—TESTIMONY— Village Chief, Hateka, Ghana: “For over 50 years we had no good drinking water. We drank from stagnant streams and walked for miles in search of water. We suffered from many waterborne diseases. However, since you supplied our village with the well and clean water, nobody has complained of any of those diseases. Thank you, and God bless you!”

A gentle touch accompanies medical attention as Ecuadorian physician Dr. Paulyna Orellana treats a child at an orphanage in Haiti. Interested in missions since childhood, the doctor accompanied an Ecuadorian medical team to Haiti in July.

Workers install a well in the Ecuadorian village of Castug Tungurahuilla, giving residents their first their first constant supply of clean water.

Former HCJB Global Hands clinical pathologist Dr. Ron Guderian checks a patient from some remote islands off the Panamanian coast.

•  Served about 600,000 people in Ecuador through the two Vozandes hospitals and community development ministries in the country.

•  Sent two medical teams from Ecuador to Haiti to help at Samaritan’s Purse’s cholera treatment centers more than a year after a powerful earthquake devastated the nation.

•  Made two visits to Haiti by Ecuadorian water engineers to repair almost 100 water wells and assist Lifewater Canada and OMS with a water and sanitation project proposal.

•  Saw more than 2,200 medical and dental patients at 14 mobile medical clinics held throughout Ecuador.

•  Experienced significant improvement in the financial status of Hospital Vozandes-Quito and received positive results from the hospital’s social security contract.

•  Added a satellite medical clinic in the Quito suburb of El Inca.

•  Continued working with Partners in Hope’s HIV/AIDS clinic in Malawi despite increased risk due to political turmoil in the country this summer.

•  Held a first summer medical internship program in Africa with partner Theovision in Accra, Ghana, with five young people from the U.S. and U.K.; saw more than 1,500 patients in seven different communities.

•  Observed growth of the HCJB Global Hands initiatives in the Europe/Eurasia region, sending physicians from Central Asia to a Christian medical conference this summer; made plans to launch medical ministries in the area with an HCJB Global Hands physician.

•  Boosted recruitment and networking as Dr. Richard Douce attended the CMDA summit in Atlanta, and Drs. Jerry Koleski and Joe Martin attended the Louisville Global Health Missions Conference.

•  Led a church work team to some remote Panamanian islands in an annual outreach, helping drill the area’s first clean water wells.

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