Topics:<\/b> Commitment; Good Deeds; Medical Care; Ministry; Missions; Passion; Priorities; Sacrifice; Service<\/p>\n
References:<\/b> Matthew 6:19\u201320; Luke 9:23\u201326; 12:33<\/p>\n
Kathy Holmgren, wife of Seattle Seahawks head coach Mike Holmgren, decided to skip Super Bowl XL in 2006 for something she considered more important\u2014a faith-based humanitarian trip to Africa.<\/p>\n
Holmgren, a nurse, and her daughter, Calla, who is an obstetrician, left three days before the big game on a seventeen-day medical training mission with Northwest Medical Teams\u2014a relief group based in Portland, Oregon\u2014to the northwest region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The two joined six other physicians with experience as missionaries.<\/p>\n
During the three days it took to reach the region, the medical team traveled over marginal roads that narrowed to near nonexistence, waded through streams, and crossed rough-hewn and often improvised bridges. The team then worked with the staff of a hospital operated by the Evangelical Covenant Church.<\/p>\n
The hospital is the only medical facility for 300,000 people in the region, and the staff is often forced to use rudimentary equipment when treating 2,500 patients a month. More than 3.9 million Congolese have died since 1998, most from preventable disease, according to the British medical journal The Lancet<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Kathy Holmgren spent ten months in the region in 1970 but gave up her dream of being a Covenant medical missionary to marry. Last October, Mike Holmgren\u2019s birthday present to his wife was the trip back to the country she loves.<\/p>\n
\u2014Stan Friedman, \u201cSeahawks Coach\u2019s Family Choose Mission to Africa over Super Bowl,\u201d beliefnet.com (Religion News Service, January 30, 2006)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Topics: Commitment; Good Deeds; Medical Care; Ministry; Missions; Passion; Priorities; Sacrifice; Service References: Matthew 6:19\u201320; Luke 9:23\u201326; 12:33 Kathy Holmgren, wife of Seattle Seahawks head coach Mike Holmgren, decided to skip Super Bowl XL in 2006 for something she considered more important\u2014a faith-based humanitarian trip to Africa. Holmgren, a nurse, and her daughter, Calla, who … Continue reading “SKIPPING
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