by Paul Osteen | Oct 14, 2016 | Stories
Every morning, Kevin wakes up in the deep blue of early morning. Like many other 12-year-old girls in Papoga, Uganda, she promptly starts her chores before going to school. She sweeps around the hut she shares with her sisters, gathers water from a nearby spring, and...
by Paul Osteen | Oct 14, 2016 | Stories
It was my first visit to Africa. I was working at Tenwek Hospital in Kenya in Casualty, which is what they call the ER there. I had only been there a couple weeks when I got the chance to care for an eight year old boy who had come in for appendicitis a week prior....
by Paul Osteen | Oct 14, 2016 | Stories
I first met Sarah at the Prescription for Renewal conference in Asheville, North Carolina. She had just finished her surgical training program and was so excited about beginning the Samaritan’s Purse/World Medical Mission 2 year post-residency training program. Her...
by Paul Osteen | Oct 14, 2016 | Stories
Dr. Jenny Dyer, one of our speakers, sent us an interesting article that we think is a great read. “Women account for six out of ten of the world’s poorest and two-thirds of the illiterate, according to the UNDP. “Excessive female mortality” in the developing...
by Paul Osteen | Oct 14, 2016 | Stories
Sofia is a nobody, by the world’s standards. At 75 years of age, with long dangling earlobes from tribal piercing at a young age, now mostly toothless, she looks like hundreds of other old Kipsigis women in southwestern Kenya. But to her large family, she is the...
by Paul Osteen | Oct 14, 2016 | Stories
When we think about the mission field, our first thought is usually a destitute area in the developing world. The United States is not the first place that comes to mind. Because when we think about America, we picture bustling Times Square in New York City or a...
