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Cambodia

Ross, a PA student from North Carolina, me, and Peter, a medical student from California on top of Angkor Wat. We might look cool, but it was so hot, our clothes were drenched in sweat. Yummy.

Cambodia
3/29/2005 - 5/21/2005

The beginning of something huge...

I grew up in a church that frequently spoke of missions. We would have weeks and months of sermons dedicated to missionaries. The faces of hurting people from all over the world consumed the images shining from the overhead projector. Although I was exposed to this type of ministry since childhood, it only recently captivated my heart.

I have been given the opportunity to serve alongside Dr. Tranberg, a missionary physician in Cambodia, for two months this spring. Dr. Tranberg, along with New Hope Ministries, mostly serves the Vietnamese refugees. These people fled Vietnam for political and economic reasons and are deprived of basic benefits such as health care and education. At times their homes have been raided by the government in an attempt to clean out the slums. These poverty stricken people are living in desperation.

Dr. Tranberg has been involved in medicine, education, and evangelism by helping to start clinics and schools for the ostracized Vietnamese and impoverished Cambodian nationals. Her main focus is medicine, traveling from village to village to treat patients with no access to medical care, and also treating more complex patients in her clinic in Phnom Penh, the capitol.

In day to day ministry, my duties will be to assist in the triage, examination, and medical management of the patients in the villages and clinics. Most of our evangelism will directly stem from the contact we have with patients while providing care. Once they hear the gospel, there will be pastors available to connect them to churches. I will also be involved in education. Dr. Tranberg has asked me to train some nationals from the New Hope Ministries churches to serve as nurses for long term support in her clinic.

Serving with Dr. Tranberg will be an exciting and challenging way to serve God. In this ministry I will be able to combine my nursing skills, my vision to see and love people as God does, and my desire to explore this lifestyle of missions. It will also be a unique family practice experience that will surely benefit my education as I start graduate school this summer to be Family Nurse Practitioner at the University of Minnesota.

I know this experience is will be life changing. I feel like I am on the brink of something huge! I just pray that I am open to God's direction and that I rely on his grace to be the loving servant He has called me to be...whether here or there. 

Hopefully I will be able to add entries frequently. Enjoy the pictures and stories and most of all pray for these people and the ministry that is taking place.