Happy New Year: Pray for Guinea

Happy New Year!! We are having a quiet New Years, the girls and I sat outside our house and watched some farmers fireworks across the fields next to our house.. They were pretty cool for a low budget display. Guinea continues to unravel, please pray for the people of Guinea.

Christmas, 2008

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are having a quiet Christmas as I recover from my surgery. The girls are so excited we got a second hand fish tank and goldfish for them for Christmas.

December 22nd, 2008: Mark's Hernia Repair

I'm headed in for surgical repair of my abdominal hernia, today. I f any of you haven't seen it, it is the size of the a football sticking out right below my rib cage and my kids called it "Experiment 626" a.k.a. Stitch. The kids have written messages on my body for the doctors. They include "Warning: Contents Under Pressure!" and "Danger Blast Zone" and so on. The surgeon expected me to be in great pain and need to spend the night in the hospital due to the size and complexity of the surgery, but I felt nothing and didn't even take any of my pain meds, my total meds for the first week was 8 ibuprofen. PRAISE GOD!

December 20th, 2008: Guinea Coup

Over the last 6 months I have been warning our leadership that we should look for another country other than Guinea for the 2010 Field Service because of the Junta regime and the fragility of its leader Mr. Conteh. He did die today and a young Captain in the Army has launched a coup. He has threatened to kill anyone involved in corruption, which is just about every government leader and members of Mr. Conteh's family and friends. Please pray for the people of Guinea as they struggle to live through this uncertain military action. Please also pray for my team as we scramble to set up protocol negotiations with Angola and Congo, two countries that we have never been to before.