by smiphilly | Jul 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
On our first afternoon up here, Pastor Jason from Urban Hope introduced us to some of the amazing stories of conversion and faithfulness that have happened in the church over the past years. In thinking about our following three weeks, he challenged us to do like...
by smiphilly | Jul 17, 2013 | Uncategorized
To paraphrase a friend here at SMI who is keen on observing the characteristics of our society, “We live in a society..” which values education in academic settings only. What I mean by this is that the majority of our learning as a culture is limited to...
by smiphilly | Jul 16, 2013 | SMI 2013
We were coming to the close of the opening set of praise when the pastor of the local church I had been assigned to for the course of SMI called out to those who were in desperate need of Jesus. He asked those who felt called to come to the front of the altar, kneel...
by smiphilly | Jul 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
Going door to door can get monotone and ritualistic. I get in a routine knocking on people’s doors and asking them if they want us to screen them for diabetes or hypertension. I then proceed into their home if they welcome our team in, and I take their diagnostics as...
by smiphilly | Jul 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
One of the important things I had learned to do this past year, as a first year medical student, is to be efficient. I had one-hour lunch breaks where I needed to rush eating before changing into scrubs for anatomy lab; I would time my workout sessions to be 35...
