers and support. Enjoy the following pictures.