By Gina Grate Pottenger Eurasia Region Communications Where Worlds Meet, Year 12, Issue 4: April 2015 The Eurasia Region held its first Manual Translation Summit in early February in Budapest, Hungary, a regional effort to train teams involved with translating the Church of the Nazarene denomination’s guiding document, the Manual. Manual Translation Summit participants from Albania,
Source: Manual Translation Summit from Romania
From the Field
New Hospital Mural
Over Christmas, Rachel Thompson’s brother, Nate and his wife Jill, came and visited Rachel, Jordan and Miles. Nate is a professional artist, doing mostly chalk drawings, but was willing to put his artistic skills to use. In a short period of time, he created this amazing mural depicting our hospital and the work that we do being the hands and feet of Christ. He was able to bring together a number of different parts of our ministry from doctoring, to CBHC, to our nurses, to the patients themselves and lab and maintenance, and make them all one under Jesus. He did a really great job. It is now being placed just outside our outpatient waiting area for all to see as they come to the hospital. Thanks so much Nate and Jill.
Source: New Hospital Mural from Erin Meier – Asia Pacific
It is here . . .
The rest of the world has had drug resistant TB for years. I am sure Papua New Guinea has also had it for years, but we were never able to really prove it . . . until now. Since I have been here, I have suspected that people had resistant TB if they didn’t improve on their TB medicines, and so I would give them an injectable medicine for 2 months and hoped that would be enough. Sometimes it was and sometimes it wasn’t. But without any other option, we did the best we could. That all changed about 5 months ago when we got a new machine called the Gene Xpert machine. This is a machine that can determine if someone’s TB is resistant to the standard drugs that we use to treat TB. We have been testing patients we thought might have resistant TB, but hadn’t gotten any positives so far (which was great for our patients). That changed last week. I saw a kid who had finished his TB treatment in December, but was having more weight loss and coughing. Just looking at him I was worried he had TB, and his Chest Xray confirmed TB, but then the question was does he have resistant TB. So we sent him to get the Gene Xpert test and the next day, he comes back to see me with the words MDR-TB written in his book. MultiDrugResistant TB is what MDR-TB stands for. It is bad. It means…
Source: It is here . . . from Erin Meier – Asia Pacific