Everyone is back in Minnesota now, recalling with fondness the 85 degree weather in southeast Asia.
The team didn't have much of a chance to blog while in Cambodia, so we'll be catching up now.
This photo was taken on Thanksgiving. There were 22 people at the Copelands' home, including several local missionaries. Teresa made pecan pies, there was turkey, dressing, sweet potatoes, cranberries, and so much more.
Someone even made personal name cards for each guest.
Someone even made personal name cards for each guest.
After dinner, some of the kids did the dishes. No dishwasher here.
Dr. Kent is a busy guy, always thinking of new projects, and interested in many things.
Here he is playing chess with his son, CJ. CJ is homeschooled (as are his siblings), and is a junior. Chris keeps plenty busy teaching their 5 kids.
Kent enjoys a few horticultural projects, experimenting with different plants that might help the farmers in Cambodia.Here he has created a unique fence, with the vertical part being living trees. There's no Fleet Farm here to buy fencing materials, and if you don't do something, your pigs and chickens will run away.
Here he is loading up some hay to take back home for mulch.
Greg brought the parts for an egg incubator to Cambodia. Kent has plans for many omelettes!
We visited with this family on the same trip that we got the hay. They are active members of the Poipet church. He lost his leg from a land mine.
Now to the CAMA Clinic in Poipet.
It looks like Kent and Greg are at a radio station here, but those are really Geiger Counters. Greg brought them along from Minnesota, a vital safety component of the nuclear medicine program.
And this is the part of the laboratory where Rick worked. These machines do blood chemistries. He brought extra parts for them, and callibrated them for the many tests that Kent does. The supplies that needed to be refrigerated on the trip to Cambodia will be used here.
Here's the exterior of the clinic building. That white vehicle with the red light on the roof is the ambulance. Rick had the chance to ride along on an ambulance run. They picked up a homeless man and dropped him off at the local hospital. The primitive emergency room there wasn't much, and without family there to help, there would probably be no meals for him. Back in Minnesota Rick volunteers at the Zumbrota Ambulance, and has dropped off many patients at
St. Mary's Emergency Room. What a contrast... and so sad.
Here's the sign for the clinic.
CAMA stands for Compassion and Mercy Associates.