by mcophilly | Nov 26, 2025 | SMI 2025, SMI Student Blog
Kensington and Samaria Nicole W. - SMI 2025 I graduated nursing school in May of 2021. During the covid pandemic. That didn’t matter, I was going to be a medical missionary and was ready to go to whatever country the Lord wanted to send me to, pandemic or not. Or...
by mcophilly | Nov 3, 2025 | SMI 2025, SMI Student Blog
Knowing God without Knowing Jesus Hannah S. - SMI 2025 On our first afternoon of door-to-door health screenings, the heat was relentless. It was the middle of a heat wave, and I could feel my energy fading fast. As Daniel and I made our way through the...
by mcophilly | Oct 1, 2025 | SMI 2025, SMI Student Blog
To Linger Ted C. - SMI 2025 I can hear a dog howling its small head off as we are invited into the house. Hesitantly, I enter the house, which reeks of weed. Two small children are racing around and around the house, also screaming their small heads off. A woman...
by mcophilly | Jun 19, 2025 | SMI 2025, SMI Student Blog
Unwasted Opportunity Ava B. - SMI 2025 I spoke to a man today who could barely look me in the eye. He looked up once to ask, “Could I have another cup of water?” as if he thought I might say no. He spoke so softly that I struggled to hear him. The walls around his...
by mcophilly | Jan 17, 2025 | SMI 2024, SMI Student Blog
Do You Have a Dentist? Morgan R. - SMI 2024 “Do you have a dentist?” That simple question lies in the middle of our health screen. Assuming you go through the items in the screen in order, you ask about the dentist somewhere between diabetes risk and food access....
