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\"Praying_Hands\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This is a very difficult update to write.\u00a0 We are writing it together.<\/p>\n

Do you ever have those days where you have so many problems in that day that you you feel that you shouldn\u2019t have ever gotten out of bed?\u00a0 Well, we are feeling that this is the YEAR that we shouldn’t have ever gotten out of bed!!!!<\/p>\n

It just seems like this year we have been faced with just an incredibly inordinate amount of problems and roadblocks that seem to be slowing up or causing major \u201cbumps\u201d in the roads.<\/p>\n

Well, here\u2019s the latest.\u00a0 Just to recap, and this recap is a little bit long so please bear with us.\u00a0 When we were finishing up our first term as short-term missionaries, Kim and our good friend Olguita Burbano went together to speak to the then president of the Medical Federation of Ecuador, basically the group who licenses doctors.\u00a0 This man was very kind and was extremely open to Kim serving medically in Ecuador.\u00a0 After a brief synopsis of Kim\u2019s background and education, he said that she simply needed to get her degrees officially registered in Ecuador and then after that she would just need to do a 1-year rural internship and then she could be licensed as a doctor.\u00a0 Even though she is a Nurse Practitioner and not a doctor, since they don\u2019t have Nurse Practitioners in Ecuador, the president figured that the doctoral position was the closest equivalent of what they do have here that would fitting with her training and experience.\u00a0 So, all of this was back in 2012 when we were finishing up our first term.<\/p>\n

During 2013, Olguita was able to get both of Kim\u2019s degrees registered in Ecuador.\u00a0 She now has her Bachelors and Masters in Nursing both fully recognized in Ecuador.<\/p>\n

Here’s what this registration looks like on the Ecuadorian website:<\/p>\n

\"Titles\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So, it was just a matter of going back to see the president of the medical federation to move on to the next step of having her rural internship placement decided upon.\u00a0 Though she wanted to and tried to, Olguita was unsuccessful in her attempts to meet with the president because there was a major country-wide debate going on about medical malpractice laws, in which the president of the medical federation was highly involved, as you could imagine.\u00a0 This situation was finally resolved after much time around the same time we were arriving in Ecuador, and so Olguita and Kim decided to go in together around the end of March\/beginning of April.<\/p>\n

Because of all of our extremely busy schedules, that didn\u2019t end up happening until around the second week of April.\u00a0 When we went in, the president of the federation wasn\u2019t available and we found out that actually, there is now a new president and this president is from a coastal city and so he isn\u2019t available in Quito as often.\u00a0 However, with the people that were available, we were able to figure out that now that there is a commission who decides such matters and would decide whether Kim is eligible for a rural internship or not and if she is, where she would be placed for that internship.\u00a0 They said that we needed to bring all of Kim\u2019s official documents (diplomas, transcripts, licenses from the States) as well as an official request letter as to what Kim was wanting and that the commission would look everything over and decide upon it.<\/p>\n

This past Thursday we went in with Henry Burbano, Olguita\u2019s husband and President of the Covenant\u00a0Church of Ecuador, to turn in these documents and try to meet with the president of the federation to try to plead our case.\u00a0 The president was not available but we were told we could come back the next day (yesterday) during a certain time to meet with him.\u00a0 Henry was going to be traveling to Colombia so he wasn\u2019t going to be available, so we meet with a new friend of ours, Dr. Roberto Contreras, Director of SIFAT Ecuador, to see if he could go with us in support.\u00a0 Thankfully, he was able to fit us into his busy schedule and on such short notice.<\/p>\n

So, yesterday was the day that we were finally going to meet with the president of the Ecuadorian Medical Federation to plead Kim\u2019s case and we did.\u00a0 Unfortunately, his opinion over the situation was NOT the same as the previous president’s.\u00a0 He explained that they do not have Nurse Practitioners in Ecuador (which we knew of course) and since her degree says that she is a nurse, she must be a nurse in Ecuador.<\/p>\n

That was it.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t really have time to explain Kim\u2019s background and experience and such.\u00a0 The issue was very clear to him.<\/p>\n

We asked about the commission that was available to decide such matters and he said that we can leave Kim\u2019s paperwork with the secretary and that the commission will review it, but he said that as president, he has much influence over this commission and we know what his opinion is.<\/p>\n

Before leaving the office, we decided to speak with the secretary about the availability and location of the previous president to see if there was anything that could be done in his opinion.\u00a0 She was able to tentatively setup a meeting with him on Tuesday late afternoon, so we are going to try to meet with him then.<\/p>\n

This is obviously a crushing blow for us\u2026 though we know that things are not decided upon for sure\u2026 the picture does look pretty bleak.\u00a0 We ask you to continue to pray that the final decision will be different from what the president of the federation has indicated.<\/p>\n

In the big picture, this doesn\u2019t change things a whole lot.\u00a0 We, the Santiago Partnership and FACE together, are needing to hire a currently licensed doctor to open the clinic anyways.\u00a0 So, we can open the clinic as planned sometime over this coming summer.\u00a0 Our plans are NOT changing in the least.\u00a0 A good immediate backup plan is that Kim can serve as the Medical Director of the project until the licensing issue is figured out.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more at issue is the long-term and Kim\u2019s medical licensing in Ecuador and how that was going to work into the equation of everything we are planning.\u00a0 Of course with this kind of a blow, Kim is feeling like all of her time spent in graduate school and all of our planning in this way has been a waste (though she also knows that\u2019s not really true\u2026 it\u2019s just hard not to feel that way after hearing news like this) and that everything that she has worked so hard for and feels called to is not being accepted in Ecuador.<\/p>\n

So, we are a bit down and sad once again, which seems to be an uncanny pattern for us for 2014, a year we thought would be filled with much hope and excitement and good news!\u00a0 And there has been that also as we have been so surrounded by love from our brothers and sisters in Christ here in Ecuador and have of course felt the love from you all, our friends and supporters in the States, and that love which comes from our Heavenly Father.<\/p>\n

In times like these, we rest on our call.\u00a0 We know that God has called us.\u00a0 He has called us to this ministry and to Ecuador.\u00a0 We have no idea how all of this will work out and how Kim will be licensed properly in Ecuador, but we do know that He has called us and when we have received this call, He will care for us and work out the details.\u00a0 We know that those details aren\u2019t always worked out in the ways and timing that we have in order but for what He has in order and that we just need to be patient and open to Him.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll close with a song by Steve Green that we\u2019ve been singing in our heads throughout our times like these.\u00a0 It\u2019s based on Philippians 1:6.<\/b><\/p>\n

He Who Began a Good Work<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

He who began a good work in you<\/i>
\nHe who began a good work in you
\nWill be faithful to complete it
\nHe’ll be faithful to complete it
\nHe who started the work
\nWi<\/i>ll be faithful to complete it in you<\/em><\/p>\n

If the struggle you’re facing<\/em>
\n Is slowly replacing<\/em>
\n Your hope with despair<\/em>
\n Or the process is long<\/em>
\n And you’re losing your song<\/em>
\n In the night you can be sure<\/em>
\n That the Lord has His hand on you<\/em>
\n Safe and secure<\/em>
\n He will never abandon you<\/em>
\n You are His treasure<\/em>
\n And He finds His pleasure in you<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n

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