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Mission trips are the heart of what we do as an organization.
We hope the information contained here will be a help to you
in considering and pursuing ways to offer your dental expertise
to the needy around the world. For a mission application,
equipment availability of if you just have questions, please
contact the CDS Home Office at 563-578-8887 or cdssent@netins.net
If you find a mission that you would like to be a part of,
please contact the mission organization responsible for the
trip. CDS only advertises available trips and has no
part in the planning of the trip.
CDS can assist with a CDS member with their equipment needs.
However, it takes a lot of preparation to have a successful
mission trip. Mail and even phone connections often take weeks
to get through. So when preparing for a mission trip, contact
the home office first. Give us the time to help you. Remember,
it takes six months to a year to plan a mission trip.
Contact
the Home Office at 563-578-8887 for a CDS mission application.
The travel date of the mission trip you wanted may
have already taken place. Many mission organizations repeat
their trips. You should contact them for future trips.
Trip Schedules
Pedregales Tijuana, Mexico
Church: Calvary Chapel Pico Rivera
Date: August 20-23, 2009 (4 Days & 3 Nights)
Location: Calvary Chapel Pedregales Tijuana, Mexico
Goal: God willing-Children's VBS, Dental, Medical and
Optometry Services. Please pray for much needed hair cuts
& shoes for the children.
Please contact Edith Valadez at mykdstchr@hotmail.com
if interested.
Nicaragua
Our
church, Community of Grace in Centennial, Colorado is going
on a mission trip to Nicaragua from Aug 8-15, they are in
need of a Christian Dentist for their medical team. If you
have a dentist interested in going on this trip, the point
of contact for the trip is Eric Paulsen, his email is eric@masayamarket.com.
I
went on a humanitarian mission to El Salvador almost 2 years
ago, with the Air National Guard. It was both an enjoyable
and rewarding experience.
Pat O’Lane, a dental assistant with a medical
unit in the Buckley Air National Guard
Kenya – Pediatric Dentist needed
We are looking for Pediatric Dentist to join a few of our
summer medical mission teams to Kenya. There are always hundreds
of children at every clinic. Please review the story below
and kindly forward to your members for consideration.
Thanks
Steve James CRNA
President/Founder
Kenyarelief.org
New clinic next step at Kenya orphanage
Sunday, November 30, 2008
By STEVE DOYLE
Times Staff Writer steve.doyle@htimes.com
Cullman's Steve James looking forward to facility
Steve James got a not-so-subtle reminder last week why his
humanitarian work in Kenya is so important. A hungry 3-year-old
girl was left at the gate of James' Marindi Children's Home
of Grace Orphanage, which has become a rare bright spot in
one of the world's poorest places. Even though the 103-bed
orphanage was full, James took the little girl in. Saving
kids from starvation, disease and other sad endings is why
the Cullman resident opened the orphanage - and why he spends
every waking moment thinking of ways to make it bigger, better,
and more meaningful.
"It would be a sin for me to turn away," James
said last week. "I'd like America to realize the reason
that we have so much is to give back."
The 53-year-old cancer survivor flung open the doors to the
orphanage on Easter weekend 2003 as a memorial to his late
daughter, Brittney. Ever since, Alabamians have been jumping
on board to help: eye doctors; dentists; missionaries; surgeons.
James, who met many of his supporters while working as a
nurse anesthetist at Huntsville Hospital, has already scheduled
eight trips to Kenya next year because so many people want
to volunteer. And there's plenty to be done, including making
sure a new medical clinic beside the orphanage is ready for
patients.
The 6,000-square-foot clinic in Marindi, largely financed
by Huntsville businessman Ian Panton and his wife, Linda,
is far nicer than the town's three existing hospitals. It
will be stocked with more than $500,000 worth of equipment
donated by Huntsville Hospital, Crestwood Medical Center and
Mission Outreach, a nonprofit that sends used medical gear
to developing countries.
James envisions the clinic repairing hernias, club feet and
other health problems that typically go untreated in Kenya,
contributing to the country's low life expectancy - 52 years
for a man, 55 years for a woman. By comparison, men born in
the United States have a life expectancy of 73 years, women
79 years.
"I think this will be the most modern medical center
within 200 miles," said James, who now works at HealthSouth
Lakeshore Rehabilitation Hospital in Birmingham. "I can
see us by 2010 being able to treat children with cancers and
lymphomas."
The clinic plans to charge 90 cents per visit, equivalent
to about a day's pay in western Kenya. Dr. Heather Estopinal,
a Huntsville ophthalmologist, traveled to Africa with James
last summer to help restore eyesight to villagers with severe
cataracts. Most had never seen an eye doctor, she said.
"It's almost like you're the answer to their prayers,"
Estopinal said Wednesday. "It's a wonderful mission."
Like James, Estopinal thinks big when it comes to the clinic:
She wants to send American eye specialists to Kenya every
three months to fix cataracts and other vision problems before
they cause blindness.
