To Africa with Love : A Bush Doc's Story

by Foulkes, James, M.D.; Lacy, Joe

• ISBN13: 9781577363507
• ISBN10: 1577363507
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-08-30
• Publisher: Providence House Pub

Summary

In "To Africa with Love," modern medical missionary Jim Foulkes shares his amazing adventures of treating near-fatal snake bites, hunting big game to feed hospital patients, and seeing God work miracles in the wild African bush. In this powerful memoir, Jim recounts conducting surgery under primitive conditions, becoming lost in the dangerous bush, being ensnared in a poacher's deadly trap, and dealing with heartbreaking loss. Through it all, however, the guiding and protective hand of the Lord is evident. From relating his miraculous escape from a herd of stampeding elephants to winning souls for Christ, the bush doc affirms that God is faithful and good. ?'To Africa with Love' overflows with emotion and the evident power of God's Holy Spirit working in and through Jim...You?re in for a treat, you?re in for a blessing, and you will be challenged to the depth of your soul.? from the foreword by Franklin Graham President/CEO, Samaritan's Purse Billy Graham Evangelistic Assoc.

Author Biography

James Foulkes practiced medicine in Africa for thirty-eight years. A native of Lima, Ohio, he graduated from Asbury College in Kentucky and attended medical school at Ohio State University. Foulkes served his general internship at Mt. Carmel Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, and his surgical residency at Akron General Hospital.

In 1959, Foulkes and his family were stationed at Mukinge Hospital in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) under the direction of the South Africa General Mission (later called the Africa Evangelical Fellowship and now merged with SIM). For almost four decades, he provided the people of the region with medical care, friendship, and the good news of Jesus Christ.

Foulkes retired and settled in North Carolina in 1997. He was honored the next year by the World Medical Mission and received the prestigious Award for Excellence in Medical Missions, conveyed by Franklin Graham. He has received other awards, including the Alumni Achievement Award from the Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health and induction into the Lima City Schools Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame.

He and his wife, Martha, who served as a nurse at Mukinge for more than twenty-five years, live in Boone, North Carolina. They have three daughters and eight grandchildren. Jim and Martha Foulkes have used their extensive expertise on short-term mission trips, including trips back to Zambia where their daughter, Gwen, and her husband are raising a second-generation missionary family.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD by Franklin Graham	ix
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	xi
INTRODUCTION by Foulkes Girls	xiii
Joe Lacy
PART I
One Wafwa: A Poor Start	5	(6)
Two The Makings of a Missionary	11	(8)
Three Off to the Army and Asbury	19	(6)
Four The Holy Spirit Steps In	25	(6)
Five Med School	31	(6)
Six Love and Marriage	37	(6)
Seven "So Send I You"	43	(8)
PART II
Eight Mukinge Welcome	51	(8)
Nine Initiation to Sleeping Sickness	59	(6)
Ten Bush Medicine	65	(10)
Eleven David	75	(10)
Twelve A Home of Their Own	85	(8)
PART III
Thirteen Moving Adventures	93	(6)
Fourteen Daily Life in the Bush	99	(10)
Fifteen Touching Leprosy	109	(8)
Sixteen Jumbo Hunter...or Hunted?	117	(6)
Seventeen Danger in the Bush	123	(8)
Eighteen Battling Dark Forces	131	(12)
PART IV
Nineteen Lost!	143	(12)
Twenty Faith at Home and Abroad	155	(8)
Twenty-one Healthcare, African-style	163	(10)
Twenty-two Marilynn in Mission	173	(6)
Twenty-three Tragedy and Comfort	179	(8)
Twenty-four A Faithful End to the Good Fight	187	(6)
Twenty-five A Time to Mourn	193	(8)
PART V
Twenty-six Martha	201	(6)
Twenty-seven All Healing Is God's	207	(12)
Twenty-eight AIDS Comes to Mukinge	219	(8)
Twenty-nine Fast Forward to Good-bye, Zambia	227	(4)
EPILOGUE	231	(7)
SELECTED READING	238