18May

A Long Road to Safe Births

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Earth Mission Asia, OB

Memories are a powerful thing. Lately Facebook has been showing me memories that reflect on some high power moments. Moments that have generally led to life in the face of likely loss. A young mama who survived severe eclampsia. A mama who after a number of losses welcomed her much longed for baby who came […]

25Apr

#World Malaria Day

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Earth Mission Asia, World Malaria Day

April 25th, 2017 is World Malaria Day. Before I started working in South-East Asia, Malaria Day would have been just a matter of statistics: “Malaria 2015: 212,000,000 new cases globally. 429,000 deaths.” Or perhaps Malaria Day would have inspired me to review a bit of esoteric medical information, knowing I would probably never use it in the […]

17Feb

Reflections on Kyaukkyi, Myanmar

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Earth Mission Asia, Ther Ray - Dau Pae Clinic

My wife and 9-month old daughter traveled with me for a week in Kyaukkyi. This is where the clinic associated with Earth Mission Asia’s health practitioner program is located. We traveled there in early January of 2017 to train the local clinic staff members, as well as, finish up Anatomy & Physiology and Medical Math […]

15Dec

Why do they live so far away?

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Earth Mission Asia

Last week, seven of us set out from Chiang Mai, headed to a couple of villages in the mountains. Our task was to help provide shelter for a pair of Karen widows. We traveled in one truck – crammed full with people, tools, and backpacks. The seven included Nathan, a friend and fellow leader at […]

07Nov

How to Learn a Language

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Earth Mission Asia, EMA students, Teaching

Over the past several months, Earth Mission Asia (EMA)’s dream of starting a healthcare training program for practitioners in rural Myanmar has blossomed like magic. Of course, God’s plan often looks like magic so I’m sure it’s His power that I’m seeing. It’s been just a year since EMA walked through the first major door God […]

28Sep

Pukinyaw in the Driver’s Seat

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Driving Lessons, Earth Mission Asia

Last year, on the USA Pukinyaw (Karen) Tour, you were introduced to the Daily Dhee, which was our daily update as we drove around the USA. Since then, the written form of the Daily Dhee has been sadly neglected by the press. It has been decided that this grave error must be rectified. Don’t worry, the pun was intentional. The […]

31Aug

Naw Ger Mwee Paw

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Earth Mission Asia, Medical, Patient

Ger Mwee Paw was an 18-year-old young, Karen woman who came to our training clinic in the jungle a few years ago. On admission to the hospital, she weighed 25 kilos and was severely anemic. From her history and physical exam, we suspected she had a type of Gestational Trophoblastic Disease, possibly a choriocarcinoma. Judging […]

01Aug

New Beginnings

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Earth Mission Asia, Ther Ray - Dau Pae Clinic

Our beloved lab technician TK came bouncing across the road with his motor cycle helmet still on his head announcing “It is good- we can start”. What I actually heard in a way off place in my mind was “And now let the wild rumpus start”. For no other reason than it seemed the right […]

01Feb

An Imperforate Anus

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Earth Mission Asia, Medical, Pediatric

Dah Ney Htoo arrived at the our hospital in the middle of the afternoon. He was three days old and had been born without an anus. His poor little abdomen looked like a balloon ready to pop. His innocent tiny face reflecting a suggestion of Down's syndrome, registered no complaints. He actually looked unbelievably alert. Yet Dah Ney...

05Jan

Obstructed Labor

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Earth Mission Asia, Medical, OB

We all have to die someday. I get that. All of our lives hold a measure of suffering. I understand that. But not this. For a woman to die from obstructed labour is an unimaginable horror that still happens here in the jungle. This is actually an almost unheard of event in our modern world. Women do die from the […]

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