The Countdown

The countdown begins and we're gearing ourselves for an exciting start to 2007 here at MEDICO! We've got so many reasons to celebrate a brand new year but perhaps the greatest joy is in the celebration of MEDICO adding one more to our family! Terri Oliver, our Director of Volunteers, and her husband Tom brought home a precious Christmas gift Sunday, December 24th. Nathan Walter Oliver joined the Oliver family, blessing this household with promise and joy. Congratulations to the Olivers for the new addition! We are SO excited for this precious family. He sure is cute!!

As the MEDICO family grows we like to stay connected with all the many field team volunteers, the warehouse volunteers, and all those who contribute to the success of MEDICO over the years. It's exciting to hear news of where our family of friends are, what they doing and where they have furthered a mission response. Our family extends well beyond the continental United States, touching scores of other continents and countries within, providing the humanitarian care as only a MEDICO volunteer can. We recieve news blogs and websites from volunteers who serve beyond Central America in countries like Ghana, Thailand, Mexico, New Guinea, Haiti, Afghanistan and more. We'll be posting these links in our medicocorps website early in January of 2007 and encourage you to drop on by and click through some of the exciting stories of these MEDICO volunteers, both past and present. In addition to featured links of our volunteers in mission response, we also provide you with links to our MEDICO team members who have shared with us their life stories through blog links and websites, stories of triumph and success and, stories of team members struggling with difficult illnesses or life journies. Please be sure and click on these links as well and perhaps consider a way you can help. We all are a family indeed.

As we all celebrate the ensuing year our hope is that you'll find full connection with MEDICO through whatever means, be it resources of time, of gifts-in-kind, or through financial resources. MEDICO exists because of our volunteer base's response to humanitarian need. Without your passion to help others we could not consistently provide the quaility care we have provided for the over 143,550 patients throughout Honduras and Nicaragua. Let 2007 be a new chapter in your humanitarian care response through MEDICO. Ready to get started today? E-mail us at brian@medico.org or call at (512)930-1893.

Have a safe and happy new year!