"In developing countries, you see elderly patients that
just go totally blind and have to use sticks to get around,"
Estopinal said. "That's almost a death sentence."
Because of the shaky economy, James said he expects 2009
to be a lean year for his nonprofit agency, KenyaRelief.org.
Each child at the orphanage has an American sponsor who pays
$75 a month to cover their food, shelter, schooling and medical
care. Estopinal and her husband, anesthesiologist Temple Estopinal,
sponsor a 13-year-old boy named George who was living on the
streets.
"These children are so grateful for the opportunity
to have clothing, three meals a day and a safe place to stay,"
she said. "They're regarded as the luckiest kids in the
region."
From humble beginnings in a refurbished church, the orphanage
has blossomed into a 21-acre compound with dormitories, homes
for visiting relief workers, the clinic and a dining hall
that James calls "the prettiest building in town."
The cafeteria is named for the late Cullman-based Christian
singer Whit Warren, an early supporter of James' relief work.
James employs 30 townspeople and two American missionaries
from Rome, Ga., who manage the orphanage in his absence.
More orphanage-related projects are on the horizon: a veterinary
hospital to care for the farm animals that rural Kenyans depend
on for survival; and a vocational school to prepare teenagers
for life after the orphanage. Twenty kids will graduate from
the home next year, but there are 80,000 more homeless youngsters
in the region who need help.
"I'm proud of what we've done so far," James said.
"God's amazing, and I think you become part of that amazement
when you give yourself to his plan. To reach the fatherless
is the very thing he would be doing if he was here."
Steve James CRNA
President / Founder
Office: 256-739-3975
Cell: 256-507-0217
sjames@kenyarelief.org
Kenyarelief.org
316 1st Ave. S. E.
Cullman, Al. 35055
To learn more click the link below.
www.rizonfilms.com/africa/africa.html
Viet Nam Trip Announcement!
Vets With A Mission www.vetswithamission.org
is pleased to announce its next available humanitarian team
trip to Viet Nam!
The dates are September 16 – October 2, 2009. The team will
go to Hue/Hong Ha, Hue Thua Thien Province, in central Viet
Nam.
The price to participate on the team is $3,389 from San Francisco
per person based on double occupancy. Team members are responsible
for getting to and from San Francisco, but discounted “add-on
fares” for domestic flights are available. The $3,389 price
includes:
- Economy-class flight
from San Francisco to Ho Chi Minh City/Saigon (via Taipei,
Taiwan) and Ho Chi Minh City/Saigon to San Francisco (via
Taipei, Taiwan).
- One flight in Viet Nam
from Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City to Hue/Phu Bai and Da Nang
to Ho Chi Minh City.
- All airport-hotel-airport
transfers.
- All hotels in Viet Nam
(4 or 5 Star rated) with daily breakfast.
- Lunch is included on
days the team works in Hong Ha village.
- All team ground transportation
(by private bus and/or vans).
- Team farewell dinner/bar-be-que
event in Da Nang.
- Visa, processing, all
travel arrangements, and services.
This humanitarian team is scheduled to work 7 days in Hong
Ha, approximately 40 kilometers west of Hue, in the local
village building known as the Floyd Olsen Memorial Clinic.
The FOMC was built in honor and memory of an Army helicopter
pilot shot down in April, 1968, who remains MIA. This clinic/village
is located just east of the Laotian-Viet Nam border, south
of Lang Vei and Khe Sanh, north of the A Shau Valley, and
in an area of both Kinh/Vietnamese and ethnic minority people/Montagnards
(Bru).
Attached
is a team application.
(75K)
Complete it, bring your trip payments up to date according
to the schedule, and mail it to Vets With A Mission. If you
have any questions, please email
or call 803-405-9926 at your convenience.
Dental Clinics
Guatemala
When you serve as a dentist in a week-long extraction clinic with Maya-Mesoamerica
Mission in Guatemala the challenges and opportunities for
personal growth are a world away from the North American or
European office practice. You may pull teeth on day
one at 8,000’ on the side of a volcano in a remote Mayan village.
The next day’s clinic might be at our jungle mission, followed
by a clinic on the Pacific coast or a clinic serving the urban
poor in the highland city of Quetzaltenango.
Wherever the clinic, they are all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ
reaching out with His love to the entire community at no charge
to the patients. We host teams of one or two dentists
with one or two support personnel. During your stay
you will not only serve the dental needs of the poor in Guatemala,
but become familiar with the overall ministry and missionaries
of Maya-Mesoamerica Mission. We are presently organizing clinics
for 2009 and there are many opportunities still open for you
and your team.
A typical clinic cost is about $800.00 per participant plus your roundtrip
airfare from your departure city. For more information
on whom we are at Maya-Mesoamerica Mission please browse our
website.
Yours in Christ,
David Doss
President, Maya-Mesoamerica Mission
dossdave@yahoo.com
www.mayamission.org
Guatemala
Final Harvest Ministry
Jeff & Christa Mills have been working in Guatemala for
the past 14 years and have established 2 healthy churches
that are still growing strong.
