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Saturday, April 9, 2011

Here We are!!

Dear friends and family! We have created our blog and are happy to let you enjoy it for the very first time!




This is going to be a very nice way for you to learn about us and know what God is doing in our lives.

Right now, I (jean Claude) am in Kenya for my last rotation with Paacs before I graduate in August 2011. I will be here for 2 months (April and May).

Christine and Luc are in Bongolo and are all doing well.

I finaly got to work with Dr Bob Greene, a very good, Lover of God and competent Orthopedic surgeon who I have missed to work whith more than once in the past! He was in Cameroon and left just 1 week before I got in there to work at the same hospital for 3 months then he come to Bongolo to work there for 3 months while I was gone to South Africa. I told him the day I met him that I was finaly going to learn from him what i have missed so long ago.(Picture: Dr Bob teaching me how to insert a SING Intra Medullary Nail @ Tenwek Hospital, Bomet Kenya)
God knows how to bring his people together. In November 2010 while site visiting Nebobongo, we happened to go there with Philip Greene, Bob Greene's son. Philip helped us to drow a plan for remodeling our house in Nebobongo as well as to estimate the Badget. today I'm learning Orthopedics from his dad! Thanks Greens
On My way to Tenwek while waiting to travel for 3 to 4 hours to Tenwek from Nairobi, I went to visit Kijabe Hospital first of all with the idea of meeting Dr Ron Sutherland, a Pediatric Urology surgeon I worked with several time in the past in Bongolo and who was visiting Kijabe hospital at that time. Unfortunately I missed him and his wife Suzane and son Max, they were in Nairobi visiting some friends and driving Max to the airport in the evening of the same day as Max was returning to US few days before them. I wanted also to visit A 3 years old boy with his dad. when we knew that Dr Ron was visiting Kijabe Hospital, we at Bongolo hospital arranged to transfer Elisio to Tenwek to be operated by Dr Ron. Elisio had a serious accident 3 to 4 months before being transfered to finaly be operated by Dr Ron. From accident he sustained a serious pelvic fracture with urethra transection and rectum laceration. He was operated twice in our hospital in the acute setting and we manged to stabilize his pelvic fracture ( healed and he is walking well right now, PTL) and his rectum laceration ( he come to kenya while using already his entire bowel tract instead of Colostomy) but his urethral transection with all scaring was difficult for us to dare to repair it. Elisio was indeed operated on thursday, March 31st and on Friday April 1st I was there to visite them and I'm sure his father and Elisio himself were delighted to see me and have the chance to chat in French ( they were missing so badly)
Dr Ron and Elisio and father (Left)
Me and them (Right)GOD ANSWERS PRAYERS

Praise the Lord, My wife was accepted for a 3 months online course about ARV prescription and management. that course cost more that 1000 euros but the Belgium cooperation agency is going to support that and if she does well she will earn some more credit to do a mastery about HIV in the future. The course starts this monday April 11th!!


We keep hearing good news about the eventual container friends, brothers in Christ and we have been working on aroung 3 months now. We still have to find money to ship it from US to Nebobongo, but since God we pray is soo cool, he will provid at his own time!

I normally was going to do this Ortho rotation @ Soddo hospital in ethiopia, but God decided otherwise and we then explored the possibility of doing it here in Kenya. Until the day i was leaving Gabon, we were not certain about the visa for me to stay here longer as well as about the work permit to allow me to practice in Kenya (even though I'm still in training) The night before flying to Kenya we had a prayer meeting at the Guest house @ Strows with Alace Strow, Lisa Nicky, Henry Walther and the envision team of almost 6 fellows. We prayed about my visa and work permit ( Since it appeared that I could not work if I do ot have that work permit and this work permit was thought to be important for me to have a 2 months visa at the airport). To be honest, i was a bit nervous and thinking that they could not let me stay longer in Kenya. Landing at Jomo Kenyata International airport in Kenya, the Immigration Officer just kindly asked me to fill the white paper and come to get my visa. I got my visa not for 8 to 9 weeks as a requested but for 3 months and for a half of price than what I have payed when visiting Kenya several times before. I got in Tenwek on saturday April 2nd but my work permit was not there yet. Guess what, on monday just when I showed up to the hospital to start my work, the work permit was handed to me and instead of 2 months as requested, they allowed me, if I want to work with this pieace of paper for 12 months. Isn't this amazing when we easily switch from fear to amazement? God is soo cool!!

Working at Tenwek hospital you really realize how big is God. I always ask myself that If God had not chosen his sons and daughter to start this hospital, with all of these trauma cases and fractures, how those people could cope? This hospital is really a blessing for this area and country and it lifts up high the name of our Lord! Tenwek hospital is a real spring of hope for people of these area and country as well as spring of blessing for who serves here in the holy name of our lord!