The Georges in Peru
Laziest Presenter Ever
Saturday, I attended a conference on EKGs. I have to do 50 hours a year of continuing medical education (CME) to keep my Family Medicine certification in the USA and this helps me fulfill some of my 'live hours' (I can't do it all by just reading medical journals). Plus it is a way to…
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Wedding Time!
No, not our wedding! Saturday, Mary Beth and I went to the wedding of a friend of hers that she met through her camp ministry. Since we've been planning our own wedding for the end of December, we took special notice of how things are done here and how our own wedding will look. …
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It's Puppet Season!
Puppet season began yesterday! 'What is puppet season?' the gentle reader might be asking. Does one shoot them? No. Not usually. Instead, each year, Mary Beth puts together a team of interested people to write a script, make the puppets and create the backgrounds for…
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Just how tall is she?
We heard through the grapevine that when Mary Beth and I were at church in Omaha in July some murmured, "How tall is she?!" In December, before we were dating, we put a ruler across our heads as we stood back to back in the kitchen and one of the kids announced, "She's about 1 centimeter…
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"If you leave him here, he'll just be abandoned and thrown into a common grave," the social assistence employee told me. I didn't really believe her, but I didn't think taking Alejandro back to his home from the hospital was going to be much better than her threat. His home has no…
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O, Canada!
We are in Canada! We actually arrived on Monday, but I haven't had time to update the blog until now. We are taking advantage of the kids' school's winter break to introduce Mary Beth to my family in Nebraska and South Dakota and for the rest of us to meet her family in Manitoba. …
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We'll cross that bridge when we get to it
The road between my house and Mary Beth's apartment has been under construction for about a year. Yesterday was a happy day because they opened up the bridge between our two homes! It took me only 9 minutes to get home from her house yesterday afternoon instead of the 20-30 minutes that…
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Can I go swimming, Mommy?
A couple of weeks ago, Mary Beth and I went to a wedding that was held at the 'Club de Abogados' (the lawyers' social club) in Arequipa. The wedding was outdoors, next to the swimming pool. I love to swim, so I could relate to these kids that wanted to take off their hot, stuffy wedding…
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Huntington's Chorea
This week we went on a medical campaign to the nearby Colca Canyon. I say 'we' because the kids were on school break at the same time as the campaign, so they and Mary Beth joined me! This is an annual trip that is organized by Medical Ministries International (MMI) and we were part of…
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Stuck on the Train Tracks
Today, Mary Beth and I were going over to Alejandro's house to paint another wall. Someone had visited him after we painted one of his walls last week and was so impressed by how improved it looked that they gave him $15 to buy another bucket of paint to continue the job! On the way…
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About Us
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.
What are we doing?
The Georges are church planting in Punta de Bombón, a town about about 6000 people on the coast of Peru.