Jeff is an Evangelist sees not only the spiritual side of
the problems but also the needs for these people.
His cry is for doctors and dentists to come to this town and
minister to them both in soul and body.
Their website is: www.finalharvestministries.com
Their email is: JeffMills@pobox.com
See our latest photos at: http://www.picasaweb.google.com/JeffG
Peru
Our church is Betesda Church,
located about 10 miles outside the city in a small village
called La Legua. We have been having for the last two years
a medical campaign. The greatest need at this time is dental
care and vision care. The children we have seen are in good
health, but many of them need dental work (adults as well).
Next August from the 1st to
the 14th, we are planning our next campaign, but would love
to have 2 or 3 dentists be a part of the team. The costs
would be for a one-week mission $450.00, two-week mission
$650.00 (this does not include the airfare from the states
to Lima, Peru.
If you would like more information, please contact
Jonathon Edwards Misssionary through Elim Fellowship Lima,
NY www.elimfellowship.org
Betesda Ministries
La Legua, Catacaos
PERU
betesdaministriesperu@gmail.com
NEW ADDRESS Please use the following for mail delivery
Jonathon Edwards 719 Russell Avenue Johnstown, PA 15902
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A UNIQUE DENTAL OPPORTUNITY
Operation Mobilization Ship
We need volunteer Dentists to serve on an Operation Mobilization
Ship from one month to a year or longer providing quality
long lasting dentistry. The working conditions are very
good and everything is furnished. The cost for a short
term trip is the airfare. Dentists will be able to serve
in clinics on shore with portable equipment to the needy in
certain ports.
The opportunities to experience and interact with other
cultures along side the motivated crew on board are rewarding
and exciting.
Contact Dr. David Carter for more information. Email
dncarter@frii.com , Phone 970
4614955
Purpose Africa
We have been a bit quiet during our preparation of Purposeful
Africa, but we are about ready for full release and would
like to have your input on some various needs and ideas.
You may recall that we are providing a spiritual purpose to
Africa, of your own organization’s design in a two week
window, aboard a 450 foot ship. The very nice ship will be
used for transportation of supplies you will need along with
250 people who will mentor, educate, train, and serve in their
choice of six West African countries. Upon completion of this
spiritual act of worship, we will all return home changed
and movedready to commit our gifts to God’s purposes.
Highlighting the needs of orphans (or whatever i.e., radio
broadcasting, business as a mission, water projects, micro-finance
systems, and medical/dental needs) is a huge part of what
we want to accomplish.
Here are a few ways to engage with Purposeful Africa as we
continue to move forward with this incredible opportunity:
- Please visit our new website in 1st launch status, www.purposefulafrica.org.
- To request a webinar with me, please click
here.
- Follow us on Twitter.
- Join our Facebook
group.
- Please forward this email to a friend, ministry, or church
partner that you may think would also like to engage in
this opportunity.
- We are beginning an online forum dedicated to the orphans
of West Africa (West Africa radio broadcasting, business
as a mission, water projects, micro-finance systems, and
medical/dental needs). If you feel called to help us,
please go
here. We are looking for people knowledgeable in these
areas of need in West Africa who will assist those who also
feel called to get engaged prior to the trip which is in
the fall of 2010.
We have multiple areas of engagement. We very much would
like for you to be involved with us in this endeavor. It cannot
be done without the unity of the body of Christ, the ministries,
and the churches. Together we can do all things through Christ
Jesus.
I look forward to your thoughts,
Lee
Lee Elrod | Development
lee@livingpassages.org
Purposeful Africa | Changing Their World by Changing Yours
Phone: (888) 771-8717 | Website: http://www.PurposefulAfrica.org
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use of supporters' logos.pdf
PA Online Brochure.pdf
Purposeful
Africa Churches & Ministry Deposits Final.pdf
Mexico
Christian Hands In Action (CHIA)
Short term (3-4 days) trips
for medical/dental/optometric missions primarily into
northern MX, though we've done a number of longer trips into
Central and South America. We have two
dentists on our staff but are always looking for other
dentists around this country and Canada to go with us If any
of your members or their friends are looking for Third World
mission opportunities without having
to spend a lot of time and money, CHIA is probably a unique
ministry that would fit the bill.
Look at our website: www.chiamissions.org
or contact John M. Sherman, MD at 915-526-0734 for further
information.
Vets With A Mission is announcing its next
scheduled Vietnam humanitarian team trip!
The next available trip after this 2008 Da Nang team
trip is one to Dong Ha, Quang Tri Province, September
17 – October 2, 2009.
"Chuck"
USNR, B549649, Attack Squadron One Ninety-Five (VA-195)
the "Dambusters," USS Oriskany '69, USS Kitty Hawk
& Da Nang (Republic of South Vietnam) '70-'71, Kitty Hawk
again spring '72.
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