Well: Healing Our Beautiful, Broken World from a Hospital in West Africa
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (887 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1455553190 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-16 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
And, in a harrowing bout with malaria, she nearly succumbed herself. Her insightful, ultimately uplifting narrative explores the difference between changing the world and healing the world. She optimistically raised funds to serve without pay in a missions hospital, only to struggle daily with shocking diseases and death. So many of her patients died, that this cancer survivor was drawn back into the vortex of death and dying, forced to grapple again with the theology suffering. Sarah Thebarge ponders the intersection of faith and medicine in this insightful narrative of her medical mission trip to Togo, West Africa. When she applied to the Yale physicians assistant program and the admissions panel asked why they should admit her, she replied, "Because I'm going to change the world some day." After more than a decade of practicing medicine and encountering the medical world herself as a cancer patient, she still wanted to change the world through medicine. Her story demonstrates what it means to truly become a follower of Jesus: to use faith to change ourselves and thereby heal the world.. And in the backdrop were social encounters with the people of West Africa and American and European missions
"Sarah's story-telling is so engaging that you won't want to put this book down, but it is her heart that will grab you. But in her exploration of brokenness, you will also find grace and beauty. Her observations are honest and gritty at times, and you will wrestle with her through difficult tensions. On a planet loaded with pain, death and poverty, Sarah's words are a gentle reminder that each of us is called to participate in the healing of our world as we seek to follow Jesus."