We are in the preparation stage for our upcoming trip - making labels for our meds and our patient forms, inventorying our donated meds, youth group members sticking labels on the vitamins for us, buying clinic supplies, people knitting comfort dolls for our youngest patients, church members and friends donating toothbrushes, reading glasses, creams, vitamins, baggies, and other items for the clinics. It's a flurry of activity as we get ready for our trip with our largest team ever. Our team includes 12 Americans and 18 Haitians. We are well on our way to our goal of staffing our clinics with our Haitian friends. Our American team includes both new and returning members. From Christ Church, Norcross, GA, our team includes Steve, Chip (new), and Terry (me) Franzen. Our St. John's Minneapolis team includes our medical director Dianne Pizey, MD and Dick Anderson (new). As in the past, we are joined by many friends from around the US including a nursing wife and husband team Cynthia Miller and Darrell Martin (new) from Minneapolis, a father-son physician team Dennis and David Ries (both new) also from Minneapolis, and our Iowa dental team including dentist Terry Shively, and his assistants wife Stevie and Jane Weist. Our Haitian team includes doctors Alex LeBrun and Rudolph Richeme, Rudolph's nurse wife Myrline , optometrist Laguerre Guerry, dentist Emmanuel Bastien, and nurse Evens Joicin, 5 nursing students (new each trip), 6 translators, our priest Pere Kerwin Delicat, and the lay leaders and their wives at each of our partners, Maxo and his wife Elise at
