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Navajo Reservation Will Host First USA OBI Medical Mission
Spread out over Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah, the Navajo Reservation is home to the largest Native American tribe in the southwest. Large and rich in culture as the Navajo Nation is, a dentist has not been assigned to care for patients at the nicely equipped Montezuma Creek Clinic for over two years. In response to this need and in cooperation with the Utah Navajo Health Systems, Inc., a small team of volunteer dentists will begin OBI's first medical mission held in the USA on March 18! More here...
Follow the beautiful San Juan River. In the midst of endless sky, there are two filling stations, a post office and convenience store. You've arrived in Montezuma Creek, home to approximately 1,400 Navajo Indians. They live, eat and breathe Navajo Nation law. They follow no other.
Lead by OBI's Dwight Lohrenz, three dentists and two assistants will enter this sacred land to help Navajo men, women and children needing dental care. Six and seven-year-old children from four local Head Start classes hold most morning appointments. They are required by law to receive hygiene and dental exams before attending school. This requirement is both unaffordable and unavailable for many Navajo parents not able to provide for their family's basic needs.
"We have been given the opportunity to help meet this need for the Navajo Nation," Dwight commented. "This will hopefully open the door further for a larger full service OBI medical mission coming later this summer. I am excited about being able to assist the poor and needy in the United States!"
Having been on seven OBI medical missions in the last four years including January's trip to Ukraine, dentist Nelson Bailey will help launch the first five days of next week's mission. "I accepted right away," commented this dedicated man from Pennsylvania. "I do this to serve the least among us."
Dr. Jim and Doris Hesser as well as Dr. Ken and Judy Mundy will relieve Dr. Bailey the second week. From Enid, Oklahoma, Jim and Doris are also OBI veterans, having done five missions. Calling himself a "fossil" for having practiced dentistry for thirty-three years, Jim comments, "Our main goal is to show the people that Jesus loves them through our actions."
Join us for the next two weeks as this ground-breaking mission begins to address the health issues of a people who have been here longer than the establishment of the United States.
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