VIEW ALL PHOTOGRAPHS FROM DR. KEITH'S RECENT MEDICAL MINISTRY IN INDIA

Dear Friends & Partners,

It is a joy for me to share this latest report with you because it features the medical ministry of my brother-in-law, Dr. Keith Thompson. He and my sister, Hannah, have been an integral part of our lives and ministry since the very beginning days of NDI. In fact, even before there was a "New Directions," Hannah worked with us at the YMCA Day Camp and helped us pioneer "Camp Frontier" under the leadership of our older brother, Eddy. (Our younger sister, Judy, was also a part of our Camp staff in the earliest days of ministry.) Hannah traveled with the very first musical ministry team to Mexico known as the "Y-Teen Caravan." It became the precursor of the musical ministry that sovereignly evolved into the "New Directions." And for many years, Keith served as a member of the Board of Directors of NDI.

After their marriage, Keith and Hannah spent a summer of medical ministry in Africa – an experience which forever confirmed their passion for medical missions. As a result, they continued to have an extensive medical mission ministry abroad while running a very large and successful practice in America. Since Hannah is a gifted Bible teacher, she would accompany Keith on most of his medical missions to teach the Bible – especially to women. Across the years they traveled and ministered in Haiti, Africa, Russia, China, India, Nepal, South America – virtually every country I minister in – and more!

 

Recently Keith retired from a wonderful medical practice in Thomasville, NC. After turning 70, he now gives even more time to minister medically and spiritually in America and around the world as the Lord leads him and Hannah. I know you will be blessed by this brief report on his recent medical ministry journey to India. Without his annual medical trips to India, we could not have seen the advancements spiritually and medically at the Holy Palace Hospital. He has become a great friend, partner and mentor to Dr. Rai – just as Hannah has to his wife, Mary (pictured together, above right). Their faithful involvement there is another great example of the power of long-term partnerships! In addition to going over themselves annually, they have also recruited other doctors and medical people to go along to work at Holy Palace Hospital and help enhance and advance the medical facility. So we are so thankful to all those who have invested their time, love, compassion and medical expertise in Holy Palace and their rural medical ministry to the poorest of the poor.

Please take a moment to click on these latest reports by Dr. Rai. I know you will be blessed and challenged as you see something of the extensive ministry they are having medically and spiritually!

- Medical Ministry
- Nurses' Training Program
- Mobile Clinics
- Children's Ministry
- Church Ministry

In the love and compassion of Jesus,
J.L.

PS: Since one of our dear friends and partner from Manipur, India, visited with Dr. Keith at Holy Palace, we will be featuring our partnership ministry with him in our next report. I know you will be blessed and encouraged since this partnership also goes back over two decades to the "Manipur Tribal Singers." Be watching for the report next week on Pastor Soia from Manipur in Northeast India.

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