by Staff | Feb 8, 2014 | Medical Mission Trips, Veracruz 2014
By Susie Woodson Austin Smiles is about to go on the road again. Today team members are gathering in Veracruz for the start of AS’s 79th mission outside the U.S. We’ll have four plastic surgeons but the entire crew amounts to almost 50 people to fill 10 different...
by Staff | Feb 8, 2014 | Medical Mission Trips, Veracruz 2014
by Anne Woodson In a little more than 24 hours (much less for you early birders) we will be landing in Veracruz, Mexico for the first Austin Smiles trip of 2014. We will be tracking down our luggage, meeting new people or trying to remembertheir names, and some of us...
by Staff | Jun 6, 2013 | General Information, Medical Mission Trips
Austin, Texas This is my first humanitarian mission—and my first time writing a blog. The fine people at Austin Smiles have entrusted me with their blog space to chronicle the mission experience from a novice’s point of view. At first I struggled with the idea of...
by Staff | May 15, 2013 | Medical Mission Trips
Austin Smiles’ Facebook page was stuck at just under 500 likes. It would slowly creep from 492 to 493. Each new like caused a “yippee” in the office. So today at 498, we asked our Facebook followers to ask 2 people to like our page. I don’t know why, but 500...
by Staff | May 10, 2013 | Medical Mission Trips
Happy Mother’s Day to all of our wonderful mothers! “God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.” ~Rudyard Kipling Feliz día de las madres a todas nuestras madres maravillosas! “Dios no podía estar en todas partes, y por lo...
