Getting ready for Nicaragua 2012

The Columbus Mission Team is returning to Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua in Feb. 2012 for a 13 day mission trip. The team consists of Dean & Carolyn Athey, Karl & Sue Tillinghast, Jody Dreifurst, Sherilyn Haswell, and Melissa Shemek. We are again partnering with the team from California that we have teamed up with the last two trips. Their team consists of a general surgeon, an ENT surgeon, an anesthesiologist, several nurses, children's ministry people and other support people. Suzie Smith from California and Keveta Andersen from Puerto Cabezas will once again be our work and spiritual leaders. We have begun to assemble our supplies. Although we do not have a surgeon on the Columbus team this year we are still taking a lot of  supplies, medications etc. Our team and the team from California have developed a very close relationship with the staff @ the hospital we work @ in Nicaragua. We actually hire some of their staff to work with us while we are there. Since we take over one of the hospital wards and an operating room some of these people would otherwise be unemployed while we are there. We ask that you keep us in your thoughts and prayers as we  prepare for our next mission.     Thanks. Dean