Danny Estévão Bring Vision To Life – Angola 2015
Friday, September 11th, 2015 |
Lubango Evangelical Medical Center was for decades only a dream in the hearts of Pastor José Abias, Dr. Stephen Foster, and leaders of the Angolan Association of Evangelicals. The vision was substantial: within Africa’s poorest nation to create a center ...
I’m Coughing Blood Again – Angola 2015
Friday, September 4th, 2015 |
“I’m coughing blood again.” Moses gasped for breath, his chest muscles visibly contracting with each respiration. The starved figure of this man of twenty-six bespoke of profound malnutrition, infirmity, or both. His chest examination revealed distant, wet sounds divulging deep ...
Mother And Newborn In Peril – Angola 2015
Friday, August 28th, 2015 |
“I’m in labor, and the umbilical cord just fell out.” Utterly frightened, the mother Gilhermina approached the home of Donna Foster on a ranch here in rural Angola. Within moments, Donna and teenage daughter Meghan, loaded Gilhermina in their truck ...
Diagnosis Under Stress – Angola 2015
Friday, August 21st, 2015 |
"My chest hurts severely and the pounding of my heart is relentless," exclaimed a woman of forty whom I met in the emergency department. She proceeded to describe how she also felt fever and burning throughout her body, along with ...
Shock And Distress – Angola 2015
Friday, August 14th, 2015 |
Shock. Arriving in Angola inevitably distresses my soul. Though I lived here for two year and have return annually for fourteen more, reentry into this place of paucity continues to unmask any temptation towards complacency over the world's affairs. Were ...
