DCF Update

For those of you who have participated on a previous Dental Community Fellowship international mission trip, you will recall hearing about the necessity of being “flexible.” Is that not a daily truism brought about by the pandemic?   Our best laid plans for overseas trips to resume in 2022 have…

by Brodie Hart/ Thursday, January 27th 2022/ abcNews4 Charleston NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Seeing a need, and doing something about it. It’s simple in theory, but how many of us walk right past that person lying in the street? What if, instead, you extended a hand to help them up?…

Written by Elizabeth Carlson, University of Alabama Birmingham, 2021 Charleston, S.C. is home to several nonprofit dental and medical clinics that provide healthcare to underserved communities around the city. And chances are good that, if you walk into any one of these clinics, you might run into periodontist Dr. Bill…

Can you believe that we are now seeing what we hope is an end to the pandemic?Praise God for how rapidly the covid vaccines were developed. It’s now been almost a year and a half since a DCF team served overseas. We havemissed each other and our friends in other…

Warmer days bring with them evidence of God’s renewing of the earth as trees begin to bud and flowers appear. Along with evidence that Spring is around the corner, is a hope that the pandemic might be subsiding. LIfe begins to feel more optimistic.  I (Dr. Bill) am writing this…

As this most unusual year draws to a close, I'm filled with a lot of emotions. This year has brought each of us unusual challenges. We've faced the uncertainty of a pandemic, business upsets, racial and political unrest, along with feelings of isolation as we have had to learn this…