Our Team - Part One

With just three days left until our team leaves for Oaxaca, I am continually blessed by the generosity of others. 

Yesterday Maddy unpacked 152 toothbrushes and put them in little plastic baggies that we will give to children we encounter. This is in addition to the 100 or so that have were donated by a dentist in Silverton and individuals.

Together, we were able to raise nearly $1,400 that will not only pay for travel expenses, but medications and other needs we may encounter. I also truly appreciate your prayers as we get ready to go.

One of the biggest questions I am asked is who is going on this mission? I'll try to introduce them along the way as I get to know them. One person I love to work with because her heart is so full of love for the people she helps, is Dr. Page Griffin Jossi.

Page works as a family physician in Woodburn through Silverton Hospital and will be one of our docs. She is fluent in Spanish, which is a tremendous blessing to the team. This will be her seventh mission and her second with a medical team. I worked with Dr. Page in Guatemala in Sept. 2007 where she helped treat hundreds of women and children. While she was there, she was able to visit Carlos, the baby her and her husband Pete were in the process of adopting from that country and who now lives with them.

This trip will carry special significance for her because half of the patients she treats at her clinic in Woodburn come from the Oaxaca region of Mexico. In preparation for this mission, she chose a verse from the Bible book of John to carry her through.

"These are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name." John 20:31. 

"Just as John's purpose was to bring people to faith, I am praying that through our ministry of love through providing medical care, we will encourage the people we are serving to know truth and put their faith in Jesus," Page stated.


Thanks again and keep coming back. I am really looking forward to showing you know good God is to his people.
Sheldon