Basketball and church

This weekend we were invited to a basketball game of the top two Filipino colleges. We went with the boys from the children's home. Jeff Long, the director of the home, has a son playing for Ateneo, one the teams in the game. I've put in a few pictures.

We also went to church on Sunday in a local churchMany of the kids in the home went to this church, so we got to hang out with them more. One of our favorite young boys is Man-

man, who you can see folding his hands for the prayer. He is 4 years old, and when he was a baby, the mosquito netting above his crib caught fire, fell on him, and the burns caused two of his fingers to fuse into his hand. He has had one surgery to unfuse them. We are going to pay for his second surgery very soon, and then help him to rehab and hopefully regain use of his ring and baby fingers. If you pray, would you spend some of that time praying for Man-man? We love all your prayers of support, and want to also make sure you know that the finances you have provided for this trip are what we are going to use to pay for this surgery. Many of you reading this are having a big impact on the other side of the world, in this little kid's life.

In other news, we have begun working in earnest on the clinic. We have inventoried our supplies, set up the room, and will flyer the barangay (village) all this week. We will also interview everyone we can to get a handle on the medical needs of the village. We open this coming Saturday. So Jason, Lindsay, Dan, and Joel are spending the week in other barangay clinics to learn what to do from an established practice, and Ashley, Dan A., Jessie, Lauren and myself will do the majority of the interviewing and flyering.