The Georges in Peru
Back in Arequipa
We are back in our home in Arequipa after an uneventful trip. No one even asked me if I had the proper paperwork to travel with my children! The memorial service went well. I hesitate to say it was 'great' as I can't find 'great' or 'super' in my adjective box at the moment.…
MoreYou need an authorization to leave the country!
Peru goes to great effort to reduce child trafficking. One of the rules they've instituted is that minor children not accompanied by both parents cannot leave the country without a notarized authorization from the parent that isn't traveling with them. This is probably good to keep an…
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Happy Sunday School Teacher Day!
Despite being our first Mother's Day and Amy and my 23rd anniversary, yesterday wasn't a bad day. If anything I felt that we could relax a bit, even though we needed to pack up for our trip back to the USA. We decided to go to church last night, risking experiencing emotional Mother's…
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I've never seen it done like that before
I thought it was a pretty normal funeral. Actually, everything went splendidly. But it was quite different from a normal Peruvian funeral, so it took a lot of patient explaining that we were doing things the way we did. In Peru, when someone dies, usually the body is left in the…
MoreMemorial Service in Omaha Saturday May 14th
Amy's memorial service in Omaha will be on Saturday, May 14th at 11 am at Christ Community Church (404 S. 108th Ave).
MoreAmy George 1968 - 2016
With a heavy heart I must make this post, this afternoon at 3:45 pm, Amy went to heaven. The funeral will be Saturday at 11 am at Enfoque Familiar near our home.Visitors will be received tomorrow from 10 am until 5 pm at our home.Thanks for your prayers,Allen and the kids
MoreDoing poorly
Since yesterday afternoon Amy has been doing poorly. Her O2Sats are around 70 right now (for non-medical people that tells how well her hemoglobin is carrying oxygen and 70 is terrible, even at our altitude) and she can't swallow and is really gurgly when she breathes. I skipped the…
MoreBattle of the Bed Sores
Since Amy can't move, she's susceptible to bed sores (the pressure of one's own body weight can reduce the circulation so much that it damages the skin, especially over pointier parts of the body). About a week ago, I mentioned here in my blog that her right heel was hurting and it was the…
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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.