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A Good Start to 2014
Dear friends,The mission hospital is booming and we will soon be dedicating the Diospi Suyana school. At present, 58 missionaries from 10 countries are active in their respective fields. In January, Lion Hudson Publishers in Ox-ford accepted our manuscript of the story of Diospi Suyana and the book will be out in
▲ D r. K l a u s - D. J o h n h ä l t s e i n e D a n ke s r e d e
The Dignity of all People – including the Quechuas – is Inviolable
When Sra. Maura Astorga set foot in the hos-pital on January 27th she was surprised to be presented with a gift basket and given free treatment. Shortly beforehand the computer system had identified her as the 10,000th pati-ent to attend our dental clinic.
English-speaking world in fall. Thanks to your support we are starting our seventh year of ministry debt-free and full of enthu-siasm. We give thanks to Him who has made these fantastic developments possible: God! Yours truly, Martina & Klaus-Dieter John
February 3rd: A little girl is admitted as an emergency, in immediate need of medication for severe cramping. After being examined by Dr. Hei-ke Lindacher she is placed on intensive care for observation.
What had happened? The Quechua girl had not been able to resist temptation and had eaten a handful of highly poisonous berries (baccharis coridifolia). The toxin affects the central nervous system and can even kill cows.
On the Brink of Death Dental Clinic Steams Ahead
▲ The dental team and the happy patient.
The elderly Quechua Indio lady from the moun-tains suddenly heard an ominous cracking noise and with both jaws dislocated was literally left with her mouth wide open. Living for two weeks with your mouth open is tantamount to torture and the patient could barely eat or drink, her oral cavity dried out and the dislocated joints were painful. Our visiting ENT specialist D. Sarah Helmle managed to put her jaws back in place under ge-
neral anesthetic and solved the problem.
▲ Sheila with her dad – she survived.
◄ Dr. Hinger and Dr. Sarah Helm-le examine the patient.
Two Weeks with an Open Mouth
Week by week Ryan Morigeau saw the poor patients sitting in the waiting room of the mission hospital. One look at their shoes, their clothes and their teeth reveals the hardship of their circumstances. The photographer set
► Ryan Morigeau
at his photo shoot
himself a great goal - to capture and share the beauty and dignity of the Quechua people, people who in Peru are treated as second-class citizens. As his portrait photos show, he more than succeeded.
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Dr. Klaus-Dieter & Dr. Martina John
Great Progress on School Construction ● School License Issued
Through the Eyes of a Mother
Carolin Klett, Lilli Warkentin and Julianna Rolli have been out and about a lot recently, visiting the 250 studen-ts due to attend the school in
order to get to know their families and circum-stances better. Carolin wrote in her blog: “We are gaining the most interesting insights; from a clas-sy doctor´s apartment to a run-down room with a dirt floor, we really see it all. Sometimes we sit on soft couches, occasionally on rock-hard stools and often we are just left standing!“
On Dirt Tracks
13 New Long-term Missionaries Arrive in Peru
A rainbow over the D iospi S uyana S chool
Since our last newsletter shortly before Christmas, 13 more long-term missionaries have arrived from Germany, the US and Ca-nada. They will be staying from one to three and a half years. With 58 members of staff at
In order to save the boy´s leg, surgeon Dr. Annette Haar decided on emergency surgery. Photo-grapher Ryan M o r i g e a u ´ s
photo shows his mother as the boy is wheeled into the operating wing. How great must her fears have been at this moment? Seeing the world through another´s eyes makes it easier to practise what the Bible tells us to do : “Love your neighbour as yourself“
The construction team headed up by Udo Kle-menz and Johannes Bahr has made a breath-taking final sprint as three weeks before the inauguration tiles are laid and cementing and painting work is completed. On February 11, school principal Christian Bigalke collected the
▲ An anxious mother
▲ Landscape gar-dener Daniel Dreßler and his wife, anesthe-tist Susen with their children Anton, Ludwig and Lea
present, our team is almost double the size it was on the day the hospital was inaugurated in August 2007. We wish our new colleagues God´s richest blessing and good times in Curahuasi.
▲ Carolin Klett laughs despite dirty shoes.
New school furniture from Germany is unloa-ded at the hospital. ▼
◄ Roofers on the roof of the school gym.
▲ General practitio-ner Dr. John Wash-burn with his wife Crystal and children Caleb, Hannah and Hudson from the US
▲ Physiotherapist Nolan Wright with his wife Konika and children Benjamin and Sydney from the the USA
▲ General practi-tioner Dr. Ari Cale from the USA
▲ Pharma-cist Claudia Schultze
▲ Nurse Yael Becker
▲ Nurse Bettina Markwart from Kanada
▲ Midwife Bärbel Bühler
▲ CTA Mar-kus Dirksen
▲ Nurse Dana Hennig
official school license in Abancay. The Peru-vian company Josfel donated 1,100 lights for the school building; Celima Co. sent all the tiles needed, WPO Furnishings of Illertissen provided everything for the workshop and Sachsenkü-chen supplied the kitchen for the caretaker´s apartment.
Please send your gifts to:
Diospi Suyana - USA664 Liberty Church Roadc/o Jim MillerGray, TN 37615 USA
In the USA Diospi Suyana is a recognizednon-profit-organization and can issuetax receipts.
James H. MillerSecretary of Diospi Suyana - USATelephone 423-384-1776Email [email protected]
Roger Smalligan MD, MPHPresident of Diospi Suyana- USATelephone 806-356-0739Email [email protected]
Issue no 49 - February 2014
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