A Prayer Request from Nick

In February, I will be leading a 13-member Team from Mercy Ships to a remote village near Guéckédou - deep in the interior of Guinea. We will provide 4 days of on-site dental care for the community and promote our surgical screening day, which we will hold on our final full day in the village. Our hope is that by providing free dental care to many suffering from relatively minor dental ailments, their successful treatment and relief will cause them to bring out of hiding those most drastic cases where maxo-facial surgery is needed to correct a life-threatening problem. We will then screen these "worse-case-scenario" patients for potential surgeries back here aboard the ship later in the spring.

It's a two-day trip into Guéckédou, one-way. Once we arrive, we will set up a Team Compound made up of our team camping and cooking area, our patient screening area, our dental procedures tent, and a security perimeter. We have partnered with local church pastors in the region who will be our hosts, as well as a long-time dental missionary group to Guinea who will serve as our guides on this expedition.

There is a tremendous amount of logistical planning to be done over the next two months in preparation for this expedition, from transportation to security, to food & equipment & supplies, to advertising our coming to the surrounding region and more.

I am super-excited about this trip!, but I also feel the weight of what we are going to do: to seek out the dying and to restore hope to them in Jesus' Name.

I humbly ask you to join me in prayer for God's provision, protection, a successful expedition, and that God truly would bring out those who most desperately need help. I am deeply grateful for your partnership & support!
--nick