NTV Kenya (a national TV station) came to Tenwek two months ago to do a short piece on the hospital. We weren't able to find the origin...

Last September, I wrote this blog post about the tension between the promises and what I see all around me. An anonymous commenter (that ...

Not surprisingly, our kids absorb bits and pieces of both American culture and Kenyan culture. Sometimes the bits of one culture get mixed ...

Most people probably think their bosses have a few loose screws from time to time.  And who can blame them?  The pressure of being the Big C...

When Helping Hurts , by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert, has influenced several discussions among the McCropders recently. Corbett is a com...

Yesterday, around noon, we admitted a man in his 50's with known severe heart disease. Apparently, he had been somewhat stable until a c...

Lots of great cases at Alyssa's blog .

Friday was the last official day of school for the Tenwek missionary kids.  To celebrate, we had a field day complete with games and a picni...

"Daktari, could you evaluate this patient in Casualty ( i.e. ER )?" Sure. What happened? "He was found at the bottom of a we...

Baby "Abraham" is a tiny orphan who lives at an orphanage in another town. This week he spent a few days at Tenwek hospital on ox...