SEARCH
Blogroll
-
RECENT POSTS
CATEGORIES
- Air Travel
- American actions
- Americans with disabilities
- Bank fees
- Boulder
- Boulder City Council
- Boulder County Commissioners
- Boulder D.A.
- BVSD
- Christian nation
- Christmas
- Civil unions vs. marriage
- Colorado Flood 2013
- Economics
- Fathers
- Feral cats
- Fourmile Fire
- Fourth of July
- Global warming
- Guns
- Health care reform
- Helpful businesses
- Hope
- Inspirations
- Lesbian parenting
- Lessons on the road
- Marriage definition
- Mitt Romney
- Mormon Tabernacle Choir
- Mothers
- My Faith
- National politics
- Nobel Peace Prize
- Parenting
- Parents
- Political speech
- President Obama
- Protecting life
- Public nudity law
- Reflections
- Religious freedom
- Residential chickens
- Rules of decorum
- Same-gender issues
- School Climate
- Societal decency
- Student and family privacy
- Taxes
- Thanksgiving
- University of Colorado
- Valentine's Day
- Voter guide
- Women
ARCHIVES since April 2009
Tag Archives: Acts 3:7
From humanitarian dentist to dental missionary
A 5-year-old Guatemalan girl told Dr. Richard L. Call, a dentist from Westminster, Colo., in a temporary dental clinic in Guatemala,” I just want to eat my food and not have it hurt. Can you help me?” Call said, “When I looked inside her mouth, I found 12 abscessed teeth. The rest all had cavities. Broke my heart.”
This little girl would have suffered throughout her life without help. Her nutrition and over-all health would have been affected. I’m glad to say humanitarian dentists and the Hirsche Smiles Foundation came to her aid.
Many thanks to Call and his wife, LeeAnn Call, Dr. Garry Brown and his wife, Ann Brown (from Utah), Dr. Lee Olson and his wife, Peggy Olson, (formerly from Broomfield, but now from Utah). Many thanks, too, to Dr. Wayne Tomkinson and his wife, Suzanne Tomkinson (from Arizona), and Dr. Paul Fillmore and JoAnne Fillmore, (currently full-time dental missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints).
Continue reading
Posted in Inspirations
Tagged Acts 3:7, Ann Brown, Arizona, Broomfield Colo, dental missionaries, dental trips, Dr. Garry Brown, Dr. Lee Olson, Dr. Paul Fillmore, Dr. Richard L. Call, Dr. Wayne Tomkinson, Guatemala, Hirsche Smiles Foundation, humanitarian dentistry, humanitarian dentists, JoAnne Fillmore, LDS, LeeAnn Call, Mormon, Mormons, Peggy Olson, Richard Call, Suzanne Tomkinson, temporary dental clinic, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Utah, Westminster Colo
Leave a comment