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A Medical Mission
A Bulloch County couple helps people in need in Guatemala
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A Guatemalan family is shown waiting to get care for their child, who was born with a cleft palette. Tim Huffingham, pastor of Emit Grove Baptist Church, and his wife Helen, a nurse anesthetist at East Georgia Regional Medical Center, were part of a medical mission to the Central American nation. - photo by Photo Courtesy Emit Grove Baptist Church
With a little bit of Spanish and a lot of faith, a Statesboro pastor and his wife embarked on a medical mission trip to Antigua, Guatelmala. Tim Huffingham, pastor of Emit Grove Baptist Church, and his wife, Helen, went with surgeons and other support personnel from across the United States and helped with 93 surgeries a little more than a week in February. They came together through Faith in Practice, a Christian organization that strives to improve the physical, spiritual and economic conditions of the poor in Guatemala, through short-term surgical, medical and dental mission trips.
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