New Provider!
We are excited to share that we will have a new provider joining the team in January! Lauren Atkinson completed physician assistant training at Jefferson College of Health Sciences in Roanoke, VA and has a number of years experience now treating both pediatric and adult patients. Lauren’s passion is to provide both wellness and acute care for pediatric patients. Lauren is bilingual and has a heart for Latin America. She has spent time doing short term missions work in the Dominican Republic. We are so excited for her to be part of the team and for all of you to meet her!
Giving Opportunities
Many of you are aware but some may not be that Dr. Thomas Dillard, our founding pediatrician, and his family are back serving at Tenwek Mission Hospital in Kenya. The patients and families Dr. Dillard and other staff at Tenwek serve are often very sick and often have limited financial resources to combat disease and sickness. We have an opportunity to support the great work being done at Tenwek both through our prayers and financial support. We would encourage you if you are considering the final end of year giving to consider giving to Tenwek. You can view all of the different needs on our Triad Pediatrics foundation website https://www.triadpediatricsfoundation.com/giving.
The link below will take you to a site set up by World Gospel Mission, a 501(c)(3), where you can easily donate online, have funds go directly to Tenwek and also receive charitable tax deductions as allowed by law. In the very near future we hope to have a link on the foundation website that will allow you to give to the foundation and have all contributions designated to go to the work at Tenwek. https://www.wgm.org/project/tenwek-pediatric
Advent Reflections
The season of Advent provides opportunities to reflect at the end of the year and at the anticipation of a new year on what is most important. Each year has various challenges, difficulties and forms of suffering. From the perspective of a Christian worldview this is because the first Adam failed and with this failure sin entered the world. In addition to sin, pain, suffering and death is now the universal human experience. But the hope of Christmas is that the second Adam came, was born to a virgin, and where the first Adam failed, he never failed, he lived a perfect life, at the end of his life died on a cross, was raised three days later proving that sin and death had been defeated, he ascended back to heaven and now reigns and rules at the right hand of the Father. In our team meetings during Advent each year we reflect on the various trials we have experienced, but we also seek to set our eyes and hearts on the hope we have in Christ. Because of the First Advent and the promise of the Second Advent, even though life can be extremely difficult and hard we can still experience hope and peace. The Christian hope is hope in a God who entered in and embraced our suffering and suffered to the point of death, even death on a cross (Phil 2). The hope of the Second Advent is His return, when sickness, sin and suffering will forever cease and the King will fully establish His kingdom in all its fullness and glory. We hope these truths provide you with hope as 2022 draws to an end and 2023 approaches.
Thank you to all of our patients and families for the prayers and support for Triad Pediatrics; we are looking forward to continuing to serve and all that is to come in 2023!
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Created with images by Melinda Nagy - "fresh snow and mountain landscape with firs background Christmas banner" • LIGHTFIELD STUDIOS - "Panoramic view of woman holding globe isolated on red, global warming concept" • Gina Sanders - "Adventkranz zu Weihnachten"