Gayle Stroschein

Thursday, January 5th Wow what a whirl wind of experiences we have had since our arrival in Africa.  The team that God send me are awesome and have been working very hard since arrival in this beautiful country that is my second home. We started  out having a clinic at a special needs orphanage, in … Read more

Wednesday, January 4th Hello everyone, Olivia here! Today was a very big day for our team. We got to head over to Selians OR rooms and Dr. Sutton along with Dr. Roberts performed seven different surgeries. As a student who was experiencing the OR for the first time I was very excited to have the … Read more

Tuesday,  January 3rd Clinic Chaos. We survived. Hey everyone! Emma here! The last two days have been a blur. We had clinic at Selian Lutheran hospital yesterday and today. Monday we saw 120 patients and today we saw around 80 patients. Clinic was tough. Our hearts were heavy because we were constantly reminded that we … Read more

Sunday,  January 1st Hello everyone! Emma here! Today we started off by going to church at the ALMC mission church. We got to visit with other people traveling to serve in Tanzania. We also got to speak with a lot of people from Tanzania or who had been living in Tanzania long term. We enjoyed … Read more

Saturday, December 30 Hey guys! My name is Michaela and I am one of the nursing students who are on the trip. To start our day, we learned a lot of valuable lessons about the healthcare here. We set up clinic in a government clinic in which they did not have much. Our first few … Read more

Friday,  December 30th Hello everyone! My name is Olivia and I am a nursing student on this trip! Today was an incredible day! We begin the day learning to be flexible here in Tanzania with a broken down safari vehicle. With some great help from the incredible people here, we managed to regroup and make … Read more

Thursday,  December 29th Hey guys! My name is Emma and I am one of the students on this trip! I’ll be sharing about our day today. Today was our first full day in Tanzania. We were all a little jet lagged this morning, but were eager to start the day and experience Tanzania! Today was … Read more

2022SpinalDance   Come Join us at Hope Ministries for a night of celebration and fun. There will be a “heavy hors d’oeuvre” buffet from 6-7 pm. Entertainment will be provided by “Madison Avenue”. You do not want to miss hearing this great group.   With a heavy heart we will be honoring a board member … Read more

I hope you will he able to join us for a night of fun and celebration.  Put this date in your calender.

It was another beautiful day in Mwanza. It was Alinda’s turn to join Steve and Gayle for spinal surgeries at Bugando. We had two successful spine surgeries, and today I could tell the Tanzanian surgeons had much more confidence in what they were doing, and would ask Steve specific questions relating to the surgeries they … Read more