I have been behind on keeping you posted on what my trip to Tanzania consisted of. It was such an incredible trip that it is hard to narrow down so I will be posting several blogs with photos. Our team consisted of 24 medical personnel including a dentist, a surgeon and a vet. For the men that would not come and see the doctors and nurses the vet team gave us another option of reaching out to them. In total we saw 3163 medical patients, performed 26 surgeries, gave glasses out to 365 patients, 18220 prescriptions were given out, 223 dental patients (253 extractions, 7 fillings, 46 exams, 16 cleanings, and 1 surgery) and our vet team saw: 1238 cows, 1200 goats, 235 sheep, 239 dogs, 11 donkeys, 5 cats, 11 chickens, and 1 rabbit. All of this resulted in 1981 people praying to receive Christ and the start of 7 new churches.

The area of Tanzania we were working in was in the northwestern part of the country and bordering into the Seregeti. The villages were very remote and mostly without electricity. We worked out of school rooms and school yards under the trees with tarps hung to protect us from the sun. Any of the buildings you see are the school buildings. We also encountered results of Voodoo and traditional herbal remedies. Many of these are makings left strange patterns on the body. The boy in this photo had markings around his left

nipple on his chest to protect to heal his heart of "running fast". All of his life he has had episodes of rapid heart rate and the Voodoo medicine doctor thought that there was a spell on his heart and made the markings to disspell the curse. Yet his heart still races and he is left with scares. His father brings him to us for some answers and hope that we can help. The motto for our trip was "Bringing hope to a hurting world". I am hoping that we left this family feeling that we gave them some hope. Physically and spiritually.