Christmas card

"It’s been nearly 2 years since we moved to Malawi as medical missionaries at Blantyre Adventist Hospital. We can see God leading in the work at the hospital and in the community. As the only cardiologist in Malawi, Tiffany keeps busy working daily at our hospital, and volunteering time at 3 other hospitals: consultations, echos, ECGs, PFTs & stress tests. The ICU has been open a year and has had more than 100 patients. We are grateful to have a second intensivist this year, Dr. Saunders. Darryl serves on the housing & building committee and mentors when he’s not responding to help with whatever may be the crisis of the day. While there are days when our lives seem like a scene from the movie "The Gods Must Be Crazy," we are content to be where God has sent us."

We didn't actually write the paragraph that we wanted to put on the back of our Christmas card until AFTER they went out in the mail. But, still, even if it's late, we did try to summarize our lives (for those 120 people who are on our mailing list) in a small enough paragraph to print at a reasonable font size on a standard shipping label and also hold the attention of distant relatives and acquaintances with whom we communicate only once per year...of course now that I'm publishing it on the blog with no particular shipping label size it seems we could have expanded somewhat on the year's events....oh well. Guess you'll have to read the whole year's worth of blog entries if you want more!