Missionary to visit Third Presbyterian
Faith Shingledecker, a missionary with World Gospel Mission in Bomet, Kenya, will visit Third Presbyterian Church, 425 Union St., Uniontown, June 1-3. Shingledecker, who works at the Tenwek Hospital Laboratory, will appear with the 2006 Third Presbyterian Kenya team at 7 p.m. on June 1 in the chapel. Shingledecker will present Sunday at 10 a.m. in the sanctuary.
Born and raised as a missionary child in Burundi, Africa, Shingledecker earned a bachelor’s degree in pre-med biology from Asbury College and medical technologist certification from the Good Samaritan School of Medical Technology.
After serving as a short-term missionary at Tenwek Hospital in 1976-77, she was appointed to WGM and has served for 27 years in Kenya.
After a period of homeland missionary assignment, she will return to her duties at Tenwek Hospital, one of the largest Protestant mission hospitals in Kenya, which began as a clinic in 1935.
Tenwek, working under the motto “We treat, Jesus heals,’ is located in rural Kenya, 140 miles west of Nairobi, in the fertile highlands of the Bomet district.
In addition to being the primary hospital for the area’s one million people, it is also a referral hospital that receives patients from other parts of the country.
Each year, Tenwek’s staff treats more than 10,000 inpatients and 70,000 outpatients. In addition to the hospital, Tenwek’s programs include the Tenwek School of Nursing, the L. Nelson Bell Chaplaincy School, a medical intern training program, the Community Health and Development Department of Tenwek and INFAMED, the hospital’s medicine residency program.
World Gospel Mission is an interdenominational missionary organization with more than 300 missionaries and support staff serving on six continents. Headquarters is in Marion, Ind.