Mark has been exceptionally busy this last week. He has had two women with ruptured uteruses and dead babies due to prolonged labors at home, several sad cases of advanced breast cancer, tuberculosis, and many high risk deliveries. He is also preparing a chapel sermon on prayer. Wow…the timing for that sermon is perfect. As [...]
19/10/03 26/6/11 Dear Friends and Family, Here is hoping that all is well with you. My beautiful wife is back home with me in Soddo. Hooray! It is marvelous having her here, unfortunately she contacted a cold in the USA and has been quite sick this entire week. Harry and Donna Brown are here, arriving [...]
Greetings from Soddo. This week has been very different for me. A lot of my energy has been focused on one patient who I will talk about later. Also, Alice and I celebrated our 37th wedding anniversary June 8th, but on separate continents. This was a for for us. Usually we spend a couple of [...]
16/8/03 4/24/11 Today we are celebrating life and the resurrection of our Lord. Happy Easter everyone. This week we have experienced the depths of despair and the heights of joy. Our fourth maternal death: On Friday Stephanie was working at the government hospital when a young teenage mother came in in an almost comatose state. She had [...]
2/8/03 4/10/13 What a week we have had! This week started last Sunday when we met Oom Bole (pronounced Um Boley), a 103 year old soldier and servant of Jesus. We felt so humbled to be in his presence, a great man of God. Please read Alice’s blog below to learn more about him. We [...]
March 28, 2011 19/7/03 God’s grace has been much more tangible to us since coming to Ethiopia. It was never more apparent, however, than on Wednesday of last week when our grandson was born. Jack David Karnes entered the world at 5:55 A.M. in Waco, Texas weighing 8 lbs. 10 ozs.! He was 21 inches [...]
12/7/03 21/3/11 This past week has been the week of the preemies. We have had five. The three smallest of these weighed in at 1.1 kg., 1.3 kg., and 1.7 kg., respectively. With these very small babies come some big challenges to keep them alive. There are multiple reasons for this. The first is that [...]
5/7/03 14/3/11 Here’s the latest news: Well believe it or not there were no major catastrophes this week. The maternity ward has been pretty slow and the surgical cases have all gone well. We are praising God for this. This has given us more time to do other things like meeting with the hospital administrator [...]
28/6/03 This past week has been filled with joy and sadness. I would just like one week not to have a major catastrophe. With that opening statement, let me say that we had a marvelous time in Addis last weekend. We said good-bye to the Solfelts from Madison, Wisconsin. They came to Soddo to fill [...]
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