A special Tsunami Relief meeting was part of the annual Medical Missions Seminar at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Dallas Jan. 7. About 80 people attended the meeting, which was presided over by Randy Steger, president, Healing Hands International. Don Yelton, White’s Ferry Road Relief Ministries, and Bill McDonough, Partners in Progress, presented status reports and took questions from the audience.

Leaders of other relief agencies and efforts attended including representatives of Rapha and Mission Resource Network.

Anna Griffith, head of the AIDS ministry at the Richland Hills church, North Richland Hills, Texas, tells the group of medical brigade that hopes to go to the devastated area.

Participants represented medical mission efforts around the world.

Ed Poblete, Ada, Okla., minister, talks with Gordon and Dorothy Dowell about the possibilities of sending medical relief to the Tsunami region.

Glenn Boyd, head of International Health Care Foundation, speaks to the group.

A participant takes a brochure prepared by Mission Resource Network about sending Tsunami aid.

Students and others at the relief meeting, the first event on the conference program.