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...
