On Call (The Jaffray Collection of Missionary Portraits)

Thompson M.D., David C.

ISBN 10: 160066038X / ISBN 13: 9781600660382

Published by Wingspread, 2007

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Seller Inventory # 160066038X-VB

Bibliographic Details

• Title: On Call (The Jaffray Collection of Missionary Portraits)
• Publisher: Wingspread
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 160066038X
• ISBN 13: 9781600660382
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

Dr. David Thompson is on call.  First came the call of God to medical missions; then a phone call announced the brutal murder of David's parents at the hands of the Viet Cong. Later another call carried the determined missionary kid through medical school. Today, David Thompson responds to the persistent calls of the sick and dying at the Bongolo Mission Hospital in Gabon, West Africa.

About the Author

DAVID THOMPSON was born in the U.S. but grew up in Cambodia where his parents worked for 16 years. When he was 14 he and his father tried unsuccessfully to save a Cambodian man who was seriously injured when a truck and a bus collided. God used the incident to plant in David's young heart a desire to become a doctor and help people who had limited access to healthcare. David graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 1973 with a M.D. degree and eventually completed five years of residency in general surgery in southern California. In 1977 he and his wife Rebecca moved to Gabon, Africa and for the next 34 years built a 150-bed full-service hospital to provide medical services to Gabon's least served provinces. In 1966, Dr. Thompson helped establish the Pan-African Academy of Christian Surgeons (PAACS), an organization that trains African surgeons at Christian hospitals throughout the continent. Since 2014, Dr. Thompson has been working as a volunteer to train Egyptian surgeons at Harpur Memorial Hospital.