Lord of our Schedule Several years ago, Steve was beginning to wrap up his time in Bolivia. He was waiting on his last patient. It’s a great feeling when you are near the end of a trip, and you have been able to help everyone you set out to help. Nothing left undone. He knew […]
And So We Fight… Abby (not her real name) was begging in the marketplace when our friend Jimmy saw her. Jimmy had just received a brand new leg from Filadelfia, and when he saw Abby he knew he had to tell her about this ministry. She rode in on her wheelchair, coming down the side
About seven hours away from our clinic in Cochabamba lies a village in the rugged terrain of the Bolivian highlands, or “altiplano”, where Agustin calls home. Twenty years ago, his village was engaged in a war with a neighboring village, and he was shot in the leg. Since there were no hospitals, clinics, or for
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If you are considered to have “two left feet” then you have somewhat of a problem. That saying was true for us recently, although not in the sense that you would think, but we most definitely had a foot problem. In Bolivia, we rely heavily on donated used parts and materials from prosthetic clinics in
