We love getting visitors, especially from Nebraska! This week, 12 Nebraskans came to Peru to help with a medical clinic. Most were optometrists, many of whom visited us in 2006 in Abancay. This time, we partnered with MMI (Medical Ministries International) and went to Puno to see patients. Nearly 1000 patients were given glasses or had teeth pulled or cavities filled!
Dr. Kim Baxter from North Platte, NE seeing a patient with the waiting room in the background.
Thanks for coming!
We are Allen and Mary Beth George from Nebraska and Manitoba respectively. Allen has been serving in Peru with SIM since 2000 when he arrived with his late wife, Amy. Mary Beth has been serving in Peru since 2005. Sarah & Zach are both in their medical residencies in Chicago (Sarah in emergency medicine and Zach in family medicine). Ben is working for Ahlstrom-Munksjö in Taylorville, Illinois. Mia is in her 2nd year studying physical therapy at Loma Linda U. in California. Paul works as a programmer at Epic in Madison, Wisconsin.
The Georges are church planting in Punta de Bombón, a town about about 6000 people on the coast of Peru.