We are safely back in Hawaii since yesterday!  Thank you to all of you for your support and prayers!

We truly had an amazing experience with this medical mission outreach to Cameroon.   This was our second time going to Cameroon with Health Teams international. 

Our team was awesome and we had many memorable moments with them.   We are blessed to have gone to Africa since there are so many physical and spiritual needs there.  God is doing some pretty cool things in Cameroon and many are being taught the Word of God.   We had a chance to see about 3000 patients during our 7 outreach days.  We also had the honor of meeting the Chief of the village as well as the governor "His Excellency" of Bafoussam.     And yes, the little baby that was sick from malaria and pneumonia was doing quite well before we left!  Thanks for your prayers!  

 

We look forward to going again next year!  We are now re-adjusting to the time change(12 hrs) in Hawaii.   I went back to work today and Tara starts school tomorrow. 

I had a chance to look at our new missions clinic building progress and it's looking great!

 

Well, until next time..........

 

We'll be off to Nepal on our next medical mission trip May 16-30, 2009.   

 

check out some of our videos from the trip.

 

Leap of Faith - Cameroon 2009 Video
http://gallery.me.com/caseyculberson#100090

Gag Reel:
http://gallery.me.com/caseyculberson#100079

Hello!

We had an awesome morning of worship this mornining in a authentic Cameroonian church!  One of the team members preached the messaged about "our calling" as Christians. 

She talked about serving in the kingdom.   There was a amazing response from the people!  Tara and I really felth the Spirit of the Lord present in that place.  The Cameroonian Christians have such great hearts and warm smiles.   We were so blessed to be a part of this church service.  We have the rest of the day to rejuvinate for our last 2 days of medical outreach starting tomorrow again.  

We are healthy and doing very well!  I praise the Lord for the work that he is doing here in Cameroon!  Please continue to pray for the people of Cameroon.  

Thank you all for your prayers!   We will upload pictures when we have a chance.  

Blessings,

T and T

Hello again!

 

Today was a great day in the second village just outside of Bafoussam!  We saw a few hundred people doing medical consultations amongst the doctors/nurses.   The dental team saw many people as well as there were a long line of people waiting to have their problems tended to.   Tara was hard at work in the pharmacy today!  Please pray for a man I had a chance to pray for today.  He was suffering for likely gonorrhea and other possible STD's as he shared with me that he had 4 wive's and many other sexual partners.  It was so cool as he wanted to know why we came all the way from America to give medical care.   By the grace of God, I was able to share my testimony with him and share the goodness of God was about!  He was able to recognize in the end that the Lord love's him just as much as me or any of us on the mission team.  He eventually asked to receive Christ into his heart and we ended in a touching prayer!   Please pray for him as he will have to get connected to the local church community/pastors.  

 

A patient that I saw today in the medical clinic was a 4 y ear old boy who was about the developement and size of a 14 month old baby.  He was suffering from Kawashiorkor, a disease caused by severe malnutrition.  Apparently the mother was suffering from a mental illness and was not giving the child food for the past 4 yrs.   He had the typical bloated belly filled with worms and pale appearing skin/eyes due to malaria.   We could only give vitamins and medications for the diseases but are helpless with being sure the child will be fed.  The only hope was that the grandmother who had brought the child to our clinic was taking over care of this child.   My prayer is that he will get the food he needs for proper growth and developement.  

 

Again, we are blessed by the nice weather thus far and the good hotel accomadations that we are staying in !  We have another 4 more days of clinic outreaches!  Tomorrow we return to the same vilage as today.  

 

Prayer requests:

1.  That we continue to stay healthy (from all the interesting foods that we are eating"

2.  That our spiritual tanks will remain full so that we can pour out onto the people here

3.  That the Lord would show us opportunites to share our faith and show His love.

 

Til next time!  Thank you all for your prayers!

 

Tim and Tara

Bonjour!

 

Thank you to all of you for all of your prayers!   I had a chance to follow up on that very sick baby with malaria and pneumonia and he was looking much better.  His fever was completely gone this morning, we was alert/awake, and he was even eating without vomiting for the first time in 3 days.   He will stay another day at the health center that we worked out of and will be watched by the nurse so that the can continue to administer malaria medicines and antibiotics.  The grandmother(the child's caretaker), was so grateful for the medical care and was asking for one of our "crosses" to ear around her neck before we left.  I will send pictures later.  Praise be to God!

 

Today was a very busy day with lots of patients and surgeries.  Tara had the opportunity to be a dentist today and pull lots of teeth!  She pulled 9-10 teeth and was able to do this with 'ease' and all the dentist felt that she was a 'natural'.   Many of the dentist that were working with her kept telling her that it is God's will for her to be a dentist because she was so coordinated and spacially gifted! That would be pretty cool if she became a dentist one day and we continued to do medical missions outreaches to the impoverished world.  

But she will be a full blown RN by May 15!!!! 

 

I had the oportunity to do 5 surgeries with the surgeon on our team.  The highlight was  removing a tumor from a lady's arm the size of a cantelope, and also helped to repair a groin hernia!  It was pretty crazy.....all under local anesthetic.  These Africans are tough cookies!  They are so grateful and appreciate of the operations as they can become very disfiguring for these people.   According to the local doctor, they would never get any of these surgeries done in their life because the cost is prohibitively expensive ;-(  Our prayer is that the love of  Christ  was displayed today.  

 

Pray for tomorrow's outreach as we go to a different village.   We are all doing well and healthy!  We even have our own security/military guys with us for extra protection.  It is very safe here!

 

Until next time!

Tim and Tara

Bonjour Everyone from Cameroon!

 

just an addition to Tara's email......from a different perspective...

 

We had our very first missions medical outreach today in a village located about 5 km outside of Bafoussem.  There were many people waiting to be seen today in the medical and dental clinic but Pastor John Ngoe had a great opportunity to share the gospel with the hundreds of people that were waiting.   Please pray for a 14 month boy that I saw today.  He was suffering from a severe case of malaria (falciparum), a very deadly strain of malaria here in Africa.  He was very dehydrated and also suffering from pneumonia  severe respiratory distress, and febrile seizures.   Our medical team workde together with local nurses to resusitate the baby with IV fluid, anti malaria meds and IV antibiotics.  He will be staying in a local health clinic overnight to continue with IV medication and is still looking very ill.  Please pray that he recovers from this serious illness and that the Lord would do a great miracle.   Malaria is one of the biggest 'preventable' killers of young babies and children here in Africa.    We will return to this same vilage tomorrow am to see more patients and to check on this young baby.   We have several surgeries planned for tomorrow, so please also pray that these surgeries go well and the there are no complications....and that people would be healed.     

 

Tara and I are grateful to be here in Cameroon, and are very grateful for all of your prayers.   Please continue to pray for these people in Cameroon as our hearts break to see the many people who suffer from so many preventable diseases.    There is also lots of spiritual darkness here as many of the people worship animals and inanimate objects/statues.   Thank you for your partnership! 

 

sorry, the internet connection is too slow...I tried to upload picutres but could not. 

 

Tim and Tara