Made it safely to Korea !

Hey all!  It's 2am and we made it to Korea!  Just had our late night dinner.  

Will update blog with more pictures!

Thanks for all of your prayers !  It was an awesome outreach and again a fruitful time :).  

Nessing pictures

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Tim Tamang :)

We made it safely back to syafru after a 6 hr adventure this morning.  We are heading back to Kathmandu now.  

Thank you for your prayers !!

Dr jack 

Nessing

Wow!  Despite some physical challenges with several of our team members coming down with gastrointestinal illnesses we are doing fine!   We did have to give IV fluids to 2 of our own team members due to dehydration , but everyone is back up and going strong again.   Thank you for your prayers !   Even with those those setbacks , we were able to see over 200 medical and dental patients in the last 2 days in Nessing! 

    It was a huge blessing to see a baby and mom that Beka and I helped during labor 2 years ago.  We didn't think that this baby was going to make it out alive due to the mothers poor condition.  It was so good to see a nice big healthy baby 2 yeas later :).   I can see why we had such a hard time trying to deliver the baby ....he has a BIG head!!!!   

We will be having clinic this am in Nessing and then house visits for prayer and encouragement this afternoon.   

Pray that we finish strong and that God's love overflows into the people here.   They are the most precious , humble and grateful people I have ever met.   

Will have to post pictures later due to poor internet cell connection.  Thanks for all of your prayers !!!!!!

"Strength": by Jon

May 24 blog

The people here are so amazingly strong! Not only physically but spiritually. Today, we were privileged to witness both of these strengths. 

The first - the spiritual strength - was displayed during the Nepali Church service. Though there was a lot we couldn't understand, one can definitely feel the Holy Spirit present when they are singing their beautiful songs, praying their sweet prayers, and in delivering their wonderful sermons. They LOVE our Heavenly Father and it shows in their eyes and in their smiles. We washed the feet of the village leaders and spiritual leaders, just as Jesus washed the Disciples' feet, to demonstrate to them we are here to serve them and to love them. They had prepared yellow silk neckerchiefs for each of us to thank us and to bless us in our travels which they have to us at the end of the service. Then, we went up the river where they built a small dam to have a pool to baptize those who had come to know Christ as their savior. We baptized a total of 8 men, women, and children. 

After that, we got to experience their remarkable physical strength and agility as we hiked to Nessing. They literally carried almost every pack of ours along with huge bags of rice, plates, water, medical equipment, and other supplies over a treacherous 5 mile hike. They do this by strapping the load to their head and carrying it on their back - each person carrying easily 1.5 times their body weight. Not only do they carry a ridiculous amount of weight, but they move so quickly with that weight. It's mind boggling. Wow!

What an amazing blessing this has been and continues to be! We cannot wait to share this experience with family and friends soon! 

God Bless 

- Jon 

Words from jack

I am sick now. Praise Jesus!

It may not seem like the best idea to launch into a post about how I'm *not* up and contributing to the mission the Lord has called us on, but hey, the truth is I'm rocking a GI infection right now that has me laid out horizontal. I'm on Cipro and electrolytes and am eagerly looking forward to standing up and walking around...but not today. I'm beat down for now.
BUT I'm in Nessing with a great team (praise the Lord) of Americans, Nepalese (from all over Nepal), and even a Canadian. Because of my illness I've been gifted with an outpouring of love and care from everyone around me, which is deeply precious to me (praise the Lord!)--and wouldn't be available if I wasn't.  Because of my illness the Lord has another opportunity to bring healing, personally,  into *my* life (not just observing someone else's) through the prayers and skill of my friends here and brothers and sisters in Christ. 

I'll get better. But how I get there is the delicious part.

I think sometimes bad things happen so that the Lord can have an opportunity to demonstrate His power through the faithfulness of the servants He calls. And if there's one thing I can vouch for about the team around us, it's that they are *definitely* faithful to the Lord's calling. 

Don't get me wrong-I would love to be free of this thing-and it will happen-but until then I'm excited to see what the Lord does.

Aloha

Jack

Gatlang day #2

Today is the second day of medical clinic in Gatlang. I have been on intake duty with my good friends Mingmar, Lakpa, and Kapche. I understand a few words but sometimes it's hard to tell if they are speaking Tamang, Nepali, or English. The doorway is crazy, it reminds me of working at boots and kimos except no one really speaks English and there are millions of flies and a few pungent odors. It is amazing to see God's work being done despite the language barrier. Thank you for your continuous prayer and support. Aloha and jaimashi to all. Joey 

Lakpa--chiring---is the man above that actually passed away today.  

He had been suffering with liver failure due to hepatitis B for over 4 years.  

We were called to his house in the early morning to help with his condition , but after looking over his medical papers and seeing his condition, there was very little we could do medically to "cure him".   His abdomen was severely swollen and he was hardly conscious when we saw him.   According to the church leaders he was a "nominal Christian".   We did have an opportunity to pray and encourage this man in his relationship with Christ.  Yes we did contend for God's healing over him.  But we also prayed for God to give him peace and joy as he appeared to be transitioning.    He did appear to have the Lords peace over him after our time of prayer.   He nodded with his hands folded together and said "dhanyabat , Jaimashi" which translates to "thank you , Jesus' Victory".  He then closed his eyes and appeared to nod off to sleep( picture above).  Please pray for the son and the rest of the family as they are not Christians.   Pray that they would have God's peace upon them and would feel His tangible love and grace.     Tim

We saw over 100 patients combined in dental , medical and optical clinic.  It was a very busy day but the team did an awesome job!   After clinic was finished (about 6pm ) a group of us went for house visits....until about 8 :30pm......it was truly a fruitful day......to be continued.  

Gatlang Clinic

We had a great night if rest at Hotel sky in Syafru besi!  We are always taken care if by Lakpa's wife and her hospitality is always off the scales.   We had an awesome drive up the mountain in the 4x4 jeeps!   Even though it was my 10 th time up these mountains I can't ever seem to get over the magnificence and beauty of these Himalayan mountains!   I literally teared up and got that "Holy spirit chicken skin " as we went up the mountains.  The mountain peaks were the clearest they have ever been in all the times I have been here.    Words or pictures just cannot do it justice.  

When we arrived in Gatlang, we were warmly welcomed by the Gatlang church members with fresh flower leis and flowers!  It was the most special welcome yet!  It brought several of us to tears(including myself).  They had apparently hiked up the mountain to the jungle to collect the beautiful flowers ....it was truly touching and something I will always remember!  

There was also a line of people that had been waiting to be seen for medical and problems.   We had a very successful first day if clinic with 3 medical providers (Beka , dexter, Tim ), a dentist(bill) , and optical station!  

Tera, jack and Laura jumped right in as medical assistants/nurses!   Jon jumped in as a dentist!  Joey was our triage/intake man!    

We assisted a 7 year old female who had a fever, dehydration , and lethargy.   Tera thankfully got an IV line placed on the first try so that we could infuse saline to rehydrate this poor young girl.   After about 30 minutes she perked up and even cracked a smile for us.   

We had a small medical emergency later in the afternoon.   We made a house visit to see Pastor Prem's wife , Canchimaya , who had been very sick with possible typhoid fever.   She had been treated with multiple courses of antibiotics and medications with no improvement.  Tera gratefully got an iv in her and we infused a liter if saline and gave in injection of antibiotics and prayed the Lords healing over her.   Please pray for God to heal her as she was very sad that she was too weak to walk down to the church to visit with our team.     

We woke up to a beautiful sunrise in Gatlang this am(Friday).   We have a full day of clinic today.