"We would love to share with you a little about our efforts to serve the dental needs of less fortunate children in North Africa. Doctors and their families, as well as staff, participated in this very rewarding experience. In 2009 Dr. Ed Bridgeman Senior and his wife journeyed across the Atlantic, and we had three generations serving together."
In 2008, Dr. Lee and Michelle Bridgeman with Charlotte, his assistant, joined a small contingent of dentists, ophthalmologists, and plastic surgery team to bring much needed medical and dental care to poor children of North Africa. We met many wonderful students and doctors who came to help make the clinic a success. We had a wonderful time and returned to the United States sharing with friends and family all that we experienced.
In 2009 we returned, bringing many of those friends, coworkers and family with us so that they could see first hand what had touched us so deeply. Dr. Brett and Lynne Bridgeman and their girls, Dr. Ed and Suzanne Bridgeman, and Charlotte and Amanda, our coworkers attended the second year. We were delighted to find that the hospitality and friendship we had enjoyed initially, was only deeper upon our return. We are so grateful that our North African friends embraced so many new team members as warmly as they had welcomed us on our first visit.
In the future, we hope to see the impact of this trip continue to grow as we return in 2010. Its unique potential is to build bridges of understanding between two cultures, as we work together for a common purpose of mercy through medicine.
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For Christians, life is spent between two commands: to love God with all that you are, and to love your neighbor as yourself. In a world where one can reach the other side of the planet in less than a day, the once far away places now make up our neighborhood. It follows then that we must seek out opportunities to take of that which we have so bountifully received and share it with those who have need. We hope that our work does not so much reflect on us but point toward the God who has transformed our hearts and hands to serve others in His name.
Dr. Lee Bridgeman, DDS
1605 G Avenue
Suite 100
Plano, TX 75074
972-424-7581
