As in previous years, our team will spend the first week in the countryside of Mongolia screening children for heart defects. We will be headed to the southwest area of the country, Gobi Altai. There will be 23 people on our team during searching week, as well as several Mongolian team members.
The second half of our trip, we will be back in Ulan Bataar for mending week. Our team will be up to 34 for our time at the hospital. Hopefully we will complete around 10 open heart surgeries, and 20 other procedures in 5 days.
Here are some specific prayer requests:
-Safe travels.
-Favor for our team and all of the supplies that will be hand-carried through customs.
-For equipment to function like it should and that our supplies would last as long as we need them to.
-Unity and grace for our team (long hours, sometimes stressful days with little sleep, so we all need supernatural grace to keep being nice to each other :). Not to mention we're just a big group of type A people.)
-That God would prepare the hearts of all the children and their families that we will come into contact with, and that we would have open doors to share the gospel.
-Guidance and wisdom for the cardiologists and surgeons as they make the final decisions on which children are eligible for surgery.
-For successful outcomes for all of the children.
-That the team would be able to sleep when we can and stay healthy throughout the trip.
-Provision in all areas.
I am hoping to update as I go. We'll see if it works out!
Thank you all for your prayers and support.
P.S. I also get to see this little guy, Temka, who just had his surgery in San Antonio in June. I was able to spend time with them while I was in Texas for a bit and took them to the zoo. Now he is completely healed and home in Mongolia. I will get to visit him and his family and see where they live. I am super excited! Love him